First, your cut-n-paste left out the chart.




The fundamental question is does the government know best or people know best as to how to spend their money.

Bush gave consumers tax rebates to increase consumer spending and save the economy. It failed.
Obama created a massive stimulus package to fund government jobs. It failed.

During this entire span of time, the Bush tax cuts were still in effect. Do we think removing money from consumers by eliminating the Bush tax cuts will increase spending and help the economy? Only if the government can spend it better than the actual wage earners.

The tax cuts definitely affect small businesses and S-corporations but not really huge multinationals. If you take more money from a business via taxes, will they:

A. Increase prices.
B. Cut costs including staff and misc spending
C. Do nothing and eat it and potentially lose profitability
D. Hire more people to process the new taxation paperwork thus creating jobs

Using Obamalogic on saving or creating 3,000,000 jobs, had the Bush tax cuts been eliminated in 2007, businesses would have eliminated 26,485,000 jobs instead of 13,000,000 so, in fact, the Bush tax cuts saved 13 million jobs in the last two years of his term in office.

Typically the drum beats to pound taxes to the moon come from the zero liability so-called tax payers who - after they file their short form every year - get 100% of what they paid back. And for a lot of them, an "earned income credit", which of course they didn't really earn. They're just taking an extra shovel full out of the tax bin beyond what they paid in. I'm surprised this form of socialism has lasted as long as it has. Hell, I didn't even know EIC existed until I heard a woman in a store talking about it 10 years ago.

And just to save someone the copy and paste time, I know there are 40 millionaires who have volunteered to pay higher taxes. Isn't that special? That means there are roughly 7.8 million millionaires (2009 numbers) who DIIDN'T ask to pay higher taxes.

And for those 40 who do want to pay higher taxes, they don't need to do it by government mandate. They can write a check today to the IRS and send it in. Then send a note to Yabadoo News and PMSNBC with a photocopy of the $1 million check they voluntarily poured down a rathole. That'll impress everyone.

=d>

Logically it makes perfect sense that they do this. If the government coffers are larger, the odds are greater that the money will be redistributed to buy votes rather than put towards balancing budgets and paying down debt.

In reality if you keep givin gall the jobs to other countries someday they will all be gone and then we can all go on welfare and smoke and drink all the time !

Rick,,

When they Tax your SSI and Medicare even more ,then maybe you'll understand.I own a small business.I am a S Corp. I will affected...

But,if someone ( like you) really pays no tax ,why should they care ?

I want MY Money !!!!!!!!!!!!

wheel

over taxed and under appreciated,,,

Pedro loves you....😟

Pedro is one of the hardest working people I've ever known.
He is honest ,reliable and trust worthy.Unlike a commie Senior Citizen we all know,Pedro expects nobody to provide for his living.
I kid about Pedro but I do admire his work ethic...


wheel,

To be honest wheel, Rick doesn't really care if you're unemployed and starving. Just so long as he gets his, and that you don't get yours.

That's how most liberals are.

What a moronic thing to say. Dude, that's not just ignorant, it's literally something only a moron would say. Your other posts pretty much are all full of 8th grade foolishness as well. What are you, like 14?

Remember when Laverne or Shirley woudl say something like "that's just disgusting and stupid" and then Squiggy would burst through the door and say "Hello"?

Milwaukee outrage!

We're gonna do it!
Give us any chance, we'll take it.
Give us any rule, we'll break it.
We're gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin' it our way.
Nothin's gonna turn us back now,
Straight ahead and on the track now.
We're gonna make our dreams come true,
Doin' it our way.
There is nothing we won't try,
Never heard the word impossible.
This time there's no stopping us.
We're gonna do it.
On your mark, get set, and go now,
Got a dream and we just know now,
We're gonna make our dream come true.
And we'll do it our way, yes our way.
Make all our dreams come true,
And do it our way, yes our way,
Make all our dreams come true
For me and you.

....is what the dems were singing prior to the November elections.

Wow, DS, what a righteous retort. You’re my hero dude. (Once again, laughing my arse off at the hilarious liberal).

Actually, Rickamaven is much older than 14. But I agree, he is a moron.