I'll have to pay more damn liberal Obama Democrat taxes . . .

[TomClash]

. . . but that's fine with me! I'm not rich but I'll be paying more. So what? I like his budget plan. I'd rather have a bit less and live in a better community.

Is it so wrong to want to pay a little more so that everyone gets health care, so roads get built and bridges are fixed and foodstuffs aren't poisoned and people get evacuated before volcanoes erupt and hurricanes arrive? Isn't it "Christian" for those who make a fairly good living to help others live a little better? Aren't we all richer if our community as a whole is a little nicer and our nation better?

Class warfare? That's hilarious - as the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Here's a story for those conservatives who think the President's programs are "class warfare." I had a meeting the other day with a businessman who lost his business. His wife lost her job, his creditors are trying to screw him, his insurance company has turned its back on him and he's deep in debt. He said to me at one point, "I am so frustrated I want to put a bullet in someone's head." I told him I hoped he didn't mean me. He laughed and said, "No not you. Them."

Think twice before you mention class war, Repukes.

Sorry, I know it's a rant but I needed to get it off my chest.

[Infomaniac]

1. Me too.

I'd rather pay more in taxes to make sure I could eat a peanut butter sandwich with confidence and give my furkid a can of wet food without worry. If that means to the Repukes that's too Nanny Stateish, so be it. They are free to take their no-regulating-borrow-tax-and-spend-like-war-junkies asses and move somewhere else.

[TomClash]

2. It seems few feel that way

It's a shame and it makes no sense.

[DianeG5385]

3. I'm fine with it!

It's time for those who have been fortunate to be patriotic and help their country through a rough patch.

[TomClash]

4. You should see the reaction I get when I say things like that nt

[zeemike]

5. there is great value in living in a healthy happy well cared for

Community for everyone.
And I don't think I need to post the long list of benefits from it to you.

[TomClash]

6. I know - I only posted a few morsels nt

[kaygore]

7. I agree. It always hurt me when my pay reached the point that

SSI was no longer deducted. Here I was, making a big salary, and a few months into the year, my take home was even bigger. I felt that I was blessed and was willing to have SSI taken out to help the system. The same was true of my tax rate. I feel that those who begrudge those less blessed with a few of their dollars are just greedy. I am so tied of hearing, "I work so hard, why should those lazy bastards on welfare get my money or the poor who are too lazy to work hard."

Too many of those less financially fortunate work two or more back breaking and often highly dangerous jobs. The spring from the media characterizes those less financially stable as losers when often they are the backbone of our country. We need to re-frame the dialog.

[cilla4progress]

8. Good for you!

We have to get this meme out. It's killer that so many in the Christian right are the angriest about helping their neighbors. How do they sleep at night? I mean really.

[TomClash]

10. Their neighbors are the devil

I always say that if you listen to the Christian right close enough all you will her is the Old Testament.

[cilla4progress]

11. It's so simple, isn't it

good / evil; black / white

Simple thinking for simple minds. Look at it that way, and you're done with it, no more worrying your pretty little head with details. You can just clap your hands, dust yourself off, and go on with more important things: being a hypocrite, blindfolding yourself, ignoring truth. Heh.

[MadMaddie]

9. I think most Americans wouldn't mind paying more taxes

if wages kept up with the cost of living. If housing prices and the cost of goods were reasonable being taxed a little bit more wouldn't be an issue.

[eridani]

12. All of us who are significantly better off than average should consider joining Bill Gates Senior

--in joining Responsible Wealth. http://www.faireconomy.org/issues/responsible_wealth

Now that I'm retired, that no longer applies to me, of course. But when I was earning at a higher than average level, I was certainly on board with higher taxation also.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

13. So you make over $125k?