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Who do you think the biggest loser(s) of the 2010 tax compromise?
If they added a lot of pork/earmarks/bribes then everybody will be the biggest losers.
The Tea Party Movement got shut out by the 2010 tax compromise; their primary focus was taxes and deficits. Unpaid for social spending like extending the unemployment benefits for another 13 months is particularly obnoxious to them. This compromise adds a $1 trillion to the national debt while only temporarily lowering taxes for everyone, there's little here the Tea Party Movement wanted.
Our children lose as we go deeper in debt...
Depends, the Tea party was always in favor of lower taxes and since this is being passed during the 2009-2010 session, the republicans of the 2011-2012 won't be punished in any electoral form, it is, afterall, over 30 tea party representatives in that session.I had that train of thought but then put Republicans. The Tea Party may just make them pay in 2012 so they will be the big losers.
Depends, the Tea party was always in favor of lower taxes and since this is being passed during the 2009-2010 session, the republicans of the 2011-2012 won't be punished in any electoral form, it is, afterall, over 30 tea party representatives in that session.
However, if the deficit continues to go upward, then I can see many republicans staying home in 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/us/politics/15cong.html?_r=1Depends, the Tea party was always in favor of lower taxes and since this is being passed during the 2009-2010 session, the republicans of the 2011-2012 won't be punished in any electoral form, it is, afterall, over 30 tea party representatives in that session.
However, if the deficit continues to go upward, then I can see many republicans staying home in 2012
see, it's insane comments like that that let me know, without even reading it, that you must be from Washington DC.
Very clearly, we are the biggest losers here. More benefits for the richest members of society, and more burden on the rest of us.
You sound like someone who knows little about how the tax code tilts the playing field...
You sound like someone who knows little about how the tax code tilts the playing field...
this will be the first year that i pay in more than i 'get back'. so far i've been 'poor' and the tax code has been tilted in my favor.
LOL, perhaps you can edify us how the tax code does that. what would happen if everyone had to pay for what they use?
Picture the country if right now we removed everyone making 250,000 or more, out of the equation. Let's say we ship them all off to China or somewhere.
I wonder how many would think that would be a good idea because all we do is give the rich too many benefits or tax breaks anyway.
It's over-exagerrated by a longshot, there is no faction here. Keeping taxe rates the same just means we have to aim at solely on the budget, which no one really wants to do but, must happen.
It's over-exagerrated by a longshot, there is no faction here. Keeping taxe rates the same just means we have to aim at solely on the budget, which no one really wants to do but, must happen.
true, but it's something that would further twist their arms.raising taxes would not change that. the dems would keep spending in order to get elected.
raising taxes would not change that. the dems would keep spending in order to get elected.