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The biggest loser(s) of the 2010 tax compromise?

The biggest loser(s) of the 2010 tax compromise?

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Who do you think the biggest loser(s) of the 2010 tax compromise?
 
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.
 
jamesrage said:
If they added a lot of pork/earmarks/bribes then everybody will be the biggest losers.
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You do understand who funds the GOP leadership, don't you?

Donations = Bribes.

The Dems are guilty of this to. Money buys power.
 
Dems. They have rejected bipartisanship, employed class warfare, and are to stubborn to compromise on a bill that Republicans and Obama agree with. They are the losers, and if they have their way with the bill we will all be the biggest losers.
 
Chappy said:
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.
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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.
 
Barbbtx said:
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.
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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
 
DarkWizard12 said:
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
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It's the billions of spending and the extention of unemployment they don't like. From what I'm hearing some want to just let them expire and regroup in Jan.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
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
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/us/politics/15cong.html?_r=1

Quite a few want them to reject it.
 
Very clearly, we are the biggest losers here. More benefits for the richest members of society, and more burden on the rest of us.
 
see, it's insane comments like that that let me know, without even reading it, that you must be from Washington DC.
 
I voted "other" for everyone.
 
cpwill said:
see, it's insane comments like that that let me know, without even reading it, that you must be from Washington DC.
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You sound like someone who knows little about how the tax code tilts the playing field...
 
Paschendale said:
Very clearly, we are the biggest losers here. More benefits for the richest members of society, and more burden on the rest of us.
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what burdens? the rich already pay (depending on how you define rich) 40-60% of the federal income tax

until the vast majority of people face tax hikes to pay for this out of control spending, they will continue to ignore the idiocy of congress.

that's why the dems want to jack up taxes on the top tax payers-so they can keep buying the votes of the middle and lower classes and lie to them that tax hikes on the rich will pay for them
 
hazlnut said:
You sound like someone who knows little about how the tax code tilts the playing field...
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LOL, perhaps you can edify us how the tax code does that. what would happen if everyone had to pay for what they use?
 
hazlnut said:
You sound like someone who knows little about how the tax code tilts the playing field...
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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.
 
cpwill said:
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.
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Yay! Moving up in the world!
 
TurtleDude said:
LOL, perhaps you can edify us how the tax code does that. what would happen if everyone had to pay for what they use?
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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.
 
Barbbtx said:
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.
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people like Hazlnut would starve to death
 
DarkWizard12 said:
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.
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raising taxes would not change that. the dems would keep spending in order to get elected.
 
TurtleDude said:
raising taxes would not change that. the dems would keep spending in order to get elected.
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true, but it's something that would further twist their arms.
 
TurtleDude said:
raising taxes would not change that. the dems would keep spending in order to get elected.
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I think you mean the Republicans. They spend more than Democrats but just to different friends. And America is losing on this tax deal. Obama should NEVER have let Republicans put these tax gifts through! Its reckless spending that does NOTHING for the economy.
 
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