Anyone else kinda pissed about this tax increase?

Joniemack · Dec 22, 2011

Willravel said: ↑

I'm fine paying my fair share via taxes, I'd just rather corporations and the super-wealthy weren't mostly in charge of what we spend it on. My tax dollars should earn me a vote that actually matters as far as what the people I elect actually do after being elected. I shouldn't have to hire a lobbying firm to affect change in Washington. Or Sacramento, for that matter.

More to the root of this, I take issue with politicians and economists still calling for austerity measures, and it's not because they're actually concerned about debt, in fact they know the debate isn't serious. It's a fake. Every few years austerity is trotted out as the solution to all of our problems by so-called fiscal conservatives and is then used to bludgeon the Democrats like a political baseball bat. It's been discussed on TFP at length, that Republicans only care about deficits when there's a Democratic president, and here, again, we see that conclusion verified by evidence. We have to cut vital programs and taxes for the 'job creators' (that never create jobs) because the Democrats ruined the economy when Bush was in office and the Republicans had control of the House and Senate by starting those wars and cutting those taxes they didn't want to do. And it's all President Obama's fault!
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^^Nailed it!

tecoyah · Dec 23, 2011

As I had hoped...the house has come to their collective senses and caved into the pressure placed on them by the people they supposedly represent. 'Bout freakin' time.

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