Screw it. Just repeal the Bush tax cuts for EVERYBODY

[LuckyTheDog]

The Bush tax cuts were a very bad idea. Let's just get rid of them -- ALL of them.

[gateley]

1. Okay. Seems fair to me! nt

[Diamonique]

2. I can work with that.

[Donnachaidh]

3. no problem with that.

Cut all of them. Including any corporate ones he pushed through.

[malaise]

4. The fugging tax cut bill sunsets

No need to repeal - the fugging Rethugs passed a bill that expires - let it fucking expire.

[HughBeaumont]

8. And more importantly, let it be on THEM.

Oh, I forgot. They control the message.

[Pirate Smile]

5. The justification for not letting them expire for the middle class and below is that we've

had a decade where, except for the wealthy, people's incomes have either stayed the same or declined while the costs of food, fuel, health care, college, etc. have gone up, up, up over the past decade.

[glitch]

9. +1 nt

[Travis_0004]

11. Tax brackets are tied to the COL index

[bluestateguy]

6. Yeah. Good luck with that.

If I had a time machine to go back to 2001 before the taxcuts were made law, I could agree with you.

Actually, I kind of agree with you now, but you will have a real hard time convincing a teacher or an autoworker who makes $45,000 to pay more in taxes. Then we won't be able to have the debate about taxes that we want to have (that the rich should pay more) because the focus will be all about the mean old Obama raising taxes on working people.

And remember, it's not just the Bush taxcuts from 2001 that are due to expire, but also the Obama taxcuts from 2009.

[ZombieHorde]

7. Then pass tax cuts for the poor and middle class; call these tax cuts

the Obama tax cuts.

[lib_wit_it]

13. Seems obvious, doesn't it? Too bad most Dems are either unwilling or unable to oppose our

corporate masters.

[MadBadger]

10. Yea...Good luck selling that one.

Politically its an awful move

[LuckyTheDog]

15. Oh, I know that

And, it'll never happen. But I think a lot of progressives who feel this way ought to be saying so. Otherwise, the president looks like he's on the "far left" of the issue, when he isn't,

[scheming daemons]

12. I hope the GOP filibusters the attempt to preserve the cuts for those under $250,000

Then the Bush tax cuts expire.... the GOP gets the blame for "raising the taxes on the middle class".


Win-win.

[Jack_DeLeon]

14. Percentage wise the poorer get a higher tax increase if the tax cuts go away...

Lowest bracket goes from 10% to 15%, thats a 50% increase in taxes.

Highest bracket goes from 36% to 39%, much smaller tax increase.

[ThomWV]

16. Democrats are not 'Repealing' anything, Bush's cuts are "expiring"

as they were intended to do.

[qb]

17. I prefer class warfare.

Keep the middle class cuts and tax the hell out of the bastards who got us into this mess.