Republican Teagagger Party Raising Taxes

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Republican Teagagger Party Raising Taxes

Post by Schneibster » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:50 am

The Republican Teagagger Party wants to raise taxes on middle- and lower-class taxpayers.

You heard me right. In the middle of the worst employment climate in three generations the Republican Teagagger Party wants to raise most peoples' taxes. At the exact time when raising taxes will do the most damage to the economy, the Republican Teagagger Party wants to raise taxes.

There is only one reason for this. They want to lynch the scary black man in the White House. Nobody is stupid enough to want to raise taxes in the middle of an economic crisis unless they want to fuck things up.

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The facts: The Social Security payroll tax comes to 12.4 percent of an employee’s salary—employers and employees each pay 6.2 percent. The money goes into the Social Security Trust Fund and finances benefits. At the end of last year, the Obama administration, in exchange for temporarily extending the Bush tax rates on all income levels, got Congress to agree to a one-year 2 percent payroll-tax holiday for employees, down to 4.2 percent. For a $50,000 earner, that meant paying $1,000 a year less in payroll taxes. It was agreed in that law that the holiday would cost the Social Security Trust Fund nothing—the depleted revenue would be replaced out of the general treasury. So the holiday adds to the general deficit but does not affect the trust fund.

The cut proved popular, or is presumed to be popular, so now, as many people predicted last year, Congress wants to extend it. Republicans of course say (as they say of everything) that it hasn’t done any good. But economists attest to its stimulative value. Two economists at the Economic Policy Institute say ending the holiday would reduce GDP by $128 billion and cost 972,000 jobs in 2012. The EPI is a liberal outfit, but Mark Zandi of Moody’s, who advised John McCain in 2008, agrees that raising the payroll tax back to where it was could cause another recession.
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Post by Schneibster » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:56 am

How a party can so nakedly represent only the top 1 percent while at the same time trying to stop anything that will help the economy, and survive while doing it, is beyond me.
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Post by Svartalf » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:41 am

999 all over again?
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Post by Ian » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:45 am

They must be assuming most people have also drifted so far to the right that they no longer believe in Keynesian economics, either. I think they're in for a rude awakening.

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Re: Republican Teagagger Party Raising Taxes

Post by Schneibster » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:48 am

Kasich won't read the newspapers any more.

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Re: Republican Teagagger Party Raising Taxes

Post by Svartalf » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:49 am

Are the people who'd benefit from it even educated enough to know about Keynesian economics?
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Re: Republican Teagagger Party Raising Taxes

Post by Schneibster » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:53 am

Folks are getting real interested real fast. The ones that don't have jobs right now are highly motivated and inhabiting an information-rich environment if they make the effort.
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Post by Warren Dew » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:03 am

Ian wrote:They must be assuming most people have also drifted so far to the right that they no longer believe in Keynesian economics, either. I think they're in for a rude awakening.
Good point. Most people still believe in God, which isn't much more credible than straight Keynesian economics.

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Re: Republican Teagagger Party Raising Taxes

Post by Ian » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:22 am

Warren Dew wrote:
Ian wrote:They must be assuming most people have also drifted so far to the right that they no longer believe in Keynesian economics, either. I think they're in for a rude awakening.
Good point. Most people still believe in God, which isn't much more credible than straight Keynesian economics.
Seems to have worked alright for the last seventy-five years.
People like the tea party can spout out whatever theories they like, but when the shit starts to hit the fan, where do most people still turn? To government to pull out the spare tire, because nobody else has one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80 ... resurgence

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Post by Tyrannical » Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:40 am

Ian wrote:
Warren Dew wrote:
Ian wrote:They must be assuming most people have also drifted so far to the right that they no longer believe in Keynesian economics, either. I think they're in for a rude awakening.
Good point. Most people still believe in God, which isn't much more credible than straight Keynesian economics.
Seems to have worked alright for the last seventy-five years.
People like the tea party can spout out whatever theories they like, but when the shit starts to hit the fan, where do most people still turn? To government to pull out the spare tire, because nobody else has one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80 ... resurgence
Keynes is sooooooo 2009 :prof:

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Post by MrJonno » Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:34 pm

Actually if you have a large deficit you do increase taxes which is something every country in the world is doing bar the US. What you don't do is aim most of them at the bottom in society through they might need to rise for everyone to some extent.

The first thing the new Tory government did here in the UK was raise taxes (and they are a right wing government), people were very pissed about who they targetted but no one really had a problem with the principle of the rises
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Post by Tyrannical » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:50 pm

More juicy news.....

Ron Paul wants to cut both spending and taxes, and end crony capitalism. Unlike your BFF Obama.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:58 pm

Tyrannical wrote:More juicy news.....

Ron Paul wants to cut both spending and taxes, and end crony capitalism. Unlike your BFF Obama.
And of course he will be able to do that, unlike any other president to date.
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Re: Republican Teagagger Party Raising Taxes

Post by Azathoth » Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:11 pm

You know teabagger is already an insult don't you? The best bit is they chose it all by their retarded selves
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