The economy is so bad, millions of Americans will go to debtors prison, starve or freeze if they don’t get their 40 dollar tax cut. He just trotted some of them out for a press conference. (He refused an invitation to go to the Hill to discuss extending the cut for a year.)
One day after the White House asked “working” people to “tell us what your family will give up if your (payroll) taxes increase,” the stories are rolling in, including one from a person who worried about not having enough to pay the cable bill — or continue family pizza nights.
“Our cable internet bill is $49 per month. If we lose this payroll tax cut then we will have to give up either (our) internet access or possibly our ‘Friday Family Pizza’ night. Either way, we will lose something that brings us together as a family,” wrote “K.Z” from Frederick, Maryland.
Another person wrote that $40 will “buy lunch from the cafeteria for almost a whole month for my twins.”
Someone else who “can barely get by now” said taking $40 out of his paycheck “would just about put me under.”
A person from New Mexico said “$40 less a paycheck means I will have to pick between my insulin and the water bill. It means never being able to see my doctor — even though I have insurance.” (Read More)
If they think things are bad now, just wait until Social Security goes under and they retire with nothing.
Just as a reminder, this is Obama’s record on the economy.
Update: Linked by The Other McCain – thanks!
Update 2: WyBlog linked – thanks!
Update 3: Don Surber linked after a wee bit too much egg nog – thanks!
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OK LC, you can stop chastising working Americans for not wanting to give up their cable TV or monthly pizza. It appears John Boehner, under presser from the White House, Republicans, Democrats,Independents, voters, nonvoters, left wing blogs, right wing blogs, worldwide editorials, talk show radio, and most anyone of rational thinking, is caving.
It looks like those greedy bastards that earn a meager living will now be allowed to keep more of their own money. What’s even more disturbing is that all that pizza these ungrateful degenerates will be consuming will prevent the economy from falling more before Nov’s election.
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Well, that’s great, Andy. Except, now the SS trust fund will be without that money, and if you think it will actually be paid for, you’re deluded. Just imagine that this was a GOP proposal: you libs would have been dead set against it.
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In reality Teach, you bring up a good argument and it’s one I’ve been pointing out for along time.
This brings into focus that the GOP continues to want to lower taxes for the wealthy while increasing taxes on working families.
Now, you can argue the pros and cons on that all you want but at the end of the day, it’s something that American working families aren’t likely to vote for.
The thing that’s being brought into the spotlight is that the GOP claims that tax cuts for the rich don’t have to be paid for but any tax breaks for wage earners do.
And so the real truth about “class warfare” has become more apparent on this issue. The GOP wants tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations (remember, they are people too) and as we all know, tax breaks for the bigger oil companies. We saw 30 of the top Fortune 500 companies pay NEGATIVE taxes last year while many of the others paid less than 1%.
So the GOP’s big message is, as you and LC seem to endorse, that they continue to push for tax breaks for everyone except for middle class workers. Or, is this not where you stand?
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You’re such an idiot. We are middle class. I remember George Bush lowering my taxes and your side howling about it. The payroll tax is supposed to fund Social Security, which is already in the red. So you’re on board with taking away funding for Social Security. Whatever happened to everyone having skin in the game?
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Skin in he game? And you’re seriously serious? Good lord, the spin knows no boundaries here does it?
Where is the skin in he game for those Fortune 500 companies? They’re exempt.
I’m unsure why you resort to insults like “you’re such an idiot” but if I fall in that category, my guilt lies in trying to communicate with a bigoted and partisan political hack. It’s been proven that it cannot be done. Skin in the game? What a joke!
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Andy let me get this right. You think the GOP wants Middle Class to pay more taxes. You think that Corporations pay taxes? I like the they are people comment too very leftist. But here is the reality. Corporations NEVER pay taxes. We do! It is built into the cost of everything. A tax on a company merely gets passed on to the consumer. Are you seeing the flaw in jacking up taxes on corporations? NOw as far as the Buffett Rule and letting the rich get off scott free, the top 10% of wage earners pay 70% of income tax. So where is the “fairness”? You want fair? Fine, let’s institute a flat tax. That way everybody pays the same and the deductions offered by YOUR elected officials to buy votes goes away. What you fail to see is that most of what Washington does is designed to BUY votes. Yours and mine. The system has been corrupted by the political class. You are being lied to and YOU believe the lies. Wake up and smell the cronyism.
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Matt, while your “corporations never pay taxes” statement is true in a sense, that shouldn’t eliminate them from “having skin in the game” when it comes to paying for things like military, roads, police, legislators, judges, etc. Your argument seems to exclude them since they’d just pass it on to consumers anyway.
Your argument has merit in certain aspects but it crumbles under closer scrutiny. For one, it eliminates the “supply and demand” element, meaning that the consumers will balk and/or competitors will enter the picture with lower prices. It also doesn’t encourage higher wage earners to invest more into the economy as there is no tax penalty for them to just keep it. I’ve argued this point on several occasions here but it has never been rebutted, likely because it’s a damn strong point. Another point is that history tells us that this just simply doesn’t work.
The “flat tax” does has a fair sound to it which is, I suppose, pleasing to the ear and promises pie to everyone but again, quickly becomes crushed under it’s own weight. The Perry plan exposed this as it still leaves millionaires paying far less than 1% which ultimately brings us back to the Plutocracy or Social Darwinism plan of eliminating them from paying anything.
It’s not that I think the GOP want the middle class to pay taxes, it’s that I think they want to keep their larger contributors from paying any taxes. My main point is that the voters are on to it. They don’t seem happy with it.
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He still has cable tv?? I haven’t had cable for almost 2 years now. Guess what–you can live without it and pay a bill instead. IT CAN BE DONE, WOO-HOO!
I know, personally, that the economy sucks all the life from a budget right now. Believe me. But in my house there is no cable (there is internet, yes, as I work from here as well); there is no “Friday night pizza” –or any pizza, actually, fast food is the fastest way to blow $100 a week; if I can eat peanut butter and jelly some weeks, so can those twins; and okay, I will give a pass to the insulin guy. But hard times have not yet hit if they have not ALREADY given up those things in order to pay their bills.
I’m peeved at just about every tax that comes out of my check, but even more so to know it largely supports people who are NOT willing to give up those things. Is this not the president who claims everyone has to have “some skin in the game”? Whose skin? Conservative skin only or what? PPPPPPPFFFFFFTTT.
It’s all union contract negotiation, but on a huge scale. That’s all. A lot of hard language, a lot of crazy demands, a lot of theater. And both sides are looking out for themselves, not us. That’s the part that needs to change.
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