Continuing Disappointment With MTP and David Gregory (and taxes)

[liberalmike27]

First, while he didn't give Kathleen Sebelious the time to even finish a sentence, he allowed Mitch McConnel all the time he wanted, and didn't interrupt him every time.

And I really get the feeling the show tends to continue pushing to the right, disprespecting health care. In the McConnel segment, Gregory failed to point out the two wars of choice, and their influence on the massive debt. He failed to point out the tax cut for the richest, the Inheritance tax cut, and all the no-bid contracts handed out, without a peep from him during the Bush administration. And we are witnessing now, that they did not create jobs, so that is a canard pushed by republicans. How is it now, that he seems suddenly concerned with the debt/deficit?

And he seems to be whining about the tax increase, on himself obviously, since his new position has thrust him into that range, if he wasn't there before. Still, it seems, the media in general tends to portray the house version as a tax on everyone, when it is only on the upper crust. And they continue to let this idea exist that taxing the wealthy hurts jobs, when certainly taxes on sales, gas, property, utilities, toll roads, and yes, even the new regressive ideas of soda and twinkey taxes, hurt our economy far, far more.

Both republicans and some democrats have floated the idea of not collecting FICA/SS taxes on the first ten thousand earned for both employers and employees. This is a good idea, and for the most part it'd be spent right away, which is where the true problem lies in the economy. Then of course, to cure the actual problem, we need to remove the cap on the same tax, so the rich pay as much as the poor, and middle class.

Like it or not, we are massively in debt. We will have to come up with a way, with some tax, or taxes, to pay for it. The quesion we all need to ask is, have we all been brainwashed into believing that millionaires are going to suffer so greatly that we are willing to absorb the taxes, or do we want them to pay at least an equal amount to us, and start focusing not on the taxes, but on what is left in their salary after the taxes.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Good thing the Dems are back in charge. Now we can get heard on these shows, hey....whoops!

Doesn't seem to matter who is in charge, doesn't it! Media is owned by the Right wing, so the deck is still stacked against us.

[chelsea0011]

2. Gregory down't want to pay more taxes? What a shock. Problem with

all these talking heads is that they get payed so much it is their salaries that will be hurt the most. So they get a free shot at putting it all down and want us to believe they are being fair. BS!