I say we go back to the same tax rates we had under Bill Clinton ASAP

[Crazy Dave]

Back then I made $15k more a year than I do now.

My health insurance premiums for the entire family were $2.5k less per year than what I currently pay for myself alone.

Get me back to where I was ten years ago and I can afford to pay the taxes plus some.

[ladjf]

1. That's way too good of an idea to get any traction in our current

political environment. nt

[Crazy Dave]

4. I can't wait to hear the stump speeches in 2012

"Sure we wasted our majority control of both houses and we did very little for Main St. as far as jobs and health care but it would have been worse under republicans".

Sorry. People aren't buying the blame game shit next election. I think that's why there's term limits. So each president can blame the one before for all the problems the middle-class has and why the rich keep getting richer.

[RockaFowler]

2. Me too

Plus my husband had a job because we were actually making things in this country in the 90's

[quinnox]

3. As ladjf said, way too sensible

Its far more important to give the ultra rich needless tax cuts and then cut social security and medicare benefits for the common folks instead of raising taxes....

<sarcasm>

[Crazy Dave]

6. Even the democrats are now calling Social Security an "entitlement"

Nothing could be further than the truth. It was one of the only self-sustaining programs the government has ever created. If goverment would keep their filthy hands out of it and quit using it as a slush fund we'd probably be able to raise benefits for seniors.

[BeFree]

5. A solution? KnR

Hah, people don't want solutions, they want controversy.

Of course, Clinton was a controversy, eh? Even a bunch of Dems railed against him.

[Winterblues]

7. We get the EXACT same argument as Bill Clinton got when he imposed those taxes.

"You can't raise taxes during a recession"... Every single Republican repeated that mantra and voted in lock-step against Clinton's first Budget. The Budget did manage to get passed and the Middle class got a nice tax cut while the wealthy got increased taxes. The US went on to experience the "Greatest Economic Expansion in History" proving everything the republicans said to be completely false but yet we hear the EXACT same rhetoric and this time our Leaders seem to be accepting it as fact instead of the LIE it actually is..

[jtrockville]

8. Whaaaat? We should implement policies that lead to prosperity

for common folk?