Democrats Propose Scrapping Bush Tax Cuts Debate

[lib2DaBone]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/super-committee-democrats-taxes_n_1088407.html

WASHINGTON -- Under their latest proposal to the deficit reduction super committee, Democrats would agree to undertake comprehensive tax reform that included a pledge to avoid letting Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy expire. According to a private document, the authenticity of which was confirmed by a leadership aide, super committee Democrats are eyeing between $950 billion and $1 trillion in revenue raisers and tax hikes as part of a $2.3 trillion deficit reduction package. Between $300 billion ...
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Max Baucus at his best. I'll bet Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson are not far away. Corporate Whores one and all.

And guess who is going to pay all these new taxes?

The first 10 guesses don't count. (you can be sure the top 1% won't pay a dime)

[Philosopher King]

1. "And guess who is going to pay all these new taxes? "

The same ones who always pay them--the end-user.

[mmonk]

2. I predict guillotines will be the growth industry of the future.

[Magoo48]

3. This gang is sinking into irrelevance fast.

Their ideas are corrupted with money and stink of special interests. While they take the stage for their turn at the endless circle jerk that is DC politics, real people suffer real anxiety. I hope young people somehow push these withered, self-serving fossils aside and can create a beginning for themselves, and by way of them, all of us.

As the saying goes, "Out with the old, in with the new."
Maybe we could get Steven King to put a dome over the Capitol at the next SOTU address.

Sorry about spelling, it's 3am here...

[Faux pas]

4. Why not have a nationwide tax strike? They don't pay, we don't

pay. Can they imprison all of the 99%?