one question only for bu$h* tax cuts...how do the republicans propose to pay for them?

[spanone]

now that they are suddenly so fiscally responsible

i suspect they have no answer

[el_bryanto]

1. They are going to pay for them by gutting government programs

That's the answer. They just don't people to think about what specific cuts they are actually going to make, I suspect (i.e. they don't want to go from saving the Bush Tax Cuts for the very wealthy to explaining that they are cutting school lunch programs).

Bryant

[HughBeaumont]

2. Magic Debt Fairies.

They're not stopping the wars.

They won't tax the wealthy. They won't close their loopholes.

Businesses aren't hiring.

Unbridled capitalism will likely need to be bailed out again.

They have no plan. To believe that tax cuts for the rich will somehow all work out, just like Big Business being able to regulate itself and Free Trade will lead to economic prosperity and higher paying jobs here, you have to believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

Republicans - Spendthrifts for the rich and M.I.C., Deficit Hawks for everyone and everything else.

Funny how that works, doesn't it?

[BzaDem]

3. You didn't get the memo? "Tax cuts pay for themselves!"

:sarcasm"

[MattBaggins]

7. I am no economist but;

if the tax rate is set at 10% and an individual make s a thousand dollars, they pay $100 in taxes.
If the tax rate were lowered to 5% wouldn't they have to make $2000?

But I'm just a liberal idiot who doesn't understand complex fuzzy math.

[baldguy]

8. Actually, that's an almost direct quote from Mitch McConnell.

No :sarcasm: tag needed.

[HopeHoops]

4. Kill Social Security, kill Medicare, kill Head Start, kill, kill, kill - wait, that sounds familiar!

[JoePhilly]

5. Tax cuts are FREE with every purchase of a congressman or senator ...

So CEOs, don't wait, buy your congressman or senator today and get your FREE tax cuts. Tax cut benefits can be transferred or extended to family members of the obscenely wealthy.

NOTE: This offer not available to the low or middle class.

[MattBaggins]

6. Cut SS

They intend to cut SS without adjusting SS taxes. They intend to keep the money to give to Haliburton.

[daa]

9. Silly you

you don't "pay" for tax cuts, they are just tax cuts. And now that the repugs have been elected, via Dearth Vader, "Reagan proved deficits don't matter". Also via Dearth Vader, "Tea Party, go fuck yourself".

[Wounded Bear]

10. Simple answer....they don't...

They didn't pay for them when they were first enacted. Why should they start now?

:shrug: