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Elections have consequences, so THE REPUGS and their defense of the 1%
They get everything they want: higher taxes, defense cuts, and the public will lay the blame on Republicans.
Elections have consequences, so THE REPUGS and their defense of the 1%
Ann Coulter Says GOP Should Give In To Obama On Taxes: 'We Lost The Election'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...=Daily%20Brief
Top Two Percent To GOP: Tax Us
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...=Daily%20Brief
Link to defense cuts? I highly doubt that happens.
Dems are just as much in bed (actually a little less) with the military industrial complex as the Republicans are, so I doubt defense cuts happen even though a lot of Dems want them.
saying defense cuts like it's a bad thing
Israel
The MIC, like Wall St, is untouchable.
It's not like the "fiscal cliff" is a Dem invention. At some point not that long ago, the GOP agreed to this deal.
I'd say it's several times as untouchable. There's a growing consensus among Americans about how unethical and corrupt Wall Street is, and we've seen recent bills like the Dodd-Frank Act passed to regulate Wall Street.
Meanwhile, there is only a handful of people in this country who have any idea how out of control our defense spending is while most Americans, both red team and blue team, have been brainwashed into thinking America needs to spend as much as it does on defense because of an Islamic boogeyman (like every Jew I know who's otherwise liberal). The military industrial complex and Big Pharma are the two industries that have both sides of Washington completely in their back pockets w/ barely any Americans having a clue about how corrupt they are.
figuring that Obama would be a lame duck by now, so and would the Democratic majority in the Senate. didn't work out that way.
GOP has two options: meet the President halfway, in which case taxes go up. Or, give him the finger, in which case taxes still go up, and the public blames it for the ensuing mess.
First option appears to be less unpalatable.
writing's on the wall when Tom Coburn says stuff like this:
Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) said Wednesday that if Congress had to raise taxes, he’d prefer that it was done by raising tax rates as opposed to putting new limits on tax breaks and deductions. His comments were notable because they are starkly at odds with Republican leaders.
“Personally, I know we have to raise revenue,” Mr. Coburn said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I don’t really care which way we do it. Actually, I would rather see the rates go up than do it the other way because it gives greater chance to reform the tax code and broaden the base in the future.”
He made clear, though, that however taxes were raised, “it’s going to be a negative drag on the economy.”
Unemployment and underemployment both jumped in November according to Gallup. Unemployment back over 8% and underemployment over 17%.
Both sides spend so much on campaigning. Makes sense.
Obama's Tax Plan Would Spare Many Affluent Families
President Obama's insistence that marginal tax rates rise for families making more than $250,000 has convinced millions of affluent Americans that they are likely to be writing larger checks to the government next year.
But many of those families have no reason to fret.
A close look at the president's plan shows that a large majority of families making up to $300,000 - as well as hundreds of thousands of families with even larger incomes - would not pay taxes at a higher marginal rate.
Because the complexity of the tax code makes it difficult to draw clean lines, they are the beneficiaries of choices the administration has made to ensure that families earning less than $250,000 do not pay higher rates.
Some of those affluent households still would pay higher taxes next year under other parts of the president's tax plan and increases imposed by the Affordable Care Act, but not under the centerpiece, the part most frequently promote by the president and most bitterly opposed by Congressional Republicans.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/12/07...0010E7A17?f=19
I'm rooting for the Repugs to push us over the cliff
and THEN
shutdown the govt over the deficit limit.
I'm rooting for Boutons to get run over by a frac truck.
trucked and untruckable, tbh.
CC and TB jerking each other off
sure, roll all financial regs and tax rates back to 1980
abolish captial gains, all income taxed as regular/earned income
corporations to stop group insurance and pay the same amt as salary directly to employees
mortgage interest deduction capped beyond 2x the avg house price, indexed to region and inflation
kill the carried interest loophole
1% sales tax on all financial trades
Last edited by boutons_deux; 12-06-2012 at 05:50 PM.
^speaking of falling off a cliff
If you got elected I would assassinate you myself if someone didn't beat me to it.
typical right-winger/TV-show, murder solves all your problems. GFY
Boutons needs to learn to avoid the spunk in wing-nut circle jerks....
repugs for nominating a clown as their presidential candidate that never had any chance to beat obama
Watching the republicans come to terms with the fact that they have zero leverage in this negotiation is pure schadenfreude considering what petulant obstructionist es they've been as a collective for the last 4 years.
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