Will Republicans Risk It?

[Robo]

Looks like we are off to a rocky start CL. It appears you are having a problem with who the liars are. I will be here to correct you at every turn. You're welcome!

Nonpartisan Tax Report Withdrawn After G.O.P. Protest

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economic theory, after Senate Republicans raised concerns about the paper’s findings and wording.

The decision, made in late September against the advice of the agency’s economic team leadership, drew almost no notice at the time. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, cited the study a week and a half after it was withdrawn in a speech on tax policy at the National Press Club.

But it could actually draw new attention to the report, which questions the premise that lowering the top marginal tax rate stimulates economic growth and job creation.

“This has hues of a banana republic,” Mr. Schumer said. “They didn’t like a report, and instead of rebutting it, they had them take it down.”

Republicans have also tried to discredit the private Tax Policy Center ever since the research organization declared that Mitt Romney’s proposal to cut tax rates by 20 percent while protecting the middle class and not increasing the deficit was mathematically impossible. For years, conservatives have pressed the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to factor in robust economic growth when it is asked to calculate the cost of tax cuts to the federal budget.

Congressional aides and outside economists said they were not aware of previous efforts to discredit a study from the research service.

“When their math doesn’t add up, Republicans claim that their vague version of economic growth will somehow magically make up the difference. And when that is refuted, they’re left with nothing more to lean on than charges of bias against nonpartisan experts,” said Representative Sander Levin of Michigan, ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee.

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"The debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from tax cuts."
David Stockman - Director of the Office of Management and Budget for U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=who+pa...&pq=who+pays+the+taxes&sc=8-18&sp=-1&qs=n&sk=

Percentiles Ranked by AGI AGI Threshold on Percentiles Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid
Top 1% $343,927 36.73
Top 5% $154,643 58.66
Top 10% $112,124 70.47
Top 25% $66,193 87.30
Top 50% $32,396 97.75
Bottom 50% <$32,396 2.25
Note: AGI is Adjusted Gross Income
Source: Internal Revenue Service

47% of Americans pay NO income taxes. They suck the government tit. 53% of Americans support 47% of Americans.

“Socialism only works until you run out of other people’s money.” (Margret Thatcher)

 

[Robo]

There is no tax cut on the table. May e someone can show me whose taxes would be getting cut

You got it!!! It’s all about “RAISING” taxes and “CUTTING” nothing! The black communist isn’t offering a cut in anything. His tactic and objective is to badger the Republicans into a tax hike or go over the cliff. He really wants to go over the cliff because he can pin that on the Republicans and refill the Congress with Democrats in the next election. He couldn’t care less about the economy.

 

[cawacko]

You got it!!! It’s all about “RAISING” taxes and “CUTTING” nothing! The black communist isn’t offering a cut in anything. His tactic and objective is to badger the Republicans into a tax hike or go over the cliff. He really wants to go over the cliff because he can pin that on the Republicans and refill the Congress with Democrats in the next election. He couldn’t care less about the economy.

'the black communist'? wtf is that?

 

[Howey]

'the black communist'? wtf is that?

It's a delusional comment by a crazy right wing racist.

 

[Robo]

Isn’t “YOUR” President “black” and a “communist?” He is if you live in America!

 

[Haiku]

I thought it was about passing a bill that would continue the present tax rate for those who make $250,000 and below. If the wingers won't do it then everyones tax rate goes up with those that have funneled the money upwards due to Bush tax policy...something the wingers want to make permanent. They like income inequality unseen since the 1930's...it pleases them because (among other things) it proves the prosperity gospel..."those with the money are God's anointed". Who needs democracy...small d or large??

 

[cawacko]

It's a delusional comment by a crazy right wing racist.

Really? So to even reference that the President is black is now racist? And Haiku agrees with you? Intersting. So is one's race or ethnicity never to be mentioned about anyone again otherwise it be a racist reference?

 

[cawacko]

Isn’t “YOUR” President “black” and a “communist?” He is if you live in America!

Good to see you're another idiot troll on the board, just as I thought.

 

[Haiku]

Really? So to even reference that the President is black is now racist? And Haiku agrees with you? Intersting. So is one's race or ethnicity never to be mentioned about anyone again otherwise it be a racist reference?

Comprehension....you can't recognize stupidity like this...

Isn’t “YOUR” President “black” and a “communist?” He is if you live in America!

Pretty damned ignorant. ^^^^^^^^

 

[cawacko]

Comprehension....you can't recognize stupidity like this...



Pretty damned ignorant. ^^^^^^^^

because it is an ignorant statement doesn't make it a racist one.

 

[Howey]

Really? So to even reference that the President is black is now racist? And Haiku agrees with you? Intersting. So is one's race or ethnicity never to be mentioned about anyone again otherwise it be a racist reference?

Taken in context and considering the ignorance displayed, the correlation is there.

because it is an ignorant statement doesn't make it a racist one.

Why even mention his race? Yes, the president is black. So be it. He used the word black in a derogatory manner along with referring to him as "communist", also in a derogatory manner.

That the comment was racist is so apparent that even you should have figured it out.

 

[cawacko]

Taken in context and considering the ignorance displayed, the correlation is there.



Why even mention his race? Yes, the president is black. So be it. He used the word black in a derogatory manner along with referring to him as "communist", also in a derogatory manner.

That the comment was racist is so apparent that even you should have figured it out.

When has calling someone a communist ever been a compliment?

 

[Howey]

When has calling someone a communist ever been a compliment?

Thanks for agreeing with me!

 

[cawacko]

Thanks for agreeing with me!

Making a deragatory remark towards someone doesn't mean that remark is racist.

 

[Bfgrn]

http://www.bing.com/search?q=who+pa...&pq=who+pays+the+taxes&sc=8-18&sp=-1&qs=n&sk=

Percentiles Ranked by AGI AGI Threshold on Percentiles Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid
Top 1% $343,927 36.73
Top 5% $154,643 58.66
Top 10% $112,124 70.47
Top 25% $66,193 87.30
Top 50% $32,396 97.75
Bottom 50% <$32,396 2.25
Note: AGI is Adjusted Gross Income
Source: Internal Revenue Service

47% of Americans pay NO income taxes. They suck the government tit. 53% of Americans support 47% of Americans.

“Socialism only works until you run out of other people’s money.” (Margret Thatcher)

So much for the classical liberal bullshit... you are just another run of the mill right winger...just as I suspected...a social Darwinist.

If there is a citizenry on this planet that does NOT have an entitlement mentality, it is the American people. American workers take less vacation time than any other people in the world. American workers take pride in the quality of their work and their work ethic.

What Romney said and is being parroted by the right is a gross insult and reveals a dangerous mindset. It reeks of contempt for middle class working people and the poor.

Who are the 47%?

Federal budget and Census data show that, in 2010, 91 percent of the benefit dollars from entitlement and other mandatory programs went to the elderly (people 65 and over), the seriously disabled, and members of working households. People who are neither elderly nor disabled — and do not live in a working household — received only 9 percent of the benefits.

Moreover, the vast bulk of that 9 percent goes for medical care, unemployment insurance benefits (which individuals must have a significant work history to receive), Social Security survivor benefits for the children and spouses of deceased workers, and Social Security benefits for retirees between ages 62 and 64. Seven out of the 9 percentage points go for one of these four purposes.

80 percent of the workforce has seen their wages decline in real terms over the last quarter-century, and the average household has seen 40 percent of its wealth disappear during the Great Recession. Through it all, families never asked for a handout from anyone, especially Washington. They were left to go on their own, working harder, squeezing nickels, and taking care of themselves. But their economic boats have been taking on water for years, and now the crisis has swamped millions of middle class families. ref ref

"Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this country—they are America."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[Zombie Jesus]

I have already put my increase aside anticipating it. I agree with you once they get a taste they will not vote for these idiots again

WTF? Who're you kidding? You've never disagreed with Ballgazer you fuck'n hump...her fat ass posts and you're their lapping it up like a giddy school girl hooked on phonics.

 

[Cancel 2016.11]

When has calling someone a communist ever been a compliment?

I have used it as a compliment. I like hot communist guys. Not for anything serious because they never have any money to buy you any Michael Kors handbags for Christmas...but still...

 

[cawacko]

I have used it as a compliment. I like hot communist guys. Not for anything serious because they never have any
money to buy you any Michael Kors handbags for Christmas...but still...

Maybe you are running in the wrong Communist circles? There's got to be some good Communist guys still around who have money.

 

[Howey]

I have used it as a compliment. I like hot communist guys. Not for anything serious because they never have any money to buy you any Michael Kors handbags for Christmas...but still...

For those of us who remember what the Cold War was...

I remember the only images I ever saw of the people of the USSR were dowdy fat women and slovenly men, all dressed in shabby gray clothing, looking miserable and downtrodden.

As soon as the wall came down and real pictures came flooding out, the world was shocked. They looked just like us!

Ah...the wonders of propaganda!