Will Boehner’s ‘Blink’ Make A Difference on Tax Cuts? Not Before Lame-Duck

My husband and I make just enough money to be in the upper tax bracket. Tax cuts in the past have given us extra money to go on vacation, but we don’t need it. I would rather see that tax break given to families that are struggling and are wondering how to pay their light bill, than to us, for vacation. We have the resources and we will manage without a tax cut. At least we have money to manage.

Just like Sen Grassley ‘joined’ health care bill discussion. Got GOP measures put in, but still voted against. Boehner will ‘shore up’ his party candidates until after the election, but then watch the party of “NO!” go on, and on, and on, etc.

They need to remove the 10% penalty for early withdrawal of IRA and 401K funds for the unemployed. That’s untapped stimulus money that doesn’t add to the national debt.

I think it’s amazing how the dems can change their stripes when they think they’re about to get hammered. I thought tax cuts didn’t help anything? Tax cuts don’t matter. Now Obama goes to Ohio and tells everyone he wants to spend more, and cut taxes. Will this idiot not say anything to retain power. To bad the democratic party has allowed this to go on this long. Look who’s in charge over there. Pelosi,Reid, Clinton, These people are all nuts.

rightbehind wrote: “They need to remove the 10% penalty for early withdrawal of IRA and 401K funds for the unemployed.”
That, of course, was yet another Obama campaign promise that never happened…

Boehner isn’t compromising at all! He’s been saying all along that he would prefer all the Bush tax cuts be renewed but if that wasn’t possible, he would vote for an extension of the middle class tax cuts. The MSM jumped on this like it was some sort of compromise only because they’re trying to find a way to make him look bad. But go back and read what John Boehner has been saying for quite some time now.

You have to realize, that when you start talking taking the tax cuts from the rich, you are talking about MOST of the people in Congress!
Getting them to go along with that, is going to be a real hard sell!

Any Partisan who thinks its acceptable (during such a Financial crisis as we face) To just say no to everything is a fool. David Frum ( A GOP Conservative) has
castigated his party for Obstruction, when they could have traded blocks of votes for Policy changes. Do we send People to DC just to get reelected? Should the two parties fight one another or work to find solutions to our Problems? The GOP have elected so far to just obstruct—Obstruction is dereliction of duty– As irresponsible a ploy as I have ever seen!!!

rightbehind | Sep 13, 2010 9:50:45 AM —– Something that should have happened almost 2 years ago. Put a limit of say $25K so people do not completely deplete their savings.

@billy bob
Melissar did not miss the point. She just had a very different take on this from you.
Anyway, you conveniently assume that the government is going to “waste” tax revenues. That reflects your deep distrust, and explains why you see things very differently.
For me I go with Melissar’s point of view. And though I know that tax revenues might be subject to misappropriation (though in some cases it’s a matter of YOU seeing things differently from those in charge, again – and since you disagree with them you will say that they “waste” your money); I still believe in the social responsibility of paying taxes. What can modern societies do without the public funds, which are gotten mainly from tax revenues?

Unless everyone has a solution to this economy I dont think anyone should be commenting, at least someone like the president wants to do the job of running this country.

Actually, MellisaR, if you make slightly over the 250K mark, you will only be taxed on that overage 3% more that you would normally be taxed for that overage. Lets say in is 275K. You would only, technically, be taxed 3% more on 25K that you would have with the tax cut. That is really an honorable comment you made but you really would not have to forgo your vacation completely. My last vacation cost about 2.5K for me and my husband so this would mean people like us would have to take a slightly cheaper holiday, but not forgo the vacation all together :) After the tax cuts are gone for our income range, it means instead of a rate of 33%, the number will be 36% and only on the income that exceeds 250K. I think people in our range can handle that. I’m with you. It won’t adjust my life too much but make a huge impact on people who are worried about clothes for their kids, not vacations.

I think that many conservative pundits tend to make the populace believe that an income tax increase on the wealthy would mean less jobs. This is simply not true. Increasing income taxes on Steve Ballmer doesn’t mean less individuals hired for Microsoft.
It is time that Americans live in and understand reality and not some fantasy that is purported by the rich upper class.

All you trickle down people must be glued to fox and limbaugh. Having voted for Reagan with his supply side econ. I have seen how it has crushed the middle class. You republicans have got what you want and don’t know it. You have about abolished unions in this country. Now you have people standing in lines for an $8.00 an hour job. Being 63 I have worked since I was 10 and the only time I was fairly represented was when I was in a union. This pie in the sky attitude that corporation will treat their employees fair has proven to be false. The only people that have benefited are the CEO’s
Wall Street and those whose income is from unearned income. Yes we need middle class tax cuts, and to pay for this we need to let the upper income tax cuts expire. Remember the upper income only pays the higher rate on anything above th 200,000 range.

Folks the rich still get the “middle class tax cut” on those brackets. The rate would only go up on the amount of money they make that lands in the top brackets. This isn’t so much getting rid of tax cuts on the rich, they still benefit below $250K, it’s stopping the Bush gift to his rich neocon on their super wealth gained from nonregulated bubbles where they took your money away from you

Since when did people who make a quarter of a MILLION DOLLARS become middle class?
How about not increasing THEIR taxes, but LOWERING taxes for the %95 of the population who make $50,000 or less?
Idiots. The entire government has lost contact with AVERAGE people. Boot them ALL this fall!

Americans will send their country the rest of the way into hell if they put the very scoundrels that created these deep crises back into office. The economy will not recover. Nothing will be done about climate change. Putting these liars and do nothings back into office will be the death knell of this country.

The more successful you are, the greater your ammassed wealth, etc, the more you have benefited from the American system. That includes benefits from things paid for by taxes – police to enforce property rules, roads to transport your goods and services, a uniform commercial code, unemployment and welfare benefits to keep the unemployed from getting desperate and beating you to a bloody pulp. Early childhood education so your next generation of employees can outperform the previous one. It is not unreasonable for those who have benefited the most from these things to be expected to pay a greater share of their revenues through taxes so the gov can continue to do these things. You may not like every expenditure, but them’s the apples of living in a society. Also, for middle-lower income people griping about the bid bad national debt – how exactly has the debt harmed you? I mean tangible, measureable harm that has already occurred, not speculative future harm.

I like Obama.

Another note to trickle down folks…people don’t invest in business because they HAVE money. They invest because they WANT money, and there is money to be had. Which means there is demand, i.e. people to buy. Most of these people are in the low-to-middle class tax brackets, because they are more likely to be in a position where they NEED to spend any extra money they get, and because there are just more people in these tax brackets to begin with! That money then trickles UP to the businesses that most successfully and efficiently meet demand.

I support Obama’s plan.. The wealthy have received so much more from tax breaks since Reagan was president compared to the normal people of this country. The wealthy have not been creating anywhere’s near enough good high payiing good benefit jobs with their extra money from tax breaks and de-regulation.
therefore it is obvious that giving them any more moeny and incentive is useless and that has been proven.
however tax breaks for the middle class workers means the money will get spent and themoeny spent will increase tax revenues and will trickle all the way up to the wealthy anyways… Whom will have to hire more people to keep up with demand because the workers are spending cash again.
trickle doewn DOES NOT WORK, HASN’t WORKED, and anyone spinning hte argument that it does is only doing that spinning the real facts to promote an agenda

Boehner is smart…
1) Did say he wants no tax increases.
2) Now Says he will not block the Lower income tax increase (if no other option)
As you pointed out, nothing can be done until the
ELECTION. Then
3) Will Say that there is another option with the new congress, so the lower tax increase “blocked” until
4) 2011, The new Congress makes all the taxes permanent (Retroactively if need be), and the remaining Democrats either have to accept it, or be charged with “holding” the middle tax “cuts” hostage to their socialist, Class Warfare plan.
So the Blink is just a Wink to his own addenda. thanks…

@ billy bob:
- A Keynesian (a follower of British economist John Maynard Keynes) does not a Kenyan necessarily make, or vice versa, but your “lunitik” rant gave me and my colleagues a good laugh this morning! Thanks!

“This Administration and Congress need to get out of campaign mode and start working for the American people.”
They tried to pass a bill to get 50 million Americans health care they desperately needed. What do you want from them? The moon?
These tax cuts will help 98% of Americans. 98%. Is that not enough of America? Does the 2% richest represent America? Look at the deficits since this tax bill was put in place, does that say nothing about how ineffectual tax cuts for the rich are? There are hard facts, graphs even, you can find proving how bad these tax cuts were for our country. The money these billionaires get doesn’t improve the economy in any way, it just allows them to buy another yacht.
We’re betting on these millionaire to think of the common man before themselves, and it just doesn’t happen — it HASN’T happened — because no one does, because this country is so bankrupt in empathy for each other. I can’t believe someone said giving money to the government instead of to the mega rich would be a waste. Is education a waste? Good schools? Good health care? Better roads? You do realize it was the governments money fighting this glorious war in Iraq right? Is the money used to slaughter hundreds of thousands of people the only money worth using?

Why will wealthy people create more jobs if they get a tax break? Do they take the money they save on taxes and use that to hire people making 30-70k per year? Doesn’t seem likley. Are there tax breaks for businesses that will expire (I’m asking)?
If so, now that the workforce has shrunk and companies are figuring out how to do the same with less people (increasing responsibilities, automation, computers, etc,), it seems to me that tax cuts on businesses will allow companies to make up for the massive losses they’ve been sustaining over the past two years’ recession.
I would not expect extending these breaks to the wealthy or businesses will create more jobs.
However, tax breaks for innovation would encourage people to try out new ways of doing things that could create more jobs.

Reply to billy bob. So you want to give your tax money to others less fortunate than you. Go ahead and do that, but don’t tell me that I have to do the same!
Its my money. I earned it. Don’t take it and give it to others without my say so!
Does that sound selfish? You be the unselfish one, O. K.

The government should be doing less, thereby spending less, and not needing to take in so much. People should save for those rainy days, such as losing your job. We don’t need the government acting like our mothers or fathers. They need to do only what is outlined in the constitution, and no more.
Unfortunately, so many of our citizens are now completely dependent on government ‘assistance’. It’s just a matter of time before our collapse makes the USSR collapse look like a picnic… they were already living poor, we’ve been living high. It’s going to be a major shock when the well runs dry… so much tradgedy on the way.

I think the point is that now Obama cannot say the Republicans are blocking the tax extension for the middle class – what excuse is he going to use now for not moving forward?

Boehner blinked because he thinks he might soon be in a position of actually governing, instead of just obstructing. Let’s show him how wrong he is!

Simple, Boehner will vote for the tax cut and then it will go to the Senate and it won’t pass. Boehner is no fool. And for Gibbs to underestimate him his a bigger ass than I thought

Tax cuts really do not matter if you are earning $70,000.00 it amounts to about $35.00 additional dollars in each of your pay checks whith totals about $70.00 per month. What is $70.00 per month now a days, when you have people earning over 1.5 M per year and want more, and are not trickling those profits down to their employees but have frozen their salaries while their profits are higher and higher every year. They abuse their employees by over working them to death and telling them “how lucky their are to be employed”. Thanks a lot Bush, you received a country with plenty of jobs and left the country in chaos and spending money in two useless wars.

You can always tell the Republicans on a board like this. They say moronic things that they don’t understand, like: “Teleprompter President” and “Kenyan economics” and “the middle and low income groups DO NOT CREATE JOBS, they take jobs. It is the upper income groups who create jobs and those groups are not going to create jobs in the face of high taxes”.
Look, the wealthy DO NOT CREATE JOBS! Businesses create jobs with their earnings, the wealthy whose income is derived from these businesses AFTER jobs are created. How the HELL do you think the company had the money to pay their top execs those million dollar bonuses in the first place? Oh yeah, that’s right. From the millions of low and middle income folks who bought all the crap they were selling. Now that those groups are struggling businesses need to re-evaluate their wealthy execs pay but do they? Nope, they lay you and me off as the wealthy continue to feed their greed and drive their businesses into failure while blaming a poor economy and higher taxes.
They certainly have you suckered.

Oh and you think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are “useless”? I don’t think we should be the world police, but come on already… nothing good has come from those operations? How do you feel about civil liberties and personal freedoms? Do you think those ideals only apply to Americans or are they generally valid for all human beings?

@tony – he was quoting Gingrich saying “Kenyan” not Keynesian…it was either an attempt to rile up the birthers or Gingrich misspoke.
Also, since when did Obama say tax cuts were bad (@chance)? He ran on cutting taxes to those making $250k or less. And those making over that are just going back to the tax rate under Clinton (3% higher). And by the way, the favorite “statistic” of the bottom earners not paying taxes is completely misleading. The bottom 50% have no federal INCOME tax liability, but still pay FICA, medicare, SS, state, etc. In fact, their effective tax rate (total taxes paid/total income) is often much higher than the rest of the nation.
Finally, where were all these deficit hounds over the past 30 years? It’s OK to go into debt over wars and tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans, but not OK when it’s to provide health insurance? And how do you expect to reduce it? Let me guess, it’s the lazy poor peoples fault for using up all those “entitlements”?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m by no means a fan of Obama but this attitude of our team is better than your team is absurd. Stop being so hypocritical and examine the actions of your own party. If your sick of the same system let’s get some candidates in that just don’t toe the party line for politics sake.

Hey Tony2,
Nice try with the 50%-not-paying-taxes-statistic. But what I said is true: 50% of the citizens in this country do not pay any federal income taxes. The other 50% do. All of us (who are employed) have to pay the other crap as well.
How about a 10% flat tax for everyone, regardless of income, and no more automatic withholding. I am sure that those who clamor for higher taxes will be a little more concerned how that money is spent when 1)they have to contribute and 2)they have to cut a check every year.

To digress:
Obama is exactly the president I elected.
Someone above mentions that the universal insurance mandate is making his insurance premiums jump 33% next year. Your INSURER is playing a game of chicken with its policyholders / the American people, because it rightly perceives a state run insurance system as a threat to its profits-in-exchange-for-cruddy-service system. Your insurer is playing the “well gee whiz I didn’t wanna raise your rates but them gumment folks just made me” card to turn you against any step at all toward a single payer system. Don’t give in to the cynicism and don’t accept a world in which people are bankrupted due to the misfortune of having a condition not covered by their insurance policy. We need to stay on the path to universal coverage – a healthy society is a smart society is a powerful society.
Also, do not confuse “health care” with “health insurance.” We have the best medical technology in the world, but the insurer-led means of accessing that technology is totally broken.
Bringing it back home, Boehner’s tactic is a similar game. He and the GOP will try to hold the middle class hostage to the wealthy after the election, and there will be a repugnant tradeoff – maybe cutting unemployment benefits. Who knows what the exact tradeoff will be, but make no mistake there will be one.

Sorry Ben, but you are the gullible one. The government is forcing insurance companies to raise rates with ridiculous mandates. The end game is a single-payer government-run system because the government is going to bankrupt the insurance companies. It’s tactically brilliant, but painfully cruel.
And I’m afraid that you, along with most liberals, don’t understand what insurance is. No pre-existing conditions? How can an insurer operate that way? Can you buy a homeowners policy without an inspection? Can you buy flood insurance when your standing in 2 feet of water in your basement? What they are doing is destroying the private medical industry. And it’s a damn shame because it’s the best in the world.
I get great coverage from my insurance company, and I pay through the nose for it. Once your ideal system is in place, we’ll all pay through the nose for sub-standard quality care.

The 2 longest running wars in American history:
The war on poverty
The war on drugs
Both are dismal failures and should be stopped.
America is great because of our freedom, which is being lost a little bit every day. Without economic freedom, there is nothing else left. Ask a russian.

Newt appears to be referring to the Kenyans against the British Colonial rule. Kenyan, anti-colonial —- My guess he is showing commonality to Obama wanting to change our traditional Democratic rule. Sort of referencing anti-colonial sentiment and the subsequent elections that made Kenya free of British rule.

I think it is fundamentally wrong to treat healthcare, just as education and police, as a for-profit business. I believe in an on/off model for health insurance btw. Either you have it or you don’t.

Hey middle class….. who will “employ” you?

Newt appears to be referring to the Kenyans against the British Colonial rule. Kenyan, anti-colonial —- My guess he is showing commonality to Obama wanting to change our traditional Democratic rule. Sort of referencing anti-colonial sentiment and the subsequent elections that made Kenya free of British rule.
Posted by: lfrichar | Sep 13, 2010 12:30:15 PM……….Didn’t the British hold and torture Obama’s grandfather?

paul—i do goverment contracts and I see the Massive govt waste every day. If you have not walked in my shoes than you have no idea. its that simple.

While we are revising the tax code, we ought to revise the election system so that we avoid having to watch the football (US) game that is the election race every two years. The defense being the party in power and the offence being the party trying to gain seats, and we political junkies watching the “Big Game” in November.
Seems that we only get one year out of two of actual (semi) governing before campaign season starts. Then nothing gets done, everything said by anyone gets spun, and those of us who work for a living who get our information from news snippets and he-said-she-said rows don’t know what to think and don’t bother voting.
As long as the election system is like this no one will ever get any beneficial long view legislation passed because they are too worried about being re-elected.
This leaves the diehard fans of each party making the decisions, and the party that can mobili$$$e their base the best wins.

A potential republican compromise with the democrats is considered a “blink”. Geez! Get over yourselves. Better yet–Voters: you know what to do in November. Vote the incumbents out.

It’s refreshing to hear the $250,000 and over crowd agreeing to the 3% tax
re-adjustment that would happen anyway…when the BUSH tax give away runs it’s course. These are patriotic people…Not the T-Bag party types who wave the flag then cheat on there taxes.
Sorry, no matter what FOX Noise say…If you don’t want to pay taxes, you can’t say your for the Troops.

This is all just political for the Nov. election. Remember no tax cuts, it would not help anyone, just government spending? Don’t fall for any of this.

The Bush tax cuts will expire for everyone on schedule. The political environment is so toxic right now that the only outcome is gridlock. Both sides will blame the other. The end result will be a slowed recovery and reduction in the deficit.

Blackie —- According to your statement “”If you don’t like paying taxes, you’re not for the troops”" many of us wouldn’t be for the troops. Nobody actually LIKES taxes. I don’t like them and I am a retiree from the military, but I support our troops all the way. Paying our fair share is one thing, paying for generational welfare recipients is totally another.

Rob,
Sorry, missed what you had said earlier, I was actually replying to a comment earlier in the thread. But my point on effective tax rate still holds. I’m not just referring to what is deducted on a paycheck. I’m referring to ALL taxes (from your paycheck to the gas you pump in the car). When all those taxes, and there are a lot of usage taxes out there, are added up the poor and middle class pay a higher percentage of overall income. For example, filling your tank up takes a bigger chunk out of the bank account when you only earn $20k a year.
I would agree with you in principle on a flat tax, but I think the issue of how people define income would still be a problem as it is now with a progressive system. The top 400 earners in this country pay an income tax averaging about 16% – far less than most of the middle class. This is because of the way they derive their earnings. Buffett doesn’t draw a very large paycheck, but he does earn a ton in dividends, long term capital gains, etc. which are at a lower rate. So it all depends on how you define income. A bonus? Lottery? Benefits? Capital gains? Dividends? 401k? What exactly would be considered income? Because right now the only difference between a flat tax and a progressive tax is looking up a percentage in a chart. If you are suggesting that ALL earnings are considered income (no loopholes) then I would agree. That or any thoughts on a national sales tax instead of any income tax at all?

I would like to ask Boehner Blink can you explain in simple english language how do you plan to give tax cuts to the middle class when already we Americans are living pay check to pack check. I dont think you know this, fourty percent, do not have accounts in the banks all they do is go to check and cash, and live their lives. Where is their savings,S.S.is nothing.Thirty -Five percent make 18,000 to 20,ooo per year. Its like counting your earned dollars before you spend.What is the persentage of a wealthy middle class can draw at the most per year, and what is the base of tax cuts you are talking about.Its been the same for the last fifteen years nothing has changed at all.

I don’t think Boehner blinked. He has been pushing for extension of the Bush tax cuts all along. The middle class cuts is one piece of it. Though necessary, extending the middle class cuts won’t do much for the economy. Families struggling today and not spending, will be in the same boat when tax cuts are extended because we are just preserving the status quo. We need to cut government spending and give businesses an incentive to start hiring again for the long term. How about disallowing deductions (or adding tax penalties) for business expenses associated with off shore operations, but doubling the deduction for creating U.S. jobs or for selling products made here with primarily U.S. made parts for the first two years? Extend the tax cuts for individuals and families with incomes up to $1,000,000 so small business owners and farmers are not adversely affected. When the middle class cuts get passed without the rest, let’s see where the economy is a year from now and only then will we know which approach (all or only some extended) was right.

Boehner has just learned the hard way that NO RESPONSIBLE PERSON ever gives in to the extremist plans and policies of the lunatic-left d-crat socialists. There is ALWAYS a better way.

Melissar, I concur that it would be better to give to pay for utility/food bill than to take a vacation, but to give the money to the middleman (the government) isn’t the wisest way to give. How about when the government decides that you should continue to keep your tax cut that you seek some of the needy on your own and give to them personally. That my friend will provide you and the receiving families the true gift of giving and you without a doubt will benefit the most. Now if you give to the government, do you think that they will use it more wisely than you?

DRAT…got #4 wrong. Republicans want ALL the tax cuts to be extended, which means ALL stay the same.

I still say that we need to get rid of all of the stupid taxes like the right to work in your own country, what the hell why do we have to pay the cities and counties to work in them? Why should we have to pay to work anywhere in this country. And why are we made to pay taxes to go see a show or a movie or any intertainment. The taxes keep going up and they keep making up more taxes for us to pay. And are the tax cut going to finnally be for the low and the middle class or are all of the lawyers in Government going to twist ot all up and scew us over again and the people who get profits from the bail out money going win over and get the tax breaks and we will have to go back to busting our butts to keep our homes. You watch it will end up being a temperary thing for us and it will go right back in favor of the rich, because you know it would be to hard for them to live on 1 or 2 million a month rather than their regular 3 or 4 million a month, I would be happy to have my 2,400 a month job back but that doesn’t seem to be happening, because these big buisnesses are really taking advantage of this economy and are now only paying min wage, lol yea the rich keep on getting richer. The banks lowered their intrest rates but lol they are not giving any loans out or mortages, You have to be a nunn to get aproved for a load or mortage, the intrest rates finnally get where people can maybe aford a home and they won’t give you the loan, itn’t that nice and we are the ones who are bailing them out every year nice isn’t it? I say let them go down there will be another bank or buisness to take their place we don’t need to keep saving the same ones over and over again. while they sit on their house boats, and going on vacations from one mansion to another, they might spend 5 or 6 months out of the year in the office, but we are just suppose to shell out billions of dollars to them at the end of the year because they need their bonus for what I don’t know. If the buisness isn’t making enough money to give you your big bonus then some thing is wronge and you shouldn’t get one. these guys with small buisnesses if they have a bad year they don’t get a bonus or go on vacation, and they don’t ask the tax payers to pay for it. We need to take back our government and stop this corp. world sucking off our pay checks along with the government officals.

I really don’t know what tax cuts they are talking about because i haven’t seen any in this great state of PA infact all of our state officals and county officals have voted in their pay raises like there is nothing wronge with the economy,so yea our tax cuts, they must not be much because i haven’t seen any difference, I still lost my house and my job, and I haven’t heard any thing that they are doing in this city to help find jobs, infact they have DEP going after what jobs are out there and trying to shut them down for one thing or another nice wright. Yea I will beleive it when I see it.

George, you look more and more like you are looking for a job with this President. Stop acting like
chris Matthews.

Well MellisaR and PaulaT, the vacation that you don’t take pays for people in the airline industry, and affects the local economy where you vacation, where many jobs depend on your vacation. So, by not taking it, you are taking money out of the economy, taking away jobs, and giving it to politicians who will use it to bail out more CEOs and direct it to buddies in Unions etc. Only a very small percentage of your tax is preventing starvation here in the US.
I think that moving to 1M per year separates out the rich from the successful middle class and I would be in favor of that, but in general government takes too much as it is. I have to balance the budget of my small business each month and I will do so by laying off marginally productive employees to offset tax increases. I cut expenses. The federal government needs to do the same – particularly with entitlements and some military cuts. Fiscal collapse if a much great threat to this country than Al-quieda.
I think it is wonderful and ethical to give money to those who need it. I view it as unethical to force a third party to give money to certain people that you favor. That is what the government does with taxes, under penalty of imprisonment. A small amount is ok but when the sum of the taxes approached 50% of one’s earned property each year, it looks like a mafia “protection money” racket.

George, why do you insist on asking these inane questions? Gingrich is quoting something from a “birther”. Please start give us the news NOT making the news.

Boehner, Mitchell, McMaverick and all the other 240 millionaire Congresspersons of course are concerned for us!
There isn’t one person in congress who doesn’t make at least $250,000.
Nor will there be if we elect all the new candidates for office! ….Rand, Sharon, Sarah, Joe, Glenn, Jan Bbbbrew, hot air TEA bags! They’re all advocating for the rich tax breaks!

ll of the voices you hear cursing Obama and the president are right. Obviously the president wants to see more Americans lose their jobs. It’s not in his elite mindset to over see our country succeed. That is why he wants to continue tax cuts for 98% of Americans. Giving them more money to spend at the same time create more job opportunities. Of course every policy he puts forth is held hostage by the Republican party and several Dems. The opposition wants what is good for our country more than the president. What are their ideas? Other than to say the presidents ideas are bad for the country. Where are their counter proposals? ThiMk SHEEPLE. Don’t baa against your own best interests.

my brothers and I own a construction business in midwest~ we have been in business for 45 years~ this year was biggest ever. employees now get medical, hired 3 more workers due to incentives. with over $5 million in sales we are nowhere near getting hurt by the $250000 income limit pushed by Obama. My guess the ones that are close to hitting that limit are big business that export jobs out of country.
the people who actually hire will not be hurt at all!

Without Greed and Lust for power, this would be a no brainer. Come on people… During the 90′s we had growth, REASONABLE taxation and NO DEBT. My Vet friends and me are sacking up Weapons, ammo, survival gear and cash. Dem’s and Repubs, alike. The economy is gonna free fall, if we don’t pay down the debt. Where is the Elder Bush when we need him?

This just shows how bad the repubs and dems in Congress are. Compromise! Everyone under half a million a year keeps their tax breaks and those higher don’t. The extra tax revenue goes half to tax breaks for small business and half toward our national debt. This small increase in taxes for those making a half million or more. Both sides need to compromise and get this done in less than a week. Anything greater is caused by elected officials that our more interested in sticking to party lines than the American public.