AdamT
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I thought rich folks didn't pay taxes.
You think a lot of things that have no basis in fact.
I thought rich folks didn't pay taxes.
Name for me one prediction by the OMB that has been accurate?
This isn't something that's especially hard to predict. It's an accounting thing.
Yeah, let's just outlaw private business in America, then all will be well won't it?
j-mac
This isn't something that's especially hard to predict. It's an accounting thing.
It just shows how ridiculously deceitful you have to be to try to make a point. No one said anything about outlawing private businesses....but why do you support public subsidies to support big oil corporations that are making billions in profit? Why are you in such favor of massive corporate welfare?
All the polls say that people are in favor of repealing the tax cuts for the wealthy. I didn't make any statement on raising everyone's taxes. If you don't believe that people favor raising taxes on the rich then it's not my problem that you refuse to accept reality.Americans want higher taxes? If I asked 100 people if they "wanted" higher taxes, 90 of them would look at me like I was a moron. As for the solution being taxing the rich, if you taxed the top 1% of the income in the US at 10% more, you would only equate for about 2% of spending in the federal budget, so we all know good and well that, thats not the solution.
They want to raise taxes for the wealthy to what they were under clinton. Back then we weren't a socialist utopia either and the economy did quite well and the top earners did extremely well. To argue this as class warfare or as buying votes is silly.Most people want others to pay more taxes so they don't have to. Its why the progressive income tax scheme works for politicians. Buy the votes of the many with the money of the few
I don't think anything is wrong with that. If a president has a policy that is popular with the people but the other side of the isle won't let him act on it I think he should bring it up as much as possible to show people he's actually fighting for what he thinks is right. If Rick Perry becomes president and he really want's to privatize social security and it's popular with the people, poll after poll, even if he has no chance of passing it, I think it's completely fair for him to constantly suggest it and bring it up to let people know "this is what I'd do if given the chance".So for the third time in what is it....10 months?...that Obama is seeking to raise taxes for those over $200k. I guess his strategy is "If you don't give me my way I'll just badger you to death with the same issue over and over and over again so I can claim you're obstructionist".
I don't think anything is wrong with that. If a president has a policy that is popular with the people but the other side of the isle won't let him act on it I think he should bring it up as much as possible to show people he's actually fighting for what he thinks is right. If Rick Perry becomes president and he really want's to privatize social security and it's popular with the people, poll after poll, even if he has no chance of passing it, I think it's completely fair for him to constantly suggest it and bring it up to let people know "this is what I'd do if given the chance".
I understand where you're coming from, it's old news and has been discussed to death, but if it's a popular idea then I see no reason that the president has to give up on it just because the other side of the isle don't agree with it.
I don't think anything is wrong with that. If a president has a policy that is popular with the people but the other side of the isle won't let him act on it I think he should bring it up as much as possible to show people he's actually fighting for what he thinks is right. If Rick Perry becomes president and he really want's to privatize social security and it's popular with the people, poll after poll, even if he has no chance of passing it, I think it's completely fair for him to constantly suggest it and bring it up to let people know "this is what I'd do if given the chance".
Kind of like that Ryan bill he knew wouldn't pass?Nope. The other team doesn't necessarily have to be playing politics. But, Obama, in this instance, certainly is. He proposes a stimulus that he knows republicans already don't want and offers to pay for it with tax increases republicans have already rejected.
Republicans will also, at times, play politics. In other words, republicans are not always righteous. So, basically, your entire statement is a bunch of hog wash.
It just shows how ridiculously deceitful you have to be to try to make a point. No one said anything about outlawing private businesses....
...but why do you support public subsidies to support big oil corporations that are making billions in profit? Why are you in such favor of massive corporate welfare?
Just making sure we've all seen this gem...View attachment 67115657
Kind of like that Ryan bill he knew wouldn't pass?
As my statement was both sides play politics, and you agree, exactly what makes it hog wash? I suggest that partisans always see the other side as playing politics, and in doing so allow themselves an out for not considering what is being proposed.
Oh, I was just trying to take it to its logical conclusion, considering the level of obvious disdain, and disgust you have for private business in the past...
See, I think you have to define what you are calling 'subsidies'. Past discussions about oil companies and 'subsidies' have included eliminating deductions in depreciating equipment like any other business. So tell us dude, what are YOU speaking of when you talk of eliminating these so called subsidies?
j-mac
From the conservative publication Forbes:
First of all, let the record show that President Obama is right and the GOP is wrong about these tax breaks. They make the economy less--not more--efficient and do nothing to reduce prices at the pump.
Although the president hopes to eliminate eight specific tax breaks--which cost the Treasury $43.6 billion over 10 years--only three, accounting for $31.9 billion of that total, are particularly important. Conservatives have no business defending any of them.
(snip)
Rigging the tax code to make investments in manufacturing artificially more attractive than investments in something else is an enterprise designed to harm non-manufacturers for the benefit of ... manufacturers. Conservatives who want government to leave markets alone have no business throwing their political bodies in front of this tax break. If their political rhetoric means anything, they would see the president's bid and raise him by calling for total repeal of this tax break for everyone, not just for oil and gas companies.
Eliminating Oil Subsidies: Two Cheers For President Obama - Forbes.com
You were typing?....heh, heh....Just kidding Joe. But seriously, Do you believe that this rehash of a speech by Obama with really nothing new in it, was a heart felt attempt at arriving at a solution? Or setting up his campaign with talking points in the future when he knows the outcome of this BS?
I say the latter.
j-mac
Why are you supporting rewarding politicians that created the 14.6 trillion dollar debt we have right now? Seems you are more concerned about how much money goes to the govt. than how that money is spent. That is true liberal elitism
From the conservative publication Forbes:
Eliminating Oil Subsidies: Two Cheers For President Obama - Forbes.com
A temporary tax cut, credits for home buyers, shovel-ready government spending, targeted measures for the chronically jobless, extended unemployment compensation. This is President Obama’s latest plan to nudge unemployment below its high new normal – and also precisely that of John F. Kennedy as he confronted recession on taking office in early 1961. The difference is that JFK came to realize that this policy was wrong-headed. Two years into his presidency, JFK turned on his heels to call for tighter money and marginal tax cuts. President Obama is repeating JFK’s initial policy error – though much further along in his presidency.
Obama Is Repeating JFK's Mistakes - Forbes
Oh goody...Dueling Forbes articles....
j-mac
It's a fools game to judge someone's heart. You could be as wrong as me and vise versa. However, I would say this, if this is campaign talk alone, he needs to be in campaign mode more often. Perhaps he should stay in that mode all during his term.