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If we allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, it will raise taxes on everyone.
They're not the same thing. We can increase revenue, without raising taxes. I agree a revenue increase is needed, but raising taxes is the wrong way to make that happen and probably won't work.
Allowing job creation will increase revenues.
You realize of course that taxing consumption is very anti-business, because it will result in people spending less money on things that businesses make.
You also realize that one of the "9s" in St. Herman's plan is a consumption tax, right?
Why couldn't Obama allow the trans-can pipeline to begin construction. The tax revenue from that would surpass a 1% tax hike.
A little old, but you get the point: Companies hold record $837B in cash, yet won't hire workers - USATODAY.com Companies hold record $837B in cash, yet won't hire workers
Yes. And rather than letting them expire on the upper brackets while preserving them for everyone else, that is EXACTLY what the GOP has guaranteed will hapen.
Right and one of the 9's is a 9% income tax. I know, I know, that would mean that more people would have more money in their pocket to spend on stuff and, well, we can't have that. It would make too much sense. Right?
Most excellent of you to print this again. I am sick and tired of the right wing crap that if we lowered taxes on corporations then they would a) have more money, and b) would then hire more workers. The fact is they are swimming in damn money and they are NOT hiring workers. The premise of them needing more money is a damn LIE.
That ain't gonna happen. When they expire, everyone's taxes will go up.
Well, there's States Rights that you guys are always going on about. From my understanding, Nebraska isn't too thrilled with how it cuts through there.
If he did allow it, you'd just be complaining that it's a handout to the Unions (because who do think is going to build the pipeline?)
That's exactly my point. Rather than letting some people's taxes go up, they've guaranteed that everyone's will.
That's exactly my point. Rather than letting some people's taxes go up, they've guaranteed that everyone's will.
That ain't gonna happen. When they expire, everyone's taxes will go up.
The Nebraska state government? Or a buncha treehuggers that happen to live in Nebraska?
"Many Nebraskans, including myself, support the pipeline, but we are opposed to the route that goes through the Sandhills and over the Ogallala aquifer," Heineman explained. "We ask: Why would you risk an oil spill or leak over the aquifer when TransCanada already has a pipeline route on the eastern side of Nebraska?"
But this isn't class warfare, oh no. It's only class warfare when the middle class, who buy the way, BUILT THIS ENTIRE ****ING COUNTRY, do it.
The Governor of Nebraska:
Nebraska May Play Key Role In Canada Pipeline Battle : NPR
The Governor of Nebraska, by the way, is a Republican.
Dave Heineman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You've got to be crazy if you think Republicans are the ones guaranteeing that everyone's taxes are going to go up. Republicans brought spending cuts to the table, Democrats brought over a trillion dollars in tax hikes. Democrats want as large and powerful a government as possible.
The middle class didn't do all alone. Someone had to put up the jack to pay for it. Gee! Where did that money possibly come from?
Fine, re-route the ****ing thing.
Either way, though, this is yet another example of government standing in the way of job creation.
And the nation is fast catching on to the reality that the GOP is there to serve only the wealthy and will hold 90% of this nation hostage to serve their corporate masters.
Great re-route it. In the meantime, is Obama just supposed to say "No, **** Nebraska. We're just going to build it there anyway."
More brain dead supply side talking points :roll:[...] Allowing job creation will increase revenues.
True, but you didn't see Rockefeller wielding a hammer.
If you think the rich don't need the middle class (as TurtleDude does), you are sorely mistaken.
More brain dead supply side talking points :roll:
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