Why does GOP want to protect tax cheats?
Riddle me this, Batman:
If it’s pointed out that a family of four making $40,000 a year pays no federal income taxes, many conservatives tend to get upset that the family isn’t paying their fair share like the rest of us.
On the other hand, if it’s pointed out that a multi-millionaire or billionaire pays no federal income tax, the reaction is to applaud his or her accountant for successfully cheating the government.
If a corporation is reported to have avoided paying corporate taxes, the reaction is again applause, under the thesis that corporations shouldn’t have to pay taxes anyway.
But if that corporation in question is General Electric, its ability to pay little or no taxes is cited as an outrageous scandal that must be addressed and investigated. (By the way, the company just announced a 77 percent increase in first quarter profits.)
And of course, as part of its demands to end the budget standoff earlier this month, the GOP demanded and got $600 million in cuts from the IRS budget. As John Berry in the Fiscal Times noted in March:
IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told a House subcommittee last week that such a budget cut over just six months likely would reduce federal revenues by $4 billion. The IRS “would need to make substantial cuts to its enforcement programs,” he said.
In other words, cut spending by $600 million, lose $4 billion in revenue and add $3.4 billion to the deficit
Of course, that’s $3.4 billion in revenue over six months that the government is already owed, under existing tax law. The GOP is in effect protecting criminals, pulling cops off the beat to ensure that those breaking the law are not caught. And remember, the money not paid by scofflaws must be paid by somebody else. Back in 2001, the most recent year for which estimates are available, almost $300 billion in taxes owed went uncollected.
But again, if the people owing those taxes are poor or middle class, that is presumably a scandal. If the people owing those taxes are affluent business people, they are heroic Americans.
At least, if I understand these things correctly …
– Jay Bookman
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Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
9:36 pm
TaxPayer
What did I lie about? Please be specific.
Peter
April 21st, 2011
9:37 pm
HA HA HA maude….. a government for the people by the people ? HA HA HA…
Please at the time of the signing of the US constitution…… “All men were created Equal”…….. remember…..??????
Then of course there were slaves…. So what has changed in a few hundred years ?
getalife
April 21st, 2011
9:37 pm
When cons stand up from bowing down to billionaires that give unlimited donations to pols and don’t need cons help, there will be change.
Don’t think this generation of cons will ever get off their knees and fight to change our corrupt systems and corrupt governments.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
9:39 pm
AmVet
You sound rather intimidated. I’m sorry that you don’t like my responses to your rantings, but hey, that’s life on a political blog.
The key is to remain civil, the question is, can you?
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
9:40 pm
getalife
“Don’t think this generation of cons will ever get off their knees and fight to change our corrupt systems and corrupt governments.”
That’s what the Tea Party is all about.
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
9:40 pm
Ryan’s bill only alters the benefits of SS for people under 45 years old.
Back that up with a little linkee, like a good little con.
AmVet
April 21st, 2011
9:42 pm
GLL, you are the third so-called conservative I have asked a straight forward question of this afternoon/evening, and so far I have received zero replies.
Again, what names have you used here before?
Seems a civil enough question…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
April 21st, 2011
9:44 pm
That’s what the Tea Party is all about — except when 70% of them say “hands off MY entitlements”
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
9:44 pm
Amvet,
The good little con is a familiar one, isn’t he. Yet, no matter how many times he is reincarnated, he’s just forgettable.
getalife
April 21st, 2011
9:44 pm
“That’s what the Tea Party is all about.”
They bow down and act upon the wishes of the koch brothers. Fact.
Try again con.
getalife
April 21st, 2011
9:46 pm
I tried to get an answer on how many times w raised the debt ceiling and got crickets too.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
9:46 pm
AmVet
I ask liberals questions all the time, including you. You can ask all day but it is my choice whether or not I answer. You came here spouting your normal hysterics and I pointed out an obvious flaw to your logic. You didn’t like that so you changed the subject and are attempting to make it personal. I choose to stick to the subject you introduced.
So how do you feel about the fair tax and how do you explain the Democrat’s opposition to the concept?
Del
April 21st, 2011
9:47 pm
“Don’t think this generation of cons will ever get off their knees and fight to change our corrupt systems and corrupt governments.”
There our other options where you may find greater happiness in perhaps: North Korea, China, communist Cuba, Venezuela or maybe Moldova. Delta is ready when you are.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
9:47 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
70% That’s a pretty specific number. Source?
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
9:50 pm
getalife
The Koch Brothers are libertarians, not Republicans. And hey, the left has George Soros. What’s the difference?
getalife
April 21st, 2011
9:50 pm
“There our other options where you may find greater happiness in perhaps: North Korea, China, communist Cuba, Venezuela or maybe Moldova. Delta is ready when you are.”
I am very happy here and it is you cons whining and complaining every single day del.
Perhaps you should follow your own advice because there will be four more years of your daily crying.
Del
April 21st, 2011
9:50 pm
Oops, ‘there are other options”
Really Now
April 21st, 2011
9:52 pm
This paper needs reworked. It is more liberal then Obama. No wonder most people dont know the real facts. All you have to do to find tax cheats is look in the administration. Thats the creteria to being on the Obama pannel these days. Be a tax cheat. Then your made a Czar or given some huge non working job that pays hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
9:52 pm
Del
I have to admit that he is right about our corrupt government. Maybe we can change that in 2012.
getalife
April 21st, 2011
9:53 pm
“What’s the difference?”
Soros is a dem donor that can counter the kochs.
Del
April 21st, 2011
9:53 pm
getalife, well you don’t sound as though you’re really happy here, so I just thought I’d offer you up some alternatives.
getalife
April 21st, 2011
9:54 pm
“Maybe we can change that in 2012″
The gop will make it worse so you don’t want to change it..
getalife
April 21st, 2011
9:55 pm
I did del.
Stop bowing down.
Del
April 21st, 2011
9:55 pm
GLL, I agree, although I don’t think he/she sees it quite the same way as we do.
Disgusted
April 21st, 2011
9:57 pm
So how do you feel about the fair tax and how do you explain the Democrat’s opposition to the concept?
Well, gee, I dunno, maybe it’s the fact that the fair tax
1. Is a consumption tax on essentials, and that consumption tax hurts poor and middle class people much worse than it does the wealthy: the former need to spend just about all their income on consumables, whereas the wealthy just sock away tax-free any amount they earn above what they consume;
2. Exempts interest income, stock dividends, capital gains, etc.—all largely the income sources of the wealthy—from any taxation whatsoever;
3. Encourages the black market for goods and services;
4. You haven’t lived until you’ve paid $7 for a loaf of bread, while waiting for that pathetic rebate the cons promise you’ll get. We all know that cons never, ever break promises—like the one that was made when workers were suckered into paying Social Security tax after a promise that they’d get a pension after a lifetime of work and no one would ever touch it.
Other than those piddling things, I can’t think of any defects in the Fair Tax at all.
Del
April 21st, 2011
9:58 pm
“Stop bowing down.”
You need to pass that admonition on to Obama.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
9:58 pm
getalife
“Soros is a dem donor that can counter the kochs.”
So what’s the problem? I don’t like any billionaire that tries to manipulate the system. Both parties have them. I still fall right of center, but after what the Republicans have tried to pull since January, I’m looking for a real alternative. It would be really nice to actually vote FOR somebody as opposed to the lesser of two evils.
Dusty
April 21st, 2011
9:59 pm
Will the AJC Ethics Committee (ha!) please investigate Bookman? Headlining suggestive lies is NOT telling the truth. GOP does not support TAX cheats and he knows it. Just another rubbish dump on Republicans. Integrity at AJC is such a bother. So they do away with it.
The Cox Family owns AJC and they are as rich as they come. Anybody check THEIR taxes for loopholes and how much they paid and gave to charity and what percentage and all that crap about “the rich should pay MORE taxes”?
No indeed. Bookman wants to know why GOP wants to protect tax cheats. Why does Bookman want to protect liberal rich people? Why? Why? (Hint: Because they pay HIM.)
getalife
April 21st, 2011
9:59 pm
Again del,
He can’t do it by himself silly.
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:00 pm
The FairTax is pure socialism. Who would have ever thought that Republicans would go for it but they do.
Lil' Barry Bailout
April 21st, 2011
10:02 pm
Obama says new task force will examine gas prices
LOS ANGELES – President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will try to “root out” cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets, even as Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind gasoline’s surge to $4 a gallon.
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Faux populism from the faux intellectual Idiot Messiah.
More bread and circuses for his retard acolytes.
getalife
April 21st, 2011
10:02 pm
“I’m looking for a real alternative. It would be really nice to actually vote FOR somebody as opposed to the lesser of two evils.”
Nobody is running to change the system.
There are no alternatives.
There are no leaders after Obama.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:04 pm
Disgusted
1. You made some good points, but I think it is a start. If essentials were taxed less than luxuries, that would fix that problem. Look at Tennessee’s tax system. No state income tax and food is taxed less than anything else. And Tennessee has a workable indignant care health plan.
2. It doesn’t actually exempt anything because it has never been drawn up as an actual bill.
3. Tennessee doesn’t have a black market
4. I don’t know what you are talking about. Who’s paying $7 for a loaf of bread?
AmVet
April 21st, 2011
10:04 pm
So GLL, you won’t even answer that simple, harmless question?
Wow, (get it?)
I’ve seen your game innumerable times here and know what that means. You’re screwed. Very, very few here are going to take you seriously.
Because you’ll never manup and honestly answer the question. Yet you expect complete honesty to all of your queries.
So it just becomes the same old waste of time, covering the same old ground the last time you were here, in whatever iteration. And the time before that. And the time before that…
And, as getalife says this is a no lie zone.
Not to worry, somebody here will play with you though…
Del
April 21st, 2011
10:05 pm
I find it interesting that the far-left likes to include the middle class in with the poor and lament that the middle class is shrinking. They’re attempting to build a perception that this country is moving toward a wealthy class and a poor class with nothing in the middle. The middle class is alive and well in America, although the left is doing their level best to destroy it. If we don’t wake up they may succeed.
maude
April 21st, 2011
10:06 pm
Ryan got booed by the people in his district. They are finally waking up to what the gop are trying to do to the Middle Class Americans.
They are aware that the voucher system is a horrible idea for Medicare. It would be the usual extreme cost for poor coverage.
To the moderately aged people on this blog, you may be lucky enough to live a long life, you may need Social Security and Medicare someday and if ryan has his way you won’t have it.
You had better wake up and realize what is really happening, that the wealthy are greedy and want it all, including what we have. They will never be satisfied and will suck the life out of all of you.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:06 pm
TaxPayer
I always hear liberals demanding that conservatives define socialism. So it’s a sales tax instead of an income tax?
Thanks for clearing that up.
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:08 pm
Why would Republicans cut measly millions from the IRS when they have the potential to collect hundreds of billions unless they’re trying to shield their donors from more scrutiny. I think Jay is asking the appropriate question, why does the GOP wanto to protect tax cheats. The Dems are not protecting them. The Dems expose the tax cheats and make them pay up. The Republicans want to praise the tax cheats and even make it easier for them to cheat.
AmVet
April 21st, 2011
10:08 pm
Del, the facts don’t agree with your 10:05…
Bookman-Tucker-Luckovich
April 21st, 2011
10:09 pm
I guess they want to protect Tim Geithner, tax cheat. And the rest of this Administration.
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:09 pm
good little con,
you owe me a response from earlier. WOW me, won’t you, and give me that linkee to support your claim about Ryan’s plan.
Yippee
April 21st, 2011
10:10 pm
Mr. Bookman,
Pace yourself, as it is early and you have a long road ahead in your mission of propping up the Democrats and Obama through libtypical inflamatory half-truths; fabrications; and outright BS.
All the crap and distractions calling this place home fail to to see the obvious: We are heading over the cliff and the federal government is fiddling with the radio knobs. Come on folks, pay attention!
Del
April 21st, 2011
10:10 pm
“Del, the facts don’t agree with your 10:05…”
AmVet, oh yes they do.
Dusty
April 21st, 2011
10:10 pm
getalife, when did you get brainwashed?
Disgusted
April 21st, 2011
10:11 pm
To the moderately aged people on this blog, you may be lucky enough to live a long life, you may need Social Security and Medicare someday and if ryan has his way you won’t have it.
Yup. But the Koch brothers and other large employers of hundreds masquerading as small businesses don’t like making that matching contribution to SS and Medicare. And besides, getting rid of SS and Medicare would be great for the bottom line and the economy, dontcha know.
Dusty
April 21st, 2011
10:12 pm
Taxpayer, when did you get brainwashed?
Lil' Barry Bailout
April 21st, 2011
10:12 pm
maude: Ryan got booed by some union thugs bused into his district.
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Fixed.
Oh, Obozo got booed at his town hall meeting today. Pretty sure they were US citizens doing the booing.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:13 pm
AmVet
I don’t expect anything from you except insults. Other than hysterical rantings, That is apparently the limit to your abilities.
If I have no credibility among others here, why are you trying so desperately hard? You seem to want to speak for everyone here. Was there some sort of vote to make you the spokesperson?
And finally, if I am such a waste of time, why did you just waste so much time composing yet another hysterical diatribe against me while avoiding my question?
As far as me “manning up” the opinion of you about my manhood is absolutely the furtherest thing from my mind.
Del
April 21st, 2011
10:13 pm
Nothing will be determined on this blog, just a place to vent opinions. Taps…have a great evening y’all.
AmVet
April 21st, 2011
10:14 pm
Del, then, please provide those facts that this country is NOT moving toward a wealthy class and a poor class with nothing in the middle.
Because I’ve got quite a few that will show we are very much moving in that direction..
Sid Farcas
April 21st, 2011
10:14 pm
GE gets all these great tax breaks from this President and you want to point the finger at the GOP? Profits up 77% this year and giving Obama lots of money. You lose credibility with every post. You are a douche Book Man. Always have been a douche, always will be a douche.
maude
April 21st, 2011
10:15 pm
wow,
“Tennessee has a workable indignant care health plan”
Freudian slip: indigent care
AmVet
April 21st, 2011
10:16 pm
G’night, Del.
Rest well.
We’ll butt heads another time…
fedup
April 21st, 2011
10:16 pm
Hey Jefferson….Dems….the disaster that has and is happening. Jay….Charlie Rangel ?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
April 21st, 2011
10:16 pm
AmVet, you mean things like demanding that someoen provide a link but not providing a link to his claims?
Then there is the other poster who posts opinion disguised as factual but not intended as factual statements
Then you have another poster who accuses Jay of somesort of distinction between Republican tax cheats and Democratic tax cheats.
____________________________________
They do play their little games well.
Don't call us Po Folks, We're just plain Folks
April 21st, 2011
10:16 pm
A wealthy class and a poor class with nothing in the middle. What would be the early warning signs? Let’s see, would 47 percent of the population paying no federal income tax be one. Would a handful of people controlling trillions of dollars be one. I suppose such things might be indickative of such a society. Let’s Dwell on that, shall we.
KRS
April 21st, 2011
10:16 pm
So Jay, what about Tim Geithner? Is he a tax cheat also, someone who your prince Obama appointed to oversee the IRS and he had severe PROBLEMS with his taxes, oh Jay, he cheated.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:17 pm
TaxPayer
Sorry. It wasn’t 45, it was 54:
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/05/6411892-ryan-plan-a-good-deal-depends-on-age
Over age 54? You needn’t worry about the proposal House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., unveiled Tuesday for a redesign of Medicare.
Under age 54? You’ll need to pay a bigger share of the cost of your medical care once you’re retired.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:18 pm
maude
LOL!
Good catch. Thanks
Billybob
April 21st, 2011
10:18 pm
Why does obama protect tax cheat geithner by letting him run that which he cheated on……..why does the media protect wanna-be-tax cheat john kerry and his hidden yacht in another state………keep talking bookman, you and tucker are a riot lately!!!!!!
KRS
April 21st, 2011
10:20 pm
Jay, McDonalds hamburger pit gets a waiver from Obama care and they are to hire 50K people in one day. U think this is some of Chicago politics to fool the public. McDonalds are headquartered in Illinois outside of Chicago.
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:20 pm
Then there is the other poster who posts opinion disguised as factual but not intended as factual statements
Is Jon Kyl blogging here! I don’t believe you. Where’s your proof.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:21 pm
KRS
If you want to learn the truth about Mikydee and the federal government, read Fast Food Nation.
Message from Matti
April 21st, 2011
10:21 pm
KO addresses the question of why people who aren’t rich and who will never be rich complain about taxing the rich: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMVqikEt6Xc
“… this guy represents the real tragedy. He is the hard working, generally benign conservative who thinks the system should be designed only to keep money out of the hands of the lazy and slothful. It has not occurred to him, or he has blinded himself, to the reality that the politicians he supports are there to make sure that even conservatives in the middle and lower classes cannot break through to higher ground and greater income. And if he does have the insight to see the repression the republicans are building, …….. he blames it not on them, but on scapegoats.”
Doggone/GA
April 21st, 2011
10:22 pm
“gets a waiver from Obama care ”
Everybody, every single body, who bitches about this leaves out THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD:
TEMPORARY
They are getting TEMPORARY WAIVERS
TEMPORARY – you would be just that much better educated if you memorised it and then look it up in the dictionary so you know what it means
Sid Farcas
April 21st, 2011
10:23 pm
Just in case AM Vet or any other Book Man type liberal is out there, here is the WS story about GE.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983704576276564256544634.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:24 pm
The Ryan plan would gradually replace Medicare with a system of vouchers that seniors could use to help buy private health insurance. Privatizing Medicare in this way would increase health spending substantially for two reasons, CBO explains. First, private health insurance plans have much higher administrative costs than traditional Medicare. Second, private plans cannot negotiate payment rates for health care providers that are as low as Medicare’s.
But don’t you worry because you seniors will have control of your money with that voucher and you’ll be able to demand value for your money or else you’ll just take it elsewhere, like India or Korea.
Lil' Barry Bailout
April 21st, 2011
10:24 pm
The waivers are temporary. The suckiness of the law is permanent.
Sid Farcas
April 21st, 2011
10:25 pm
Hey doggone, you mean like temporary taxes? Give us a break, any corporation like GE will be exempt from obozocare as long as they “support $$$” the dnc.
oldguy
April 21st, 2011
10:25 pm
Lets see Jay,
The second highest corporate tax rate in the world;
Well over a Trillion dollar shortfall each year, and rising;
Obama supporter GE pays NO Income taxes;
Billionares (Soros, etc) supporting the PreZ and Demoncrats;
Multiple tax cheats in the Administratioon;
Who was that again supporting the rich ?????
Keep Up the Good Fight!
April 21st, 2011
10:27 pm
Taxpayer…all part of putting the Big Lies out there hoping that some continue to believe even when disproven.
I assume you say these town halls clips and stories…Not going well for Republicans. I love the woman who says “And that is, you seem to think that because I’m not affected, I won’t care if my niece, my grandson, my child is affected. I do care.” Bet we’ll soon see a lot of Republicans cancelling their town halls.
AmVet
April 21st, 2011
10:28 pm
Years ago, Po Folks was good value. Then the middle class really did become po and that was that…
Keep, like I said somebody will play with the new named wow of a thousand names.
Sid, your outrage over GE is about 15 yearslate.
You were snoozing while your boys in Washington and elsewhere implemented the Corporate States of America…
Doggone/GA
April 21st, 2011
10:28 pm
“The second highest corporate tax rate in the world”
Oh, woe is me…those poor, poor corporations – paying one of the lowest EFFECTIVE tax rates in the world and making record profits while doing it. What SHALL we do? What shall we do?
Message from Matti
April 21st, 2011
10:29 pm
“What about Tim Geithner? What about Tim Geithner? What about Tim Geithner? What about Tim Geithner? What about Tim Geithner? What about Tim Geithner? What about Tim Geithner?”
Zip it and listen up: The appointment of Geithner, a tax cheat, is just one more piece of evidence that THERE IS NO CHANGE. The people who owned GWB also own Obama. Our President does not make the big decisions. The people who own all the money and really run the world do not change from year to year because we have our silly elections. The real power is the same. The entire two-party system is a RUSE. They want us to be divided and fighting with each other because that way there is no risk that we will ever unite and take power from them. D’OH!
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:29 pm
Taxpayers
Mediamatters. I wondered why you didn’t reference it. Yep, if it’s a rag bought and paid for by George Soros, how can it NOT be true?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
April 21st, 2011
10:30 pm
Why Doggone, when we dont like the stinkin facts we change them and then say temporary, yeah wait they’ll be permanent. Of course by the time the expire, the lie will have lived. Did you not read the playbook?
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:30 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight,
Republicans need to get out there in every community and tell everyone the sordid details about the Ryan yellow brick road map because the people gave them a mandate to do just that.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:33 pm
Doggone/GA
“Oh, woe is me…those poor, poor corporations – paying one of the lowest EFFECTIVE tax rates in the world and making record profits while doing it. What SHALL we do? What shall we do?”
Actually the ones making record profits are doing it by moving manufacturing offshore. So it may not be Woe is you, but it is woe to about 20% of the population that don’t have a decent job.
If we don’t start doing something to get jobs back here, we are not going to have a country left.
Doggone/GA
April 21st, 2011
10:33 pm
“when we dont like the stinkin facts we change them”
What kills me is that “the other side” doesn’t even LIKE the healthcare bill. Wouldn’t you think they’d be HAPPPY to see companies get those waivers?
RGB
April 21st, 2011
10:34 pm
From the IRS web site: “The Administration’s FY 2012 budget request for the Internal Revenue Service is nearly $13.3 billion, a $1.1 billion increase from the FY 2010 budget.”
Why does the IRS need nearly a 10% budget increase when everyone else is taking it in the shorts? What’s so special about the IRS? Is there a shortage of auditing? Any businesses out there saying “Gee, if we just had more IRS audits taking place then I’d be willing to hire more people.”
Too bad the left salivates when contemplating cuts in defense but gets the hives when asking the IRS to take a small decrease.
I guess we know the left’s priorities.
Doggone/GA
April 21st, 2011
10:36 pm
“So it may not be Woe is you, but it is woe to about 20% of the population that don’t have a decent job”
They’re still sitting on record profits. Why aren’t they hiring? They can afford it. Lowering taxes does not produce jobs. CUSTOMERS produce jobs. Listen to the TV ads sometime. There’s at least ONE company that understands that.
“Without customer there would be no Nationwide”
getalife
April 21st, 2011
10:36 pm
We have started a green energy policy with electric cars, wind, solar, ethanol, etc,,,,,,.
cons said no.
The Arab people want freedom.
The cons said no.
The President tried to fight against citizen united and election reform.
The cons said no.
A vote to end Medicare.
The cons said yes.
The problem is obvious.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
April 21st, 2011
10:37 pm
Taxpayer, that “its about jobs” mandate or the “please destroy medicare mandate” that 70% of the tea party says “What are you doing?” Was there a birther mandate?
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:37 pm
good little con,
If you wish to debate the content of the Ryan road map then do so. We can start here if you like. Or would you prefer to go straight to Ryan’s source — the Koch funded Heritage Foundation. If so, perhaps we can start with an assessment of their assumption that the tax cuts will pay for themselves just as soon as unemployment hits 2%. What do ya say.
RGB
April 21st, 2011
10:39 pm
Damn right we said no.
THIS IS OBAMA’S GREEN ENERGY PLAN:
GASOLINE PRICES: “I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment ”
ELECTRICITY RATES: “You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
Yippee
April 21st, 2011
10:40 pm
I hear one has to have liquid assets of $750k or better to become a resident of Australia. Better start saving your pennies. I won’t renounce my citizenship, but moving away for a while is looking better. Good night.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:40 pm
I hear liberals complaining about a shrinking middle class and I can’t disagree, but I hear these same liberals attacking companies and openly stating their contempt for American business.
Corporations are leaving our country because of ultra-high taxes and violent union thugs now supported by our government, but again, liberals keep complaining about a shrinking middle class Our jobs are going away. That’s why the middle class is shrinking.
It is honestly like the abusive husband who can’t figure out why their wife left them.
I need to go home.
Have a good night, everybody.
RGB
April 21st, 2011
10:41 pm
“The Arab people want freedom.
The cons said no.”
Are you sure that’s what’s taking place over there?
When 8 Arab nations adopt Muslim theocracies, are you willing to own it?
Didn’t think so.
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:41 pm
Did someone offer to cut defense! Who? Where? How much? And if the IRS were able to collect that 300 billion owed in taxes, I’d say they earned their budget.
getalife
April 21st, 2011
10:42 pm
We just started rgb. We should have started when Carter warned us and we had gas lines but you cons bowed down for oil. It is your fault cons.
Admit it big oil lovers.
AmVet
April 21st, 2011
10:42 pm
In 1979, the Carter administration installed 32 panels on the roof of the White house which were designed to harvest the sun’s rays and use them to heat water.
Reagan took them down.
Carter was looking ahead.
Reagan and the cons look backwards.
They still do.
Doggone/GA
April 21st, 2011
10:42 pm
“Why does the IRS need nearly a 10% budget increase when everyone else is taking it in the shorts?”
It just MIGHT have something to do with the IRS returning nearly $10 in taxes to the government for every $1 it spends
If you’d actually READ what Jay wrote you would have seen this: “In other words, cut spending by $600 million, lose $4 billion in revenue and add $3.4 billion to the deficit”
Nobody but the conned would see cutting a service that returns nearly 1000% on the investment as a BAD thing.
TaxPayer
April 21st, 2011
10:44 pm
If we cut GE’s taxes to zero, will they bring the jobs back!
RGB
April 21st, 2011
10:44 pm
Thankfully Paul Ryan has a plan.
Obama has no budget plan. No clue. No ideas how to prevent financial death for the USA.
He is a man bereft of useful plans but full of useless, destructive ideology.
We are poorer, sicker, and less safe than 2 years ago.
Obama is the author not only of sham tomes, but also the author of this country’s final chapter.
And you tyrannical leftists own that too.
Good little liberal
April 21st, 2011
10:45 pm
TaxPayer
No we won’t start by debating yet another far left article. Look through the website and find any article that is not slamming the Republicans. i’m not asking that you stop reading the left wing garbage, but just once, you should try reading something that is not bought and paid for by the DNC. You might be amazed at what you are missing.
RGB
April 21st, 2011
10:46 pm
Well then perhaps we should give the IRS $1.8 trillion and we’d solve ALL our budget problems.
Public school?
getalife
April 21st, 2011
10:46 pm
rgb is is liar.
“Obama has no budget plan.”
Lie.
AmVet
April 21st, 2011
10:48 pm
“…of this country’s final chapter.”
Prepare the fainting couches!!
(And be very afraid…)
RGB
April 21st, 2011
10:48 pm
Open question to the liberati:
Besides the military, are there any government expenditures that you would reduce?
And please spare me big oil, big pharma, Halliburton, George Bush, Koch brothers, the evil rich–they aren’t budget items.
RGB
April 21st, 2011
10:48 pm
Cite it.