LockeColeMA wrote:
gbaji wrote:
LockeColeMA wrote:
Kachi wrote:
Good, they shouldn't pass it. WTF is Obama thinking?
"Better to help 98% of the population and increase our deficit yet again than ***** them and be correct when we blame it on partisanship."
Not saying I agree, but it's pretty obvious that that's his line of thinking.
Nah. It's more like "better to help 100% of the population than to hurt 100% of the population out of some compulsive ideological desire to hurt a specific 2%".
You really think that's how
Obama thought?
![Smiley: dubious](//zam.zamimg.com/i/smilies/dubious.gif)
Wow, maybe you really are crazy. While he might not support the policies you would, it's amazing you think he's out specifically to hurt people.
You're kidding, right?
This entire argument exists because the Democrats want to raise taxes on the wealthiest 2%. Just them. Not everyone, not them and some other people, but just them. Now, maybe you call it something else, but when I see someone specifically single out one portion of the population and take extra money from them, I tend to call it "hurting a specific 2%". What the hell else do you call that?
The point I was making is that the Democrats want so much to raise taxes on that 2% of the population that they are willing to hold the taxes for the other 98% hostage to that goal. See, if nothing is done taxes go up for all 100% of taxpayers. If we simply extend the existing bill, it stays the same for all 100% of the taxpayers. But the Dems want to raise taxes on the top 2%, so they're threatening to not extend the tax cuts for everyone unless some deal can be cut to raise it just on that 2%.
My statement above is that the reason Obama (and some Dems in congress) are shifting away from that goal is that they realize that they are running out of time. They can't get a bill passed to raise taxes on the 2% they want to raise taxes on, so their choices really are the following:
1. Let the tax cuts expire, and hope to get the tax plan they want next year. This means that taxes will go up for 100% of the people until some new as yet undefined legislation is passed.
2. Extend the tax cuts for everyone.
It's really a choice between ******** everyone over in order to ***** over the 2% you want, or accepting something which doesn't ***** anyone over (including that 2% you want to ***** over). The Dems (some of them) are starting to come around to the smarter of those two options.
Were you honestly confused about this?
Edited, Dec 14th 2010 7:36pm by gbaji