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#1379458 - 12/26/12 04:47 PM

Congratulations Boehner

twocats
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So by agreeing to raise taxes on anyone, Boehner has antagonized his base. By refusing to raise taxes on enough upper-income Americans, Boehner has antagonized those in the middle. Most Americans consider $50,000 a middle-class income, and the speaker is seen as trying to protect those who make five times that amount.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-rasmu...d#ixzz2GCGCfaGI

Edited by twocats (12/26/12 04:53 PM)

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#1379460 - 12/26/12 05:03 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
Rascal Rascal Gold Member Registered: 06/05/00 Posts: 16948 Loc: Brewerton, NY, USA	You didn't deserve the last tax cut. So now it is time for you to pay up. Letting the tax cuts expire on everyone is the only way to increase the low and middle class contributions to the contry's fiscal needs. This is the only way if Obama willnot cut spending on social programs at all... _________________________ [image]http://www.jeep4ever.ca/images/graphics/bouncing_red_TJ_03.gif[/image]
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#1379473 - 12/26/12 07:09 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
sands sands Senior Member Registered: 09/05/05 Posts: 6020 Loc: NY	Originally Posted By: twocats So by agreeing to raise taxes on anyone, Boehner has antagonized his base. By refusing to raise taxes on enough upper-income Americans, Boehner has antagonized those in the middle. Most Americans consider $50,000 a middle-class income, and the speaker is seen as trying to protect those who make five times that amount. Why not let the Bush tax cuts expire? They were just tax cuts for the rich. Their expiring won't effect the taxes of lower and middle class tax payers, right?
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#1379563 - 12/27/12 11:55 AM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: sands]
twocats twocats Silver Member Registered: 02/09/10 Posts: 10778 Loc: NYS	Originally Posted By: sands Originally Posted By: twocats So by agreeing to raise taxes on anyone, Boehner has antagonized his base. By refusing to raise taxes on enough upper-income Americans, Boehner has antagonized those in the middle. Most Americans consider $50,000 a middle-class income, and the speaker is seen as trying to protect those who make five times that amount. Why not let the Bush tax cuts expire? They were just tax cuts for the rich. Their expiring won't effect the taxes of lower and middle class tax payers, right? Stick to guns. Your comment here is wayyyy off. _________________________ Dismiss whatever insults your own soul. Walt Whitman
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#1379565 - 12/27/12 11:56 AM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: Rascal]
twocats twocats Silver Member Registered: 02/09/10 Posts: 10778 Loc: NYS	Originally Posted By: Rascal You didn't deserve the last tax cut. So now it is time for you to pay up. Letting the tax cuts expire on everyone is the only way to increase the low and middle class contributions to the contry's fiscal needs. This is the only way if Obama willnot cut spending on social programs at all... $500,000 a year may sound like a lot, but I'm hardly rich! http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop-saying/ _________________________ Dismiss whatever insults your own soul. Walt Whitman
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#1379580 - 12/27/12 02:25 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
Rascal Rascal Gold Member Registered: 06/05/00 Posts: 16948 Loc: Brewerton, NY, USA	Why we can never again trust the democrats with the fiscal responsibility of the United States... How Democrats stopped worrying and learned to love the Bush tax cuts _________________________ [image]http://www.jeep4ever.ca/images/graphics/bouncing_red_TJ_03.gif[/image]
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#1379591 - 12/27/12 03:32 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: Rascal]
Timbo Timbo Senior Member Registered: 07/18/12 Posts: 3095 Loc: CNY	Originally Posted By: Rascal Why we can never again trust the democrats with the fiscal responsibility of the United States... How Democrats stopped worrying and learned to love the Bush tax cuts Yeah, let's all take the fiscal advice from the the policy makers that created the financial calamity we're in. "Some AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy. More than twenty AEI scholars and fellows served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Lynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, now an AEI senior fellow; former Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an AEI visiting fellow; and former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, now an AEI visiting scholar. Other prominent individuals affiliated with AEI include Kevin Hassett, Frederick W. Kagan, Leon Kass, Charles Murray, Michael Novak, Norman J. Ornstein, Richard Perle, Radek Sikorski, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Peter J. Wallison." - Wkikpedia Bribing scientist to 'massage' Climate Change findings, Taking $1.6 million from ExxonMobile and firing conservative commentator David Frum for criticizing Republicans for losing the election by failing to bargain with Democrats on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. These think-tank 'geniuses' have come up with some of the stupidest statements since, well... Bush. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute I think I'll pass. _________________________ Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
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#1379603 - 12/27/12 05:28 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: Timbo]
twocats twocats Silver Member Registered: 02/09/10 Posts: 10778 Loc: NYS	Find out how much the House's current unwillingness to work will cost your family. http://interactive.taxfoundation.org/taxcalc/ _________________________ Dismiss whatever insults your own soul. Walt Whitman
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#1379613 - 12/27/12 07:36 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
twocats twocats Silver Member Registered: 02/09/10 Posts: 10778 Loc: NYS	With giant economic issues looming over our country such as the debt ceiling and the fiscal cliff, President Obama and the Senate are back at work trying to avoid possibly sending our country into another recession.... The House, led by Republican House Speaker Boehner, have however decided to remain on vacation until Sunday. And that's just about all that really needs to be said about House Republicans and their "leadership". _________________________ Dismiss whatever insults your own soul. Walt Whitman
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#1379697 - 12/28/12 01:52 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
Timbo Timbo Senior Member Registered: 07/18/12 Posts: 3095 Loc: CNY	Originally Posted By: twocats So by agreeing to raise taxes on anyone, Boehner has antagonized his base. By refusing to raise taxes on enough upper-income Americans, Boehner has antagonized those in the middle. Most Americans consider $50,000 a middle-class income, and the speaker is seen as trying to protect those who make five times that amount. Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-rasmu...d#ixzz2GCGCfaGI Isn't Irony a cruel mistress? Rasmusssen is the most conservatively biased pollster out there. Ah, the little comforts in life. _________________________ Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
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#1379698 - 12/28/12 01:59 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: Timbo]
twocats twocats Silver Member Registered: 02/09/10 Posts: 10778 Loc: NYS	That's why I found such joy in posting that poll. I fondly recall how many times my pre-election polls were mocked by those living in the bubble. No need to say "told ya so!" $\:\)$ _________________________ Dismiss whatever insults your own soul. Walt Whitman
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#1379708 - 12/28/12 03:16 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
Timbo Timbo Senior Member Registered: 07/18/12 Posts: 3095 Loc: CNY	Originally Posted By: twocats That's why I found such joy in posting that poll. I fondly recall how many times my pre-election polls were mocked by those living in the bubble. No need to say "told ya so!" $\:\)$ No need, but fun none-the-less! _________________________ Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
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#1379713 - 12/28/12 03:25 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
sands sands Senior Member Registered: 09/05/05 Posts: 6020 Loc: NY	Originally Posted By: twocats Originally Posted By: sands Originally Posted By: twocats So by agreeing to raise taxes on anyone, Boehner has antagonized his base. By refusing to raise taxes on enough upper-income Americans, Boehner has antagonized those in the middle. Most Americans consider $50,000 a middle-class income, and the speaker is seen as trying to protect those who make five times that amount. Why not let the Bush tax cuts expire? They were just tax cuts for the rich. Their expiring won't effect the taxes of lower and middle class tax payers, right? Stick to guns. Your comment here is wayyyy off. How can a tax break for the rich expiring have any effect on the poor and middle class? Please elaborate and include citations, where applicable. Thanks. (thanks Timbo)
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#1379715 - 12/28/12 03:27 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: sands]
twocats twocats Silver Member Registered: 02/09/10 Posts: 10778 Loc: NYS	Originally Posted By: sands Originally Posted By: twocats Originally Posted By: sands Originally Posted By: twocats So by agreeing to raise taxes on anyone, Boehner has antagonized his base. By refusing to raise taxes on enough upper-income Americans, Boehner has antagonized those in the middle. Most Americans consider $50,000 a middle-class income, and the speaker is seen as trying to protect those who make five times that amount. Why not let the Bush tax cuts expire? They were just tax cuts for the rich. Their expiring won't effect the taxes of lower and middle class tax payers, right? Stick to guns. Your comment here is wayyyy off. How can a tax break for the rich expiring have any effect on the poor and middle class? Please elaborate and include citations, where applicable. Thanks. (thanks Timbo) You are the one saying it is a tax break only for the rich. I can't justify your false claim. Good luck to you. _________________________ Dismiss whatever insults your own soul. Walt Whitman
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#1379723 - 12/28/12 04:08 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
Timbo Timbo Senior Member Registered: 07/18/12 Posts: 3095 Loc: CNY	Originally Posted By: twocats Originally Posted By: sands Originally Posted By: twocats Originally Posted By: sands Originally Posted By: twocats So by agreeing to raise taxes on anyone, Boehner has antagonized his base. By refusing to raise taxes on enough upper-income Americans, Boehner has antagonized those in the middle. Most Americans consider $50,000 a middle-class income, and the speaker is seen as trying to protect those who make five times that amount. Why not let the Bush tax cuts expire? They were just tax cuts for the rich. Their expiring won't effect the taxes of lower and middle class tax payers, right? Stick to guns. Your comment here is wayyyy off. How can a tax break for the rich expiring have any effect on the poor and middle class? Please elaborate and include citations, where applicable. Thanks. (thanks Timbo) You are the one saying it is a tax break only for the rich. I can't justify your false claim. Good luck to you. C'mon sands. Now you're just channeling Harley. _________________________ Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
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#1379724 - 12/28/12 04:13 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
sands sands Senior Member Registered: 09/05/05 Posts: 6020 Loc: NY	Originally Posted By: twocats Originally Posted By: sands How can a tax break for the rich expiring have any effect on the poor and middle class? Please elaborate and include citations, where applicable. Thanks. (thanks Timbo) You are the one saying it is a tax break only for the rich. Just me http://www.pejnews.com/index.php?option=...news&Itemid=217 http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1504521 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Economics/Bush_TaxCut_Rich.html http://www.topix.com/forum/city/oklahoma-city-ok/T51DP3C9CEB1EAQEQ http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20121110011153AAsjZ4q http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0307-07.htm http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/25/bush-tax-cuts-what-youd-pay-under-rival-plans/ http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/01/07_Rich.html http://theweek.com/article/index/206425/could-a-peoples-tax-cut-save-the-democrats http://dreamact.info/forum/showthread.php?t=18477
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#1379731 - 12/28/12 05:18 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: sands]
twocats twocats Silver Member Registered: 02/09/10 Posts: 10778 Loc: NYS	I guess you answered your own question. WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The international terror group known as Al Qaeda announced its dissolution today, saying that “our mission of destroying the American economy is now in the capable hands of the U.S. Congress.” In an official statement published on the group’s website, the current leader of Al Qaeda said that Congress’s conduct during the so-called “fiscal-cliff” showdown convinced the terrorists that they had been outdone. “We’ve been working overtime trying to come up with ways to terrorize the American people and wreck their economy,” said the statement from Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. “But even we couldn’t come up with something like this.” Mr. al-Zawhiri said that the idea of holding the entire nation hostage with a clock ticking down to the end of the year “is completely insane and worthy of a Bond villain.” “As terrorists, every now and then you have to step back and admire when someone else has beaten you at your own game,” he said. “This is one of those times.” The Al Qaeda leader was fulsome in his praise for congressional leaders, saying, “We have made many scary videos in our time but none of them were as terrifying as Mitch McConnell.” As for the future of Al Qaeda, the statement said that it would no longer be a terror network but would become “more of a social network,” offering reviews of new music, movies and video games. In its first movie review, Al Qaeda gave the film “Zero Dark Thirty” two thumbs down. Get the Borowitz Report delivered to your inbox. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/bo...l#ixzz2GO3RQpvO _________________________ Dismiss whatever insults your own soul. Walt Whitman
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#1379813 - 12/29/12 02:25 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: sands]
cwjga cwjga Senior Member Registered: 11/06/08 Posts: 3763 Loc: NY	Looks like we will get tax increases, but no spending cuts. They will probably talk about them in the future. HA! Taxes will go up, Govt. revenue will go down, because the economy will tank, futher than it is already, and the beloved Pres. will continue to spend money he does not have. We are toast. _________________________ "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." Calvin Coolidge
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#1379818 - 12/29/12 03:32 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: cwjga]
Timbo Timbo Senior Member Registered: 07/18/12 Posts: 3095 Loc: CNY	Originally Posted By: cwjga Looks like we will get tax increases, but no spending cuts. They will probably talk about them in the future. HA! Taxes will go up, Govt. revenue will go down, because the economy will tank, futher than it is already, and the beloved Pres. will continue to spend money he does not have. We are toast. What's certain, is that Republicans WILL have to go along with tax increases. _________________________ Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
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#1379819 - 12/29/12 03:34 PM Re: Congratulations Boehner [Re: twocats]
Timbo Timbo Senior Member Registered: 07/18/12 Posts: 3095 Loc: CNY	Originally Posted By: twocats Originally Posted By: sands Originally Posted By: twocats So by agreeing to raise taxes on anyone, Boehner has antagonized his base. By refusing to raise taxes on enough upper-income Americans, Boehner has antagonized those in the middle. Most Americans consider $50,000 a middle-class income, and the speaker is seen as trying to protect those who make five times that amount. Why not let the Bush tax cuts expire? They were just tax cuts for the rich. Their expiring won't effect the taxes of lower and middle class tax payers, right? Stick to guns. Your comment here is wayyyy off. His comments on guns are wayyy off too. _________________________ Everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
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