We don’t use prison labor. We don’t have illiterate people moving from the country to become indentured servants to corporations for food and lodging. We have workers compensation for workers hurt on the job and on and on and on. Wake up and smell the coffee. We CAN’T compete with virtual slavery but you seem to think we can or should. Your COMPLETE lack of understanding and simplistic views are but one of our current problems.

centrist

you sound like another disgruntled union worker. keep voting for the pelosi’s and reid and of course the muslim in the white house.

eddie47

rove sounds like he is trying to make amends for past sins against the demos.

Eddie this is not just about the wealthy. It is obvious that is who you want to target. It’s about AMERICA and We The People within; our core values and standards and freedom of speech and opportunity to make more of ourselves such as ideas and inventions, and the spreading of human kindess in these sort of ways as We the People choose, not forced as those in Washington are trying to do. Some aquire wealth by illgotten gains, but alot of folks earn it honestly. I believe in human kindness and that more than not want to help their fellow neighbor. Sharing from one purse has never worked and never will. History is proof of this. Robbing the rich to feed the poor is not heroic nor is it reasonable; and eventually even the ones you think you are helping by utilizing government will be hurt a great deal more than they are presently suffering. I am sorry for you that you refuse to see this. Your socialistic views help noone, but deeply hurt everyone.

I think the rich would absolutely die and go to heaven for the opportunity to pay the same percentage as everyone. But they don’t pay the same now do they??? They’re at a MUCH HIGHER (with another increase to come??) rate. At the same rate I just know the little guy’d be gettin’ boned. My math is a little rusty….. which is more??? 15% of $20,000 or 15% of $15,500,000??? I bet it’s the former.

Opening a small business is very difficult and most fail. Even in a boom economy most small businesses fail. That’s just a fact of life. To blame businesses failing on repealing a tax break is ridiculous. Many small businesses flourished before the Bush tax cuts. This isn’t going to be enough of an increase to force someone out of business that was getting by before. It just doesn’t make sense.

Dave,
No one has fallen off the unemployment rolls, didn’t you hear about Pelosi’s rage about the party of “no” not wanting the extension (99 weeks). Incidentally, I don’t want to support a lot of these people that refuse to take a cut in pay to go back to work. “I make $500/wk on unemployment. Why would I take a job that only pays me $10/hr.” That kind of mentality must go the way of the Dodo bird. The fact is that tax cuts are only going to ease the pain of our economy not provide relief from the pain of our economy (or alck thereof). Discussing the relative merits of this or that are just distractions from what needs to be done: throw the bums out and start over!

That’s hardly out in “left field”.Everyone here talks about downsizing government. Get rid of the DOE,the EPA,the FDA,ect. Cut their pay,take away government benefits,fire them all. Some have even taken on the Post Office.

What are you even talking about? Cella is right. Republicans will get rid of Government jobs because that’s what they want to do as their main goal. Shrink the size of the government. Do you think they want to keep the employees but get rid of the buildings or something? If you privatize social security what happens to the people who work for that office in the government? It’s really you who are drinking the koolaid. Turn off Fox and read a bit.

D, you sound like a programmed parrot. Where’s your comments on the internet kill switch? Cella, whiz off. Kill the farkin’ tax cuts. STOP the insane spending. Progressives, ‘Dems’ and libs, get a brain transplant. I’m sure Herr Obummer will put you ‘special people’ (including Gore and Waters) at the top of the frickin’ list.

We sound like Parrots? You’re the one spouting out right wing media slurs over and over again.

Ok that’s a good start. Now let’s go to a flat tax and do away with the IRS and tax accounting profession as well. Maybe go back to an economy that produces.

A flat tax is really the best option!!!!! If you want to keep what you have then fine… If you buy something then you pay a tax. Sounds great.

The “Governemnt” spending we need to get rid of is the lifetime retirment packages the politicians get. You and I work at least 20 years (or lots more) in order to get some of OUR OWN MONEY back from the government. However, if you work for the government, you only have to work a couple of years and exit out with at least a 6-figure retirement income, plus all kinds of benefits. Why? It should be a privilege to serve not a life time ahievement award. Do your job, clean your desk, go home. End of story. Imagine just how much money would stay in our treasury. And, it is our money, you know, not the governments.
As for reducing the number of government employees…why not? The current administration strategy is putting the rest of us out of work. We might as well all be out of work. We won’t have to pay taxes and can sit on our fannies and wait for the government checks to go into our bank accounts. There will be no incentave to go into business for ourselves, because we might make over $250,000 and the government will take our ‘profits’ so we can’t continue our business anyway.

The wealthy have been creating very little for so many years now so unemployment was bound to go up.Those tax breaks were a gift to them to spur growth and they went out and built bigger homes for themselves. $250,000 is allot of money (U.S. average is $52,000). I say it’s time for them to stop complaining and put those tax breaks where they are needed or give them up. I’m not supporting your high end lifestyle any longer.

JAG,
One of the government spending areas we need to get rid of is these private secirity forces in Iraq!!! 500 to 1500 dollars a day!!! They seldom have to fight like our troops do daily and they make fifty times what the troops do!! also if the push comes these are the people that haven’t even considered taking an oath!!! they don’t care who they shoot at as long as they get paid!!! I don’t worry about our troops that much, but these guys I do!! there are over 50 security companies there as we speak!!

No one is taking anybody’s profits over $250,000. They are just taxing them at a normal rate without a tax break. I hope and pray that I have to worry about how much of my money over $250,000 gets taxed. That sounds like a good situation to be in. I agree with not giving huge retirement packages to congressman. I’m not sure that even happens anymore but if it does I’d vote to repeal it. We agree on that. See we can agree on things.

Joe H. I agree with you. Miracles do happen.

Dave,
The drive behind the current push to extend the Bush tax cuts is to create jobs. Since the wealthy are the ones mostly likely to create jobs, it makes no sense not to include them in the extension.

Further down in your post you mentioned that,”These tax breaks are adding to the deficit. I thought you guys cared about that?”
Doesn’t spending 50 billion dollars which will have to be borrowed and paid back with interest on roads, bridges and runways add to the deficit?

As for being lead, only the victims of socialistic indoctrination assume that humans need to be lead anywhere.

I’m not saying anyone needs to be lead I said you being are. YOur emotions are being taken advantage of. The 590 Billion dollars directly creates jobs. The rich had this tax extension throughout this crisis and obviously it didn’t help. People in the top tax bracket used the money to play the stick market or invest in real estate or hide in a offshore bank account. How can you guarantee people will use this tax break to create jobs. People are greedy by nature. If a company used to net $1,000,000 per year and then sales went down then they cut the staff so that the owner of the company still makes his salary. It’s the middle class worker that bares the brunt of the hardship. They normally have little savings and high debt. They need the relief right now and in exchange they will definitely spend that money on going to college, paying debt, buying consumer goods. Those things in turn prop up the business owners and the wealthy who can then create jobs. The trickle down economic policies of the Republican party are flawed at best. Every time they push those policies we end up in a recession. Then people forget and get wrapped up in the paying less taxes thing.

Demoncrats tax more than the middle class. They tax the poor and the needy and they are going to tax us so much pretty sone the demoncrats will have us sign over our paychecks(if we still have jobs) to the feds and they will give us food coupons or something.What we really need is a way to hold all people running for elected office to there promises or we need a way to move them out for lying.If its a felony for anyone to lie to congress then it should be a felony for congress to lie to the American people.

Dave, but what about the almighty deficit the repubs are constantly screaming about?? Do you want to add 3.1 trillion over ten years to that already big deficit that the repubs started for us, by passing medicare advantage bill, starting two unfunded wars ?? Can’t have it both ways, economics 101.

Hey! all you ditto heads, the tax cuts have been in place for a solid decade now…….notice all the jobs they created? Hmmmm?

Does the country’s huge debt really bother you? Do you know at no time in the history of the world has a country cut taxes during a time of war, until the USA did under George W. Bush.

Ever think about that?

Hello!!!!we are still at war…..are you there? Obama only wants to return to the tax level during the Clinton years, now he could take us back to the Reagan years when taxes were even higher.

What on earth is stuffed into the space between your ears? You want more tax cuts for the stinking rich who sat on their free money and have not invested in a single stinking job for 10 long stinking years. What are crazy? Are you nuts? What in the heck is wrong with you silly people?

Carole Howell, We have some “Silly People” on this blog and I would place you at the very top of the list.

You say “The rich” sat on their “Free” money. Are you braindead or what? I think you got that in reverse, don’t you? When did “Rich” people start getting “free” money? It’s their money dip stick, not yours!

Have you been sucking off the government hind zit so long that your brain has malfunctioned?

“It’s the progressive spending-STUPID” and it has been going on for a 100 years!!!

If you pay or have been a TAX payer you get to vote, the rest get ZERO vote, and for all the Obots out there let’s not get Technical you Know EXACTLY what I Mean. I have kept it Pithy, a poor person has never given me a Job. Government Kings, Princes, Queens and Princesses Pay ZERO to Social Insecurity why de WE?

Carole H.
Have YOY ever thught how many MORE jobs would have been lost had those cuts not have been there? Use your brain for something more than something to keep your ears apart!!

Warrior, you are right, start with the bloated military, we have…..In the midst of an economic crisis that’s getting scarier by the day, it’s time to ask whether the nation can really afford some 1,000 military bases overseas. For those unfamiliar with the issue, you read that number correctly. One thousand. One thousand U.S. military bases outside the 50 states and Washington, DC, representing the largest collection of bases in world history.

No other country feels the need to have foreign military bases in other countries. So WHY do we? Cut that waste. Trim that excess fat.

Lets cut Congresses’ medical benefits, if Socialized medicine is too good for us, it is too good for them, CUT that fat out. Cut their wages in half. They get paid very well by big business and some foreign powers. CUT that fat.

Here check this out….
http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/GazaHolo/index.html

Is this how we want our tax dollars to go, we really want to fund this.Getting your $$’s worth here?

This estimate of total U.S. direct aid to Israel updates the estimate given in the July 2006 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It is an estimate because arriving at an exact figure is not possible, since parts of U.S. aid to Israel are a) buried in the budgets of various U.S. agencies, mostly that of the Defense Department (DOD), or b) in a form not easily quantifiable, such as the early disbursement of aid, giving Israel a direct benefit in interest income and the U.S. Treasury a corresponding loss. Given these caveats, our current estimate of cumulative total direct aid to Israel is $113.8554 billion.

Then figure in…..

It must be emphasized that this analysis is a conservative, defensible accounting of U.S. direct aid to Israel, NOT of Israel’s cost to the U.S. or the American taxpayer, nor of the benefits to Israel of U.S. aid. The distinction is important, because the indirect or consequential costs suffered by the U.S. as a result of its blind support for Israel exceed by many times the substantial amount of direct aid to Israel. (See, for example, the late Thomas R. Stauffer’s article in the June 2003 Washington Report, “The Costs to American Taxpayers of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: $3 Trillion.”)

I say we have a lot of fat we could cut and hey! we could pay off our National Debt in no time at all and we would not have to sacrifice a thing.

Carole howell, let’s do even better than that, as follows:

1.) Cut the federal workforce in half immediately, futher reductions will follow.

2.) Mandate that all federal workforce pay does not exceed the private sectors median average for the same job function. Currently the almighty federal workforce makes 54.8% more than their respective private sector counterparts.

3.) Dismantle the department of education and return it to the states and local governments. This way we can teach our children the greatness of AMERICA instead of being indoctrinated by the progressive’s marxist ideology.

4.) Privatize both Freddie and Fannie. The federal government has no business being involved in housing. Housing for the poor can be returned to local governments, as in, community homes for the poor.

5.) Eliminate any and all entitlement programs. Our rebublic was not designed for government controlled welfare systems. Again, this needs to be handled at the local levels of government so WE THE PEOPLE can hold those we place as “SERVANTS in charge” accountable for every LOCAL public dollar spent. In other words, start with a repeal of the oblamacare bill and go back in time for the past 100 years analyzing every entitlement bill passed to date. If it violates our constitution, then repeal it. Most of them are nothing more than DUMB PONZI schemes.

6.) Eliminate the EPA,department of homeland security, etc etc etc.

7.)TERM LIMITS!!!!!

8.) Then BEEF UP our Military—continuously!

This is just a start, should I continue?

Fact is, I’ve worked with a dozen people over my professional career that could fix this mess in less than 5 years with a balanced budget and ZERO DEBT!

Great Post!!!!!
You forgot the Department of (Lack Of) Energy and HUD (one of the most corrupt of all)

You say bring the jobs back home. That is unlikely to happen; however, if the businesses [that are still here in the [over-$250,000-a-year tax bracket] are able to keep their tax cuts wouldn’t they be more likely to increase their work force? Wouldn’t that mean jobs for those who are earnestly seeking them? Of course, they would need to keep the unions out because they constantly demand greater wages and “extra benefits.” That is one of the reasons big businesses went overseas and Mexico in the first place.

According to some cable news channels fifty percent of the population in the US pay NO income taxes so those people will not receive tax cuts anyway.

The generosity of the American people is why God blesses our nation. Our churches,family support centers, and independent volunteer organizations all give of their time, effort, and money to help the underpriveliged here in our country. We also have Medicaid, Aid to Dependent Children, and many other programs to help those in need. Contrary to what our president believes, we are a Christian nation. Giving aid to oppressed countries is the also the American way. On the other hand, I agree we should not help the countries that stab us in the back by harboring terrorists, yet we do it!

We are the most blessed nation on earth. If we want God to continue to bless us we need to elect a president who is a person of faith. If we had such a president we would see this country do a complete turn around!

IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO PLEASE SEND A COUPLE BUCKS TO O’DONNELL WHO JUST WON THE DELAWARE GOP PRIMARY. EVIDENTLY, THE OLD GUARD IN THE GOP DON’T WANT TO SUPPORT HER.

Just because she lied about having a college education,( rec’d it on Sept 1,2010) doesn’t think women should be in military, has been living off of campaign funds,(illegal) didn’t pay her college fees,(they sued her) owes IRS,( they have liens against her) Lied about her last campaign against Biden,(she didn’t win any districts) didn’t pay her employees,(still owes them) thinks that masturbating is wrong, all the while wearing makeup to entice men. What else could be wrong with this hypocrite?? Anticipating a young man coming forward with some racy sex tapes next!! So funny how the repubs want to dictate how you should live your life, and they want the government to enforce their desires… Karl Rove is hammering her, wow, he and I finally agree on something.

COOL!!!
Sounds like she’s eligible for a cabinet position.

alpha, since she doesn’t like masturbating, she sure as heck won’t like the republican senators, who only sit around doing said act and voting no….. Have you heard that Rand Paul knows how to pay for tax breaks but won’t tell anyone untill after the election??? His quote is giving every sane person a great laugh….Have the repubs figured out how to give tax breaks without paying for them?? Thought they were supposed to want to reduce deficit?? Oh, that is second to making the rich,,,,,richer!!!

eyessplatteredshut,
i can only guess how you know that that is all they do!!!