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At some point in time Washington will stop kicking the can of "How To Fund Social Security and Medicare" down the curb and we'll have a serious debate on the issue.
Neither party is in the mood right now to raise taxes and neither are a lot of the American people.
yes the 2 point cut is only temporary, but as everyone know SS is broke as it is,,do you really think a 2 point cut is the smartest avenue of approach....at least with obama's 'make work' credit it was not killing th ss trust fund.....but even better would have been increasing the 01/03 cuts and making them permnament
Late in the evening on Dec. 16, the US House of Representatives passed President Obama's tax cuts for billionaires. It marked the first bipartisan achievement of the president, just 23 months after hailing himself as "the first post-partisan president."
The vote was a crushing defeat for the fringe progressive wing of the Democratic party, by a margin of 277-148.
At some point in time Washington will stop kicking the can of "How To Fund Social Security and Medicare" down the curb and we'll have a serious debate on the issue.
Neither party is in the mood right now to raise taxes and neither are a lot of the American people.
Raising it back up the year before the election won't be easy, and you will be in the process of beginning to starve the Social Security fund. The decrease was against a base payment rate that has existed for decades, so it wasn't a tax increase.
The Democrats have the majority in both the House and Senate, along with the Executive Office.
They had the power to keep this from the bill, but instead they are touting it as a major benefit for this coming year.
Again, why aren't the liberals up in arms about the Social Security risk associated with the 2% payroll tax cut?
Well, the dems cut $500 billion from Medicare, and are now wanting to defund SS by this 2% reduction, and yet, their sycophant democratic voters seem to be perfectly content.
At some point in time Washington will stop kicking the can of "How To Fund Social Security and Medicare" down the curb and we'll have a serious debate on the issue.
Neither party is in the mood right now to raise taxes and neither are a lot of the American people.
So when is raising taxes the best thing for the country, if raising them now is not? If raising federal income taxes causes economic booms, then why not raise taxes on everyone by 5% or more NOW? Lets get this boom started.
Now the 'rich' can take over the country and wipe out the middle class and take over corporate america and destroy the country and ruin people and......blah, blah, blah
The dramatic expansion of industrial agriculture (or factory farming) has made it increasingly difficult for small family farmers in the U.S to stay in business. Instead, the food industry has become dominated by a handful of giant corporations which benefit from government policies that favor large-scale production.
Family farmers are being forced out of business at an alarming rate. According to Farm Aid, every week 330 farmers leave their land.i As a result, there are now nearly five million fewer farms in the U.S. than there were in the 1930's.ii Of the two million remaining farms, only 565,000 are family operations.iii As established family farms are shut down, they are not being replaced by new farms and young farmers. Very few young people become farmers today, and half of all U.S. farmers are between the ages of 45 and 65, while only 6% of all farmers are under the age of 35.
wrong....they passed KEEPINg THE TAX RATES the SAME. for EVERYONE...every LEVEL
to say its a cut for million(billion)iars is a ....LIE
Well, actually, they "INCREASED" the "Death Tax," on the wealthy, otherwise known as the estate tax. That very horrible tax had finally gone away this year. Frankly, as I interpret the Constitution, this is a very illegal so-called tax that is really "confiscation" of property.
Bottom line...all tax levels remain the same for everyone for the next 2 years, EXCEPT the Death Tax on property left behind, including family farms, ranches, etc. Very bad! Very destructive.
Well, actually, they "INCREASED" the "Death Tax," on the wealthy, otherwise known as the estate tax. That very horrible tax had finally gone away this year. Frankly, as I interpret the Constitution, this is a very illegal so-called tax that is really "confiscation" of property.
Bottom line...all tax levels remain the same for everyone for the next 2 years, EXCEPT the Death Tax on property left behind, including family farms, ranches, etc. Very bad! Very destructive.
Every tax you and I pay, besides a sales tax at the point of exchange, is a confiscation of property. Who really owns it, if you have to pay someone off to keep it?
Let me try that in the private sector...
If I can't legally do it, my government should never have more power than I as an individual.
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