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Congress != Progress
That's right - 168 Republicans voted to raise your taxes!
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll604.xml
I suppose a half a truth is better than none.
The way the Dems packaged the Sun setting of this package of Cuts was that this was not a tax hike; it was simply a return to the rates that were in force.
I suppose that they thought that if they put that crap into a brown bag and said that it wasn not crap in a brown bag but was only a brown bag and was exactly like something that everyone like, everyone would like it.
Crap still smells like crap. How stupid do they think we are?
If I'm paying 20% now and they want me to pay 23% next year, that's a tax hike. If they want to raise the taxes on some but not on others, that favoritism. If they want to give half the people in the country a pass to pay nothing, that's favoritism.
Then you should be complaining to a wingnut, not me. They are the ones complaining that Democrats are trying to raise taxes rather than letting a tax cut expire, as it was meant to do.
I'm just using their fucked up rhetoric against them.
And it isn't close to half the country. It's 98% of the country vs. the richest 2%.
The current tax rate was never devised as a temporary policy, it just wasn't feasible to pass it without reconciliation. You also might like to reconsider your 98% vs. 2% generalization since every single one of my employees and vendors want the current tax rates to stay in effect at all income levels. They know they won't benefit if I have less money to risk on keeping them employed.