I don't get it: The richies are saying they don't NEED the tax cuts, but Rethuglicans are still g

[Hawkeye-X]

giving it to them.

WHY?

Any tax cuts I'd get would be immediately donated to the Democratic Party or any progressive groups advocating removing the Reagan/Bush/Chimp tax cuts for the uberwealthy if I had that much of a tax cut.

I'm plenty rich enough, I want to give back my share back to the government.

If I was rich. I'm not. I'm working part time and on SSDI (have full bennies) and I hate it when I dont get my COLA and my pay sucks enough and I'm already in debt settlement. Any extra money that I get would be a welcome bonus. I have a damaged car that I managed to knock off about $200 from my deductible because I have a good business relationship with the auto body shop. I have tuition to pay for my son to get the best possible education. Wife, son and I are planning to visit my sister's family in Israel in less than 3 years and we haven't started saving money (For 3 of us, it's about $3500 in tickets alone, plus not counting whatever we need for 10 days in Israel). I know we will get a decent tax refund next year (We got one this year thanks to my kid, but it went to the IRS to pay off existing debts - literally wiped all but $35 owed to the IRS).

It's just that I'm not seeing any RICH people clamoring that they *NEED* the tax refunds - they just don't - those that do needs to be investigated, indicted and sent to prison. They want people to buy their products - and in order to do that, the people has to have money first. The tax cut for the middle class made permanent would certainly help. The tax cut for the rich certainly does not help since it takes another $600 billion in deficit money just so they can have *MORE* money.

Health insurance is another story..... and that's for another day.

[Big Blue Marble]

1. Remember the Republicans want to starve the government.

Giving the money to the rich is just a secondary benefit.

[tabatha]

2. Yes, to get rid of SS.

That has been their aim all along. Get the government into such bad shape that SS has to go.

Bush has always wanted to get rid of SS. That is why he bankrupted the govt.

[alsame]

7. Not just SS - all gov't and social programs. Privatize absolutely

everything, from public schools to roads. There's lots of money to be made if the gov't provides nothing.

[fasttense]

3. You are not seeing the rich clamoring because they are not talking to you.

The 300 or so people who run our gubermint are whispering in the ears of their political tools.

We are not privy to their demands because they want nothing from us except to let them have their way and pay their bills.

[nunyabidness]

4. The "RICH" people don`t need the cuts, the not-as-rich Republicans need them.

They don`t have as much money. They`re "faux" rich. So they need help staying "rich".

[Booster]

5. Because the Repugs in Wash DC are rich? I dunno.

[louis-t]

6. It takes no guts at all to say "I'm rich, I think I'll

give myself a big, fat, tax cut." It takes a lot of guts to say "I'm rich, I can pay my share."

[StarsInHerHair]

8. I agree, they clearly haven't gone hungry over it either

but the poor & the middle class probably have gone without & they shouldn't be lumped in with the rich. Line item veto the W cuts to the wealthy

[MrsCorleone]

9. For the most part, rich = multinational corps. Their primary goal: tax credits, deductions,

and subsidies.

The $400/person tax credit for tax year 2009 wasn't shit compared to the billions and billions in breaks given to the transnationals. Some of the most profitable multinational companies paid an effective tax rate of 0 - 2%, and some even received a god damned refund of millions, and in some cases billions, from the Treasury. Damn welfare queens!

The "rich" so often spoken of, the real base of the Republican Party, are really the huge transnationals. They have billions of dollars at stake. So much so, that it is imperative to tear down those that threaten their gravy train.