Dear GOP: We are not creating new taxes for the rich. We are simply ending their free ride

[LynneSin]

I am so sick and tired of republicans & the idiots that follow them claim that Obama is imposing 'New Taxes' because he is possibly allowing the tax cuts to the wealthy expire.


First, anyone who has even a teeny-tiny iota of a brain can see that allowing this to happen WILL NOT AFFECT 98% of all Americans in this country. So for all you dingbats out there blindly following the ilks like Faux News, Glenn Beckkk and dingbat Sarah Palin, all you are doing is allowing THEM to keep their money. In affect THEY are using you to help THEM keep wealthy. And even then they have the audacity to charge $200 to join them at a 9/11 hate fest. AND while you are helping them to KEEP their money you are also helping yourself to NOT keep any of it. You'll follow these idiots so blindly that you'll allow the goverment to take away your health, your savings and your ability to make a living. It's all fun and dandy to protest healthcare claims but just wait until you have some sort of traumatic life changing health crisis. Maybe you'll have insurance to cover the costs or maybe your insurance will think that pimple on your ass was a pre-condition that would allow them to deny the bulk of your coverage. Maybe you'll still have your job next year or maybe your job will be outsourced and you'll be force to make ends meet with just what is in your bank account and a $7.50/hr job at Wal-Mart.

Second, these are NOT new taxes. Bush saw we had a surplus of money under Clinton and instead of putting it aside for a rainy day when we might need the money - he instead decided to give the money away to the wealthy cronies that helped to get him elected. Mind you, no one wins an election with 2% of the vote (the percent of americans who actually benefitted from the tax cuts) but they know there are enough stupid people out there that can buy into this bullshit 'No New Tax' screed to make these idiots think somehow they will be affected and then they'll vote help keep the wealthy even wealthier and the government to take away any programs that might actually help these idiots save some money too.


But seriously these are NOT NEW TAXES. This is simply an end to a program that had a time limit. We allowed the Wealthy to ride the ride but the ride is done so get the heck off the free ride.

[kentuck]

1. You are correct.

The Repubs talk about standing tax policy. The Clinton tax rates were standing tax policy.

The Bush taxcuts were passed as temporary. They were never meant to be permanent.

Standing tax policy is still the Clinton rates.

[mediaman007]

2. In fact, the difference in the federal budget was covered

by borrowing and using Social Security premiums. Where did our Social Security go? Right into the pockets of the wealthy.

[lunatica]

3. It's all spin

[denverbill]

4. Correction. 'We' aren't doing anything. This is the Republicans 'tax increase'.

The Republican Congress voted for this and a Republican President signed the law. If they wanted it to be permanent they could have voted for it to be permanent. If it expires, they have nobody to blame but themselves.

[Jensen]

5. Your header should be Tweeted 1BILLION times, yes with a B!!!

Can we??? K&R

[tularetom]

6. The rich had 10 years to create jobs with the money they saved in taxes

Where are the fucking jobs?

99% of them are in China. They sure aren't here.

If trickle down was gonna trickle down it would have trickled down by now.

[Brickbat]

8. Hell yes.

:thumbsup:

[kentuck]

9. There was a link last night..

that showed the entire taxcuts were invested overseas? Anyone remember that post?

[kentuck]

11. here is the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=436985&mesg_id=436985

[HughBeaumont]

7. It's a Republican tax INCREASE, as per THEIR cuts in 2001.

Almost as if they knew Bewsh would be well out of office and on his way to a cozy, rewritten legacy by the time the whole shithouse went up in flames.

And trust me on this: with the way their incomes have increased during the Failure Fratster's reign, if we're talking in terms of comparative cost-of-living burden with the rest of the population, I'd hardly say their "Free Ride" is over, even with this measly 8% return.

[Blue Owl]

10. Especially the Koch Brothers

Tax the shit outta those corrupt mofos

[gratuitous]

12. Well, sure, you're absolutely right, but . . .

It's just such a complicated issue, and there's no way to boil it down to something simple, and most people won't sit still for a lengthy explanation, and it doesn't send a tingle up Chris Matthews' leg, and Rush will mock it unmercifully, and America's Assignment Editor Drudge will call it class warfare, and none of the Washington Post columnists or reporters will get invited to the nicer cocktail parties, and George S. doesn't invite people to talk on his show who make less than seven figures a year, and, and, and . . . :crazy:

So it can't be done. Better to just leave the tax cuts in place than take a chance that some wealthy people will pout.

[LynneSin]

14. What's difficult to understand that these were not permament tax cuts

these were nothing more than rewarding the wealthiest members of the population.

[gratuitous]

15. No,no, too complicated

Who remembers anything that happened 'way back in 2001? Ancient history. What matters is the dread prospect of Paris Hilton having to pay an extra three dollars in taxes next year for every hundred dollars she "earns" over a quarter of a million.

Why are you libruls so heartless?

[malaise]

13. K & R