People think anyone making a buck more a year than they make are 'rich'.

We've had this tax structure since when? '03? Why does everyone want to start class warfare now?

My take on the Obama compromise is he's desperate to be re-elected and the economy will prevent that from happening. He's tried the Keynesian approach with little success, QE2 will more than likely fail just as QE1 did. He needs to pull out all the stops now and IF extending the tax cuts for the 'rich' will have any effect on job creation he'll be able to take the credit.

It will add to the debt if that's the measure you're using, but cutting payroll taxes (which is part of this compromise and the R's recommended doing during the run-up to the 'stimulus' bill) will put a further strain on SS too.

Point being, the focus at this instant is to do everything possible to get the economy moving at a faster clip. We can worry about tax cuts for the 'rich' again when they expire in another two years. Maybe then more members of congress will grow a pair and start working on debt reduction. A less complicated tax structure, like the one from Simpson-Bowles, will make this argument moot.

Rich people don't spend money that's why they are rich. Believe it or not it's true, really. It's the middle class who keep the country running & the poor - the people who live paycheck to paycheck & would spend a million dollars in a year if you gave it to them. Even if you don't believe that, try & grasp a basic sense of math, it's the sheer #s that make any other argument dumb. Also, tax cuts to the wealthy will NOT create a single job. Why would it?

I think McMahon must be the poster boy for class warfare.

Remember when they put that 'luxury tax' on those yachts? Remember when those rich fuggers decided to stop buying those yachts?

What happened then Todd? Didn't entire industries shut down? Weren't the people who worked in those industries harmed when they were no longer working and weren't the other businesses in those communities harmed when those workers no longer had the money to spend?

Sure. I don't have any qualms with that label. Class warfare has happened many times before in history and it will continue to happen as long as a select few take advantage of the less fortunate to enrich themselves.

The only difference between this class warfare now compared to the Peasant Revolt in England in medieval times is that the poor people today are brainwashed by Fox News and the teabaggers into thinking that they should be defending the ultra-rich for some fuked up reason.

I just have problems with a select few buying politicians so they can continue to export jobs to China and keep most of us suppressed into having a job where we make no money and have no benefits, meanwhile they take bailout money from the gov't at our childrens' expense. If it makes me a poster boy to want everyone to have decent health care and decent wages and have their voices actually heard by politicians, so be it.

I just watched Bowles & Simpson try to tell the media a few days ago that their tax plan would help working class America.

They couldn't even keep a straight face. It was like watching an SNL parody where they keep cracking up.

If you're on the lowest rung, the guy working at Burger King or some jackoff X-Ray tech trying to support 3 estranged children, it will save you $400, or 8 tanks of gas.

If you are in the wealthiest 1%, however, you will save $500,000...

...Or enough to buy a McMansion and still have enough left over to outsource your X-Ray image processing to India, lay off your jack-off X-ray techs, saving you another $75,000 a year, enough to hire him back as your personal toilet valet, paying him $7 an hour to wipe your ass and shake off your cock after you're done pissing on him.

Or you could afford another new truck or another new Beemer or you could take a vacation in a tropical paradise and come on here and piss and moan about rich people.

Blow it out your ass you hypocritical cumguzzler.

Or you could afford another new truck or another new Beemer or you could take a vacation in a tropical paradise and come on here and piss and moan about rich people.

Blow it out your ass you hypocritical cumguzzler.

Ah... the emotional appeal!



There's your "SOCIAL JUSTICE" folks. Yet it's not enough for some of you socialists. The majority of the "rich" weren't behind the bank failures but you want to punish them anyway?