Thread: Tax increase on the middle class?

Have you figured out how much less you will be bringing home this year vs. what you earn?

CURL: Obama supporters shocked, angry at new tax increases - Washington Times

Yup gotta read the fine print on those "tax holidays" bc they end eventually.

Nobody really talked about the payroll tax holiday during the elections either because both sides knew it had to end and didn't want to piss off their voters.

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

Nuck, how come no repubs have introduced legislation to extend your tax holiday?

(Read the article)

A few from what I can see but not many from either side. I do not understand why you are asking the question though. I was not trying to make the expiration of the tax holiday anyone's fault. Hell as coors already said, neither candidate talked about it and everyone knew it was coming.

I just think it is funny the big dose of WTF people are going to get when they open their next check. Most certainly when they probably thought they were protected because Barry won the election. Because we all know he has us covered.

It is all a fucking scam any way. I could give a shit about having to pay an extra $4,000ish into the system this year if the budget was anything that resembled heading towards balancing or if I thought for a second I would ever see a penny of the hundreds of thousands of dollars I have invested and will have invested into SSI by the time I retire.

Originally Posted by MaFioSo

Well somebody has to pay for this..... Really, it's difficult to believe how easy it was for the last two presidents to run up those deficits. It's even more difficult to believe that despite this people still go to the polling stations and vote these assholes in. Assholes because they think it's okay to put an enormous financial burden on us, our children and our grandchildren for the financial gain of a few.

What happened to the days when people actually had to make and earn money legitimately, not lobby congress to give them trillions of dollars of tax payer money, when it doesn't benefit the taxpayers. What these politicians have done is down right criminal......now you, I and future generations will have to pay for it.

The media decides who are the elected officials are in this country now, not the people. Most certainly the president.

Originally Posted by Nuckle

The media decides who are the elected officials are in this country now, not the people. Most certainly the president.

I think it's sorta that way, yeah. But more that many people have allowed The Media (who/whatever that is) to become their vote proxy. In effect, many people want to be told who to vote for and have decided to let Media X (or Y, or Z) tell them.

Making a decision is hard. Economics, law-making, social policy, and foreign policy are hard. I think that part of what people want is someone (or some thing) they can trust. Those media outlets that I personally think are the worst are also the ones that run a continuous hard-sell on "trust".

I don't think the problem is new, and I don't know how to solve it. I also don't have anything upbeat to say on the matter.

Damnit.

Cheers,


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