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The original question of this post is still kinda just sitting out there...
If the Bush tax cuts run out...the middle and lower class are going to be nailed hard by it. And yet, the left side of the political spectrum has pretended that it was only for the "rich".
Just watching the rhetoric here: it seems to me that what the left REALLY want to do is let the tax cuts run out ONLY for the rich. And keep the tax rates the same for the lower and middle class.
And according to the numbers that I have seen...that will only increase revenue by something like 40 billion dollars TOTAL. The federal govt. spends over 30 billion dollars a month! So that big "increase" in revenue isn't jack shit.
The government needs to STOP spending.
That's what kills me. While they are on television babbling about the "crisis" and how taxes need to be raised and everyone do their "fair share"...they haven't slowed down spending at all!
Not a bit! If it's such a crisis then why aren't they shutting shit down. Stop flying to Columbia for summits, stop occupying 120 something countries with our military, cut the salary of the President and Congress, stop throwing big dinners and parties, etc.
Nope...instead they propose plans to "lower the deficit" by 1.5 trillion dollars over TEN YEARS!!! That's $150 billion a year. A drop in the bucket.
They ALL need to be voted out and some sanity brought to that fairy tale land of free money known as Washington D.C.
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