Obama Lays-Out $1.5T in New Taxes

[kx250rider]

Pretty sure this isn't the fault of just one man...



Just sayin'

True.... It's the whole system, and Pelosi her gang, and the voters who don't want to lose their free medical and welfare and food stamps. I doubt if we had any other president in office; Democrat, Republican, or Independent, that there would be any better policy coming out, as long as the rest of the bureaucracy is in place as it stands.

Obama draws battle line over $1.5T in tax hikes - CBS News

Just the threat of that should freeze the economy for the next one or two years.

Maybe conservatives should give him free reign to increase taxes more like $3T and see how that works out.

Good times.

That would sure tell the truth! I don't know how much more suffering the hard workers are willing to put up with to prove a point, but if the Left really thinks in their wildest dreams, that bankrupting "the rich" and "the evil corporations and oil companies", is going to do anything but totally destroy every job in the USA, maybe we need to let it happen, like we needed to let Pearl Harbor happen before the American public was willing to admit that we were in danger from World War II.

Charles

 

[Mr. dB]

...but if the Left really thinks in their wildest dreams, that bankrupting "the rich" and "the evil corporations and oil companies", is going to do anything but totally destroy every job in the USA, maybe we need to let it happen, like we needed to let Pearl Harbor happen before the American public was willing to admit that we were in danger from World War II.

Who said anything about bankrupting them? How many of "the rich" went bankrupt the last time the taxes were at the proposed rate?

 

[digimon7068]

let unemployment go back to 26 weeks and make all the lazy fucks go back to work! what? you say you're going to make less money than you did before? boo-fucking-hoo! join the gawddamn club! what? you say you might have to move? i'll pay for your moving van, now stfu and gtf back to work you fuckin' fuck!

 

[mrplunkey]

let unemployment go back to 26 weeks and make all the lazy fucks go back to work! what? you say you're going to make less money than you did before? boo-fucking-hoo! join the gawddamn club! what? you say you might have to move? i'll pay for your moving van, now stfu and gtf back to work you fuckin' fuck!

+1,000,000

You're touching on a very important point. During downturns, people do have to take jobs that pay less than their previous one. The problem is, 99 weeks of unemployment encourages people to hold out. So instead of the market for labor re-equilibrating, unemployment remains high and people don't get a fresh start to work their way up the ladder.

 

[SpyWizard]

I'm starting a non profit

taxthe51%.org

have the paperwork in..

 

[redsamurai]

+1,000,000

You're touching on a very important point. During downturns, people do have to take jobs that pay less than their previous one. The problem is, 99 weeks of unemployment encourages people to hold out. So instead of the market for labor re-equilibrating, unemployment remains high and people don't get a fresh start to work their way up the ladder.

In theory this may be correct but from what you see and hear everyday is that people just want jobs. True, they look at jobs that are related to their skillset...but they're taking what they get now even if it pays less.

 

[ceo]

How fitting is it that shortly after America gets its first black President...





our fucking credit gets downgraded!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Whiskey]

^^^Oh snap!!

And I agree with cutting back on the unemployment. Even if it went back to 26 weeks, if say, after a month or two of still not finding work, okay maybe they can get another 12-26 weeks...

Whiskey

 

[digimon7068]

In theory this may be correct but from what you see and hear everyday is that people just want jobs. True, they look at jobs that are related to their skillset...but they're taking what they get now even if it pays less.

not where i live...at least a dozen times in the last year i've heard this same story from my clients and other business contacts..."i interviewed and hired 3 people yesterday...they were to start work on monday...2 of them called me the next day and said that they sat down and figured out that they have 6 weeks of unemployment left, so they aren't going to come to work on monday." all of my clients, particularly the manufacturers, are looking to hire...many are significantly understaffed, with many current employees getting lots of overtime...it's VERY disappointing to see so many people that weren't raised to have some pride.

when i was a kid, my dad was a crane operator and there were many times when there just wasn't work in our area and he had to work out of town for extended periods of time...he missed numerous sporting events that my brothers and i were in and numerous other family fucntions...and, if we would have had to move (which was contemplated over the years) we would have...period...that's just what you did...and that's the way i was raised/trained...anyone that wasn't? they are inferior to me...plain and simple...and, push-come-to-shove, i would eat their lunch because my mindset makes me a superior worker/employee...it's a new world order...time to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get out there and figure out the new rules...or be left behind...to wallow in mediocrity...waiting for some son-of-a-bitch like me to come along and take your lunch money.

 

[robertfhub]

Amen to that. The strong will survive. I don't mind helping the less fortunate. As a matter of fact I down right feel good about it. But how many people are less fortunate so they can stay on the govt tit forever.
I worked ford years near nyc public housing. I defenitly would not call that poverty...


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