Rescinding the Bush Tax Cuts on the Top 2% Would Pay Off the Entire Social Security Trust Fund.

[Hannah Bell]

Just so you know where these asshats are coming from.

So when they tell you you have to work longer & get less, tell them to fuck themselves.

It can't stand.

[tabatha]

1. This is NOT PayGo.

I don't know how the CBO could approve it.

[roguevalley]

10. huffingtonpost just listed that Obama isn't going to do away

with the tax cuts. He's a fucker, pure and simple.

[Raster]

2. Recommended and Kicked!

The US is in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and Congress is seriously considering giving tax breaks to billionaires?

This is the line in the sand. President Obama, if he is a man of the people, must stand tall and firm. The bush* tax cuts *MUST* expire. What kind of mad man gives tax breaks to the rich while fighting two wars? Answer: the kind of mad man that brings this country to the brink of ruin.

[Hannah Bell]

3. agreed. the bush tax cuts, most of which went to the top 2%, are the main cause

of the deficit.

it's madness, & it's going to mean more cuts for everyone else.

[Raster]

7. This should truly be the citizens line in the sand. We should target ANY AND EVERY

...politician that seeks to extend the bush* tax cuts. And it's time for President Obama to take a leadership role on this. This could recapture the faith in his Presidency and his promise of change.

[dkf]

4. Yet taxes on the top 2% doesn't begin to get us out of our budget deficit

Which puts our current deficit into perspective.

[Hannah Bell]

5. it pays off social security. which does indeed more than "begin" to reduce the deficit.

not that deficit reduction is especially important during the deepest recession since WW2.

[Ernesto]

6. works for me.... nt

[Starry Messenger]

8. But that would punish rich people.

We can't have that.

[yodermon]

9. even though they'd still get to be rich

making it doubly whiny

[TheKentuckian]

11. Add in that we're talking an extra 4 grand per 100k after 250k

and the whine level jacks up a lot.

Meanwhile, they'd not bat an eye to see the bottom bracket jack back from 10 to 15 percent, who will pay every fucking cent while their accountant gets them some loopholes.

Guess what rich, if you invest back into your country and economy the tax code rewards it and your ability to prosper multiplies.