Just how many tax cuts for the rich do the conservatives plan to push for next year?

[Joanne98]

A picture is beginning to develop...

CEO's meet with Obama and want to re-patriot trillions of dollars sitting off shore if they can get A TAX CUT!

Senator Bob Corker keeps getting on CNBC and telling them that we need a 28% flat tax for the rich and that they'll going to hold the debt limit bill hostage in March to get it.

Paul Ryan is changing the rules for "pay as you go" to "cut go" making TAX CUTS free by not requiring them to be paid for!

Now all this, according to them, is to create JOBS by "growing the economy" BUT the corporations are telling all the investors that they're going to pay out their cash stashes in dividends!

Which means they have NO intentions of creating jobs!

It looks like the blood-sucking conservatives are going to suck the last bits of blood out of the country by one last TAX CUT PARTY!

THE LEADERS IN OUR PARTY BETTER GET ON THIS RIGHT NOW!

WE NEED TO LET THEM KNOW THAT ANY DEMOCRAT WHO DOESN'T FIGHT TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH IS GETTING FUCKING FIRED!

[lonestarnot]

1. mmm mmm mmm. What a juicy bone.

[ladjf]

7. They will continue to push for tax cuts as long as the Govt. still

has any money or access to money. They think no further than their greedy selves. nt

[kentuck]

2. Their argument is that taxcuts do not create deficits...

The reality is elsewhere but so are they.

The response is: "So why are you worried about the spending of Barack Obama?" Deficits don't matter. Why have any taxes at all? Let's put everything on the credit card and see how long we last as a country?

[dkf]

3. Obama directed the treasury to review the tax code for loopholes for corporations and individuals.

This is where we can raise taxes without raising rates and it promotes the idea of fairness.

The current tax structure is ridiculously complicated and a playground for accountants and lawyers of tax haters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/us/politics/10tax.html

[Joanne98]

4. That's not going to work. They'll just get the rates lowered now and bring back the loopholes later!

It's a set up!

[dkf]

5. I'm just wishing for the day when the Govt sends you a list of everything reported on your behalf

And you review it, sign it and that's all the taxes you have to cope with.

[Joanne98]

6. They're already talking about it on tax reform sites.

Here's what I'll be watching in tax policy during 2011:

The first question is, will Obama adopt any of the recommendation of his deficit reduction commission chaired by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. They put forward some very bold tax reform proposals -- including a flattening of the personal tax rates and a cut in the corporate tax rate financed by the elimination of many popular tax breaks. Obama can't very well disown all of these proposals so which ones will he include in his budget?

There is a lot of chatter right now that he will include some corporate tax reforms in his budget. This could be a very positive move to make the U.S. more competitive since the U.S. has the second highest corporate tax rate among industrialized countries. And Japan, which has the highest corporate tax rate, is planning to cut their rate by 5 percentage points in 2011, which will make the U.S. number 1 in terms of high corporate rates. The business community will be watching to see what deductions they will be asked to give up in order to lower the corporate tax rate.

It is an open question whether Obama will include any reforms to the individual tax code. The Bowles/Simpson reform proposals actually raised about $1 trillion in new tax revenues for deficit reduction. Republicans will welcome tax reform but reject any tax hike for deficit reduction.

On that note, I'll be watching the budget plan that new Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan puts forward in March. Ryan is the author of a very bold tax and entitlement reform plan called a "Roadmap for America's Future." The question is, how much of that plan will be included in the Republican budget? He got only 15 cosponsors for his legislation, so can he garner the support of the entire Republican caucus for a real budget plan? We'll see.

I expect 2011 to end with a fight over what do about the scheduled expiration of the temporary cut in the payroll tax. I think we will see a replay of this year's debate over allowing a "tax hike on working families." This is the trouble with these temporary tax measures; not only do they cause taxpayers uncertainty, but they make taxpayers political footballs. Moreover, the payroll tax cut issue is wrapped up in the larger issue of funding the Social Security trust fund and that adds another dimension to the whole debate.

Lastly, we should remember that the 2011 tax debate is a prelude to the 2012 presidential election which begins in one year. Both sides will be positioning themselves for that debate, and let's not forget that all of the Bush era tax provisions expire at the end of 2012. But by 2012, they will no longer be the Bush-era tax cuts, they will be labeled the Obama compromise plan. Although Obama has been against "tax cuts for the rich" can he really argue against extending a plan that he signed into law? Stay tuned.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/26933.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TaxPolicyBlog+%28Tax+Foundation+-+Tax+Foundation%27s+%22Tax+Policy+Blog%22%29

[rurallib]

8. I think they are more about hurting the elderly, poor and middle class this year

making them pay for those tax breaks that the rich got.
Don't forget busting the unions.