PatriotsReign

Ok all you dummies who actually think it is.

So if we end the foolish 2% reduction on social security taxes, it WILL NOT BE a tax increase.

Same goes for Bush's capital gains tax cuts.

NEITHER one would be a tax increase because both were TEMPORARY tax cuts.

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Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Go tell it to Grover Norquist and all the Republican lawmakers who signed his pledge.

Grover Norquist: Any Compromise On Bush Tax Cuts Violates My Pledge | TPMDC

BrickPat

It may not be a tax increase but it is the functional equivalent given that we will be paying more taxes than we have since before the 'temporary' cut was enacted.

The wordplay semantics game is a weak justification anyway. "You're not getting screwed because you were getting screwed just as bad before the cut". That makes it ok...

patsfan13

Well it's been temporary for 10 years, so the rate people will play next year if Obama gets his way will be the highest people have paid for 10 years.


SS is underfunded as it is so the cut in SS taxes is just causing it to go bankrupt sooner.

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wistahpatsfan

Raise taxes + Reduce spending = Fastest way to reduce deficit.

I thought that's what Teabaggers were all about?

Could it be the Hard Right wants to lower the deficit more slowly than possible?

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wistahpatsfan

If we followed the Teabaggers off the cliff, we'd understand that every time we DON'T impliment a temporary tax cut, we're raising taxes.

Oooops! We just raised taxes because we ended the Bush tax cuts!

Oooops! We just did it again by not cutting taxes again today!!

Oooops! We just did it again!!

STOP RAISING TAXES!!!!!

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Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Are you sure about that, 13? Both of them? 10 years? Really?

patsfan13

Raising marginal rates = less economic growth = less revenue = higher deficits.


The pubs have proposed lower rates of spending in the House budget. They were rejected by the Reid senate and Obama.

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patsfan13

I understand that the SS cut is different that the "Bush Tax Cut".

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Oh good...then you also understand that it's not been "temporary for 10 years" as you tried to pass it off as being, right?