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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 03:50 PM Original message |
No Tax Holiday for the Working Poor: 42% of taxpayers will actually pay more taxes in 2011! |
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Foo Fighter (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. Why do you hate Obama? n/t |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 03:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. You're joking. Right? Do you think the writer hates Obama? |
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Foo Fighter (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
35. LOL, yes, of course I was joking. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
2. recommend |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
3. Again, was the deal actually better than no deal at all? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. me too. the poor pay more, but it doesn't bring significant revenue. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 05:03 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. Not to mention |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Slightly higher taxes vs significantly higher taxes. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:43 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. For WHOM? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:46 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. No the people in the 42% stated in the OP. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:00 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. The deal is done. The bill was signed. eom |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:10 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. And Obama signed it because.... |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:15 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Letting the tax cuts expire is not a possibility at this point |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:30 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Hardly. For more people the difference is negligble. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 09:53 PM Response to Reply #29 |
41. Opening the door to the destruction of Social Security. That's some compromise! |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 04:09 AM Response to Reply #29 |
43. Yet it is still is still interesting that |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
51. Fiscal Responsibility verses Fiscal Irresponsibility |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Don't tilt against the illusion.. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. No deal at all is no longer an option. The deal was done. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:16 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Obviously |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:32 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. How do you figure? |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 03:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
53. He could have gotten the Republicans to vote on a unempoyment package |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. Bogus stat. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. without the compromise, it would have been Republicans fault |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. "The Republicans were unwilling to extend MWPC" When did they win control of the government? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. No but it takes 60 votes. |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. Another meaningless non-sequitur.. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:45 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. 60 votes. |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. Politically... |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 08:16 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Politically maybe, but not better for the country, not better for the unemployed, not better for |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 08:20 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. With most poor people.. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 08:32 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. No compromise means poor would be paying SIGNIFICANTLY more taxes. |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #36 |
54. Sorry, but that sounds a bit too like enabler talk |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
25. Which still leaves people who earn less than $20K paying more in 2011 vs 2010 |
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GReedDiamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
6. I followed the link, but the page now "couldn't be found"...nt |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Here's a different link to the same article. |
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GReedDiamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 05:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Thanks, BBI, I appreciate that...nt |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 05:52 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. No problem. I don't know why the first link stopped working. |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
9. Ahh. The Great Compromise = Fuck the poor on behalf of the rich |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
19. The Making Work pay credit was always intended as a one-shot stimulus. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:49 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Neither were the Bush cuts but here they are. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 06:51 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. At a minimum. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 11:36 PM Response to Reply #24 |
42. I don't know where you got your statistics, |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 10:40 AM Response to Reply #42 |
48. I think you misunderstood. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. You're right -- thanks for the clarification, and the numbers. n/t |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 07:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. No, that is not the real question. |
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Still a Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
39. Worst case, we're talking about $3.90 a week. C'mon. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-27-10 09:15 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Yeah, and it's just the paupers anyway. Who cares? |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 09:44 AM Response to Reply #39 |
44. What economic stimulus are you writing about? |
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Still a Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 10:37 AM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Oh goodie another brilliant firedoglake analysis |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #44 |
50. The payroll tax holiday is $120B not $60B. n/t |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
45. Oh, but just the other day, someone was saying that the bottom |
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katnapped (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 10:07 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Exactly! |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-10 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
49. But Michael Vick is a great football player - why do you hate Obama? nt |
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