Schadenfreude. Taxed enough already seems to only apply to those making over 250k a year. Which isn’t shocking if you understand what the GOP really stand for (instead of what they claim to stand for), but lol to all those people in their tea party uniforms fighting to keep tax breaks for the wealthy while their own taxes go up. Suckers. In between the regressive tax hikes and the cuts to services to the working/middle class and poor, most tea partiers will lose thousands of dollars. Sadly so will I. My brother is going to lose a few grand in the new student loan changes for grad students. Sucky system, but what can you do but laugh.
http://news.yahoo.com/gop-may-ok-tax-increase-obama-hopes-block-124016578.html
Well, when Obama supports it, all bets are off. Then it’s the Worst Thing Evar!!
It’s sick. There are really no other words.
If the Teabaggers and the GOP raise taxes on their constituents, it will be Obama’s fault.
If the Teabaggers and the GOP get a bellyache from too much icecream, it will be Obama’s fault.
Let me get this straight. The tax cut which mainly benefited the wealthiest Americans and was supposed to expire by now: “it must be protected at all costs!” But a tax cut which benefits a huge number of ordinary working Americans: “meh. Let it expire.” GOP: friends of ordinary Americans. Really.
Sick, sure, but is it really surprising?
I truly don’t understand how people (and by people I mean the middle class and below, as opposed to the wealthy, who directly benefit from the GOP’s policies) can sympathize with the GOP.
To be more specific, I have friends who are on SS disability, yet call SS a Ponzi scheme, essentially echoing the GOP’s talking points. That sort of cognitive dissonance is beyond my understanding. Yet these same people will blindly follow the GOP’s stance on the OP’s tax position.
If I thought it would work, I’d tell Obama to propose radical tax cuts in the hopes that republicans will automatically oppose it and make an effective plan using tax increases before they realize what’s happening.
Bill Maher said it well:
It is comical, or at least it would be if it weren’t serious. Now their taxes will go up, and they still won’t know what is going on.
I’m all for paying taxes. I get, have gotten and hopefully will continue to get in the future great stuff in exchange for paying them. Scientific research, a good education, libraries, retirement aid, quality control, security. roads, etc. So I don’t mind paying taxes. But a movement based on taxes that doesn’t understand taxes, and now due to their voting habits their taxes and lviing expenses will go up rather than down, that is just funny.
Wait a minute…
A bunch of lefties on this board bitching about a plan to raise taxes, which had been anathema to Republicans, by Republicans?
I see. A reverse psychology ploy.
Careful, though. If you hate it enough the Republican house may pass it, and that’s when the good theater will start.
Don’t think you’re reading it carefully enough. It’s about hypocrisy, nobody here is whining about more taxes…
I’m all for raising taxes to keep the system solvent. But the Tea Party and GOP railed against taxes when they were on corporations and the wealthy. But now that they are on everyone else, they are unnecessary, causing deficits, not helpful, etc. It is comical.
It is almost as funny as all us leftists electing Obama to be our great progressive hope and having him extend the bush tax cuts and abolish the public option instead.
Moved to Great Debates from MPSIMS.
It’s equally funny, to me.
Stupid democrats.
They said vote for Hillary. Lesson learned.
Obama did neither of these things.
What universe do you live in?
It is true that he didn’t really abolish the public option. The Senate did that.
My understanding was he negotiated it with the insurance companies. The administration supposedly said in a nutshell ‘if you don’t oppose this health insurance reform, we will mandate people buy private insurance and not offer competition from a public plan’. So I can see his logic, but my understanding was Obama played a role in negotiating that away.
FWIW the insurance companies still opposed the bill at least somewhat and funded many tea party protests.
Playing a role in negotiations is not equivalent to “abolish[ing] the public option.” You can’t abolish something that never existed.
And only Congress has the authority to extend the Bush era tax cuts or not. Obama has consistently advocating letting them expire on the people who benefited from them the most; i.e. really fucking rich people.