What should we call the Bush "tax cut"?

[ButterflyBlood]

since we all know that is a very misleading term. I think "welfare for the rich" is pretty accurate, except unlike people that actually need it the rich don't even have to apply to receive these welfare handouts.

[Birthmark]

1. Theft from our children

[FlemingsGhost]

2. Cut? More like a gaping wound...

They are bleeding us dry.

[carpetbagger]

3. Putting the bills on the credit card.

Nothing more, nothing less. What the people who have the extra cash (and very little of it came in those checks) have bought with it, I have no idea, but that's what it is.

[Myra]

4. Soup kitchen for billionaires

...

[Toucano]

5. A Tax Dance!

Just some ideas to inspire the more creative.

How about:

Deficit Enhancement Program. Calls to mind the Healthy Forests Initiative.

Or
Wage-Earner Screw.

Or
Operation Surplus Reduction.

It isn't a hand out. It isn't a hand up. It's a hand over! As it "Hand it over!"

Or
Enrich the Rich!

[Mechatanketra]

6. It's the debt bump.

One key to the 'tax cut' is, like any GOP plan, it's 'retroactive' (at least, for certain entities -- not you, of course ...) When you 'cut' taxes retroactively, basically, you're really just handing out money from the treasury that, if previous budgets were balanced, has already been spent

(Imagine I pay you $100 a week, and you naturally budget to spend that $100 each week to cover your needs. Then 5 weeks later I institute a $30 "retroactive pay cut", and insist you fork over $150 bucks on the spot. Whammo! Instantly you're at least $50 in default even after payday -- I might as well just mug you.)

So that's what we've got: the Bush debt bump. Fun, ain't it?

[radfringe]

7. I refer to it as

Wealthy-fare

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Weapons Of Mass Deductions!

For his campaign Con-tributors!

[JNelson6563]

9. Bush Tax Scam

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[0rganism]

10. How about "Looting the Nation's Future"?

"Piracy"?
"Spend-and-spend conservatives"?
"Dude, where's my pension?"

[dusty64]

11. Donor reward plan.

how about one we heard endlessly during the Clinton years "Quid Pro Quo". Funny how who NEVER hear it now.

[Pepperbelly]

12. Reverse Robin Hood Scheme nt

[lanlady]

13. Carol Moseley Braun had a good term--

--in last night's debate. She called it "borrow and pass the buck."