Poll on tax cuts: for everyone or for under $250k only

[Revere]

Two years of the most out of control spending in the history of the planet. Now Obama wants somone else to "pay the piper."

 

[Article 15]

Taxes are already at insanely high levels....The federal rates are only a fraction of the story.

The problem remains spending.

I disagree that taxes are at insanely high levels but I agree that the main problem is spending. When the spending results in $13 trillion in debt and a $1.3 trillion deficit then the solution has to be a combo of tax increases and spending cuts. Time to pay the piper.

Why didn't Obama "pay the piper" for two years?

Because the economy was in complete tailspin when he took office and he campaigned on, and was elected touting a plan for a trillion dollar stimulus to keep the economy afloat. The economy is helluva lot more stable now than it was 2 years ago and we are in a better position to actually do something about the problem.

 

[Revere]

I disagree that taxes are at insanely high levels but I agree that the main problem is spending. When the spending results in $13 trillion in debt and a $1.3 trillion deficit then the solution has to be a combo of tax increases and spending cuts. Time to pay the piper.

Why didn't Obama "pay the piper" for two years?

Because the economy was in complete tailspin when he took office and he campaigned on, and was elected touting a plan for a trillion dollar stimulus to keep the economy afloat. The economy is helluva lot more stable now than it was 2 years ago and we are in a better position to actually do something about the problem.

It still is in a tailspin, so evidently it's not working.

 

[Revere]

A coma is "stable."

 

[Article 15]

Deficits held steady, and were on the way down until 2008.

The cost of both were kept off the books, pedal that nonsense somewhere else.

Prove it. show some links. Failing that ,your post is bullshit.

Are you kidding me?

Supplemental emergency funding ring a bell to you?

 

[Revere]

The cost of both were kept off the books, pedal that nonsense somewhere else.

Prove it. show some links. Failing that ,your post is bullshit.

Are you kidding me?

Supplemental emergency funding ring a bell to you?

The same $100B a year Obama is still spending, and then some. Debt is debt.

 

[Article 15]

Why didn't Obama "pay the piper" for two years?

Because the economy was in complete tailspin when he took office and he campaigned on, and was elected touting a plan for a trillion dollar stimulus to keep the economy afloat. The economy is helluva lot more stable now than it was 2 years ago and we are in a better position to actually do something about the problem.

It still is in a tailspin, so evidently it's not working.

We are no longer hemoraging hundreds of thousands of jobs a month and GDP is growing.

 

[Revere]

Because the economy was in complete tailspin when he took office and he campaigned on, and was elected touting a plan for a trillion dollar stimulus to keep the economy afloat. The economy is helluva lot more stable now than it was 2 years ago and we are in a better position to actually do something about the problem.

It still is in a tailspin, so evidently it's not working.

We are no longer hemoraging hundreds of thousands of jobs a month and GDP is growing.

All recessions end.

What's taking this one so long?

 

[Article 15]

Prove it. show some links. Failing that ,your post is bullshit.

Are you kidding me?

Supplemental emergency funding ring a bell to you?

The same $100B a year Obama is still spending, and then some. Debt is debt.

But you don't want to count that debt during the Bush years so you can claim the defiicts were on the decline. It's laughable the game you are trying to play.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Then the tax cuts go off into the sunset. Works for me

Who's getting their taxes cut?

Nobody if the GOP doesn't want to compromise.

No....it is the democrats who want to be a stick in the mud.
Remember the newly elected people have not been sworn into office.
This is still the same majority democrat House and Senate.
This is nothing but a craftily cobbled together attempt by the democrat leadership and the Obama admin to gain political cover over the tax cut extension.
The GOP will not compromise on issues and policy.
The GOP will be the majority party in 2011 and beyond. You lefties will just have to suck it up and deal with it.
Oh yeah, if the democrats had not been such a miserable lot to deal with and they had at least pretended to listen to the people, the party would quite possibly have retained the majority in the House.

 

[Revere]

Are you kidding me?

Supplemental emergency funding ring a bell to you?

The same $100B a year Obama is still spending, and then some. Debt is debt.

But you don't want to count that debt during the Bush years so you can claim the defiicts were on the decline. It's laughable the game you are trying to play.

It's in there.

Obama's new debt still blows away Bush's.

 

[Article 15]

It still is in a tailspin, so evidently it's not working.

We are no longer hemoraging hundreds of thousands of jobs a month and GDP is growing.

All recessions end.

What's taking this one so long?

It was the biggest collapse since the 20's ... these things don't turn around very quickly.

 

[Revere]

We are no longer hemoraging hundreds of thousands of jobs a month and GDP is growing.

All recessions end.

What's taking this one so long?

It was the biggest collapse since the 20's ... these things don't turn around very quickly.

The same failed policies in the 30s are being tried today.

 

[Article 15]

All recessions end.

What's taking this one so long?

It was the biggest collapse since the 20's ... these things don't turn around very quickly.

The same failed policies in the 30s are being tried today.

Which ones.

Be specific.

 

[Article 15]

The same $100B a year Obama is still spending, and then some. Debt is debt.

But you don't want to count that debt during the Bush years so you can claim the defiicts were on the decline. It's laughable the game you are trying to play.

It's in there.

Obama's new debt still blows away Bush's.

Obama's deficit is practically the same as Bush's final budget.

 

[Revere]

It was the biggest collapse since the 20's ... these things don't turn around very quickly.

The same failed policies in the 30s are being tried today.

Which ones.

Be specific.

Failed Keynesian government spending.

Permanent high unemployment in the 30s.

Permanent high unemployment today.

 

[Article 15]

The same failed policies in the 30s are being tried today.

Which ones.

Be specific.

Failed Keynesian government spending.

Permanent high unemployment in the 30s.

Permanent high unemployment today.

I said be specific.

 

[Revere]

Obama's policies are the same as FDR's.

 

[Article 15]

Obama's policies are the same as FDR's.

So you go back to vague generalities ... I'm convinced now

 

[Revere]

Same stuff...dig a hole and fill it in public works, government deciding which businesses go forward and which do not.