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Democrats may stop Bush-era tax cuts for wealthy from expiring

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Democrats are considering a plan to delay tax hikes on the wealthy for two years because the economic recovery is slow and they fear getting crushed in November’s election.

It could mean a big reprieve for families earning $250,000 and above annually.

President George W. Bush’s tax cuts will expire at the end of the year unless Congress acts to delay their sunset.

Some Democrats are now arguing forcefully that a delay is a win-win plan that would help the federal budget without hurting the economy.

Democrats may stop Bush-era tax cuts for wealthy from expiring - TheHill.com

That ought to set some hair on fire. They admit tax cuts help the economy at least.
 
Hahah, a big reprieve for families earning over 250,000 dollars. Yeah, that's great. Let's lighten the tax burden on the group not suffering. What about the middle class? Do we even care about those bastards anymore? Or have we abandoned all pretense and have admitted that the government does nothing but serve the elite and new aristocracy?
 
Do we even care about those bastards anymore?
I don't understand all the crying. Are you not getting your $7 a week as part of the Obama "tax cuts for all?" That's McDonald's for "free" once a week! Who needs a job when you can make those rich bastards and small businesses pay for McDonald's?
 
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The Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts was a statement signed by roughly 450 economists, including ten of the twenty four American Nobel Prize Laureates alive at the time, in February 2003 who urged the U.S. President George W. Bush not to enact the 2003 tax cuts; seeking and sought to gather public support for the position. The statement was printed as a full-page ad in The New York Times and released to the public through the Economic Policy Institute. According to the statement, the 450 plus economists who signed the statement believe that the 2003 Bush tax cuts will increase inequality and the budget deficit, decreasing the ability of the U.S. government to fund essential services, while failing to produce economic growth

http://www.epi.org/page/-/old/stmt/2003/statement_signed.pdf
 
Ugh, please don't do this.
 
:fyi: Raising taxes during a recession is stupid.


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I think it's just a head fake. Some of them want a CYA in the upcoming election.
 
Hahah, a big reprieve for families earning over 250,000 dollars. Yeah, that's great. Let's lighten the tax burden on the group not suffering. What about the middle class? Do we even care about those bastards anymore? Or have we abandoned all pretense and have admitted that the government does nothing but serve the elite and new aristocracy?

Keeping the tax burden what it is is not lightening the tax burden; this is a failure of distinction I see way too often. And anyways, if the government are supposed to be "serving the aristocracy", they sure are doing a crappy job of it, considering the hugely disproportional share of the tax burden the wealthy* already have.

*not that $250,000 a year would necessarily make one "wealthy" by any means.
 
Keeping the tax burden what it is is not lightening the tax burden; this is a failure of distinction I see way too often. And anyways, if the government are supposed to be "serving the aristocracy", they sure are doing a crappy job of it, considering the hugely disproportional share of the tax burden the wealthy* already have.

*not that $250,000 a year would necessarily make one "wealthy" by any means.

I don't know, they already took a bunch of my money and gave it to the rich ass banks and lenders who caused this mess in the first place. Seems to me that they're doing a fine job at it. And a quarter of a million dollars a year makes you wealthy. You may not be stupid filthy rich like the true aristocracy, but you're damned well off.
 
I don't know, they already took a bunch of my money and gave it to the rich ass banks and lenders who caused this mess in the first place. Seems to me that they're doing a fine job at it. And a quarter of a million dollars a year makes you wealthy. You may not be stupid filthy rich like the true aristocracy, but you're damned well off.

Man, most of the people pulling $250k a year aren't evil maniacal bankers.
They are small business owners.

Direct your anger towards the political class, we don't need this income class warfare.
It's dumb.
 
Hahah, a big reprieve for families earning over 250,000 dollars. Yeah, that's great. Let's lighten the tax burden on the group not suffering. What about the middle class? Do we even care about those bastards anymore? Or have we abandoned all pretense and have admitted that the government does nothing but serve the elite and new aristocracy?

What do you suggest they do for the lower income groups? another 24 dollars a month 'rebate' that you have to claim on your taxes (and since you saw it in the form of a 12 dollar a paycheck increase you probably didnt 'see' it at all)?
 
Canceling unemployment extensions in a recession is stupid. Especially on the horizon of a double dip.

Indeed. In a recession like this, if the government is going to take my money and do something with it, they should do something productive. Not bailing out "too big to fail" jerks or rewarding the banks for having behaved so improperly as to crash the system. But rather public works projects. Could of had a real, bonafide, high speed rail system linking the major cities of America. New York to Chicago in a few hours sort of thing. Could have taken the internet as public utility and laid the backbone of a high speed internet system. Could have hired people to start tearing down Detroit since no one lives there. All these things which would have made jobs, but no. Instead my money went to the banks and the lenders and the companies which were "too big to fail". In short, it went to the rich. And now we're still not even talking about proper ways to get out of this recession. We're not talking about temporary public works projects to take a load off unemployment till the private sector could recover. We're talking about tax breaks to people making over a quarter of a million dollars a year. Nice, real nice.
 
According to the statement, the 450 plus economists who signed the statement believe that the 2003 Bush tax cuts will increase inequality and the budget deficit, decreasing the ability of the U.S. government to fund essential services, while failing to produce economic growth
Wow 450 plus economists were wrong, thanks for sharing! In the years since the tax cuts, the deficit decreased and the economy grew.

Now is this the part where you try to blame tax cuts on the loose monetary policy, non-existent standards for mortgage qualifications - the buying and selling of repackaged trash that spurred the current meltdown?
 
Man, most of the people pulling $250k a year aren't evil maniacal bankers.
They are small business owners.

Direct your anger towards the political class, we don't need this income class warfare.
It's dumb.

We already have it with the War on the Middle Class. Damn...Fox News should hire me, I'm awesome at this ****.
 
Canceling unemployment extensions in a recession is stupid. Especially on the horizon of a double dip.

Do you get what you just said? Cancelling unemployment extensions...as if it was some sort of in place expectation. The correct verbage would be "defeat proposed extensions of unemployment checks" or "extend MORE government bailout dollars because the unemployment rate still blows".

Where is the effort to reduce unemployment? I mean...other than creating 400,000 temp census jobs...
 
Now is this the part where you try to blame tax cuts on the loose monetary policy, non-existent standards for mortgage qualifications - the buying and selling of repackaged trash that spurred the current meltdown?

Nope, that's the argument which demonstrates that some amount of regulation is necessary.
 
You are incorrect, corporations are posting very good earnings, they are not in danger of falling under. Weakening consumer spending even more is far more dangerous at this point as alot of economists agree.
 
And they are spending...
 
Could of had a real, bonafide, high speed rail system linking the major cities of America. New York to Chicago in a few hours sort of thing. Could have taken the internet as public utility and laid the backbone of a high speed internet system. Could have hired people to start tearing down Detroit since no one lives there. All these things which would have made jobs, but no. Instead my money went to the banks and the lenders and the companies which were "too big to fail".
I see. We should have let the financial system collapse, brought the lending industry to screaming halt, and encumbered all related transactions to build some trains that people won't use and to give them faster porn downloads to pass all the free time they'd be having without jobs.

Stupid rich people!
 
I don't know, they already took a bunch of my money and gave it to the rich ass banks and lenders who caused this mess in the first place. Seems to me that they're doing a fine job at it. And a quarter of a million dollars a year makes you wealthy. You may not be stupid filthy rich like the true aristocracy, but you're damned well off.

First off...I am not in favor of the bank bailouts. second...Im about to make a huge assumption...

But My guess is they PROBABLY didnt take a bunch of "your" money and give it to bankers and lenders (who have pretty much paid most of it back). Just curious...how much did you actually pay in taxes and how much did you get back? ANd while I dont agree with the bank bailout program the intent wasnt a government giveaway it was an attempt to keep banks solvent and continue to allow people like you to take out loans for cars, homes, etc.

The tax cuts you are bitching about are intended to keep investors in the markets and to stimulate economic growth. We tend to not sleep on our cash...we tend to want to see it grow. Without confidence or with expectation of greater taxes, most investors that make more than $250k are holding off...securing their existing investments...taking a wait and see approach.

We arent talking about economic dealings that impact the change in your ashtray and seat cushions here. This is big boy economy talk.
 
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