Posted on 09/19/2011 4:38:18 PM PDT by yoe
Edited on 09/19/2011 4:56:57 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
It's not just millionaires who'd pay more under President Obama's latest plan to combat the deficit.
Air travelers, federal workers, military retirees, wealthier Medicare beneficiaries and people taking out new mortgages are among those who would pay more than $130 billion in government revenues raised through new or increased fees.
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Relax man, this is NOT going to pass the House or Senate!
Obama doesn't give a rat's rear end about ombatting the deficit - but this DOES give him an excuse to raise taxes, which has always been his goal.
How about privatizing airport security, ditch the TSA altogether.
“Why (would) the administration ... propose a Social Security payroll tax holiday in its jobs bill, but simultaneously suggest a tax increase for middle-class federal workers?” asked Joseph Beaudoin, president of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. :
Because he’s a lying SOS. Wow military retirees get the millionaire treatment. And Airline passengers, well now you pay to get some stranger to feel you.
This administration is WAY OUT OF CONTROL.
They remind me of the 6th grader that takes daddy’s car and drives and high speeds swerving aimlessly on the road.
This 6th grader is the voice of some controlling group of commies probably
all over the world and he was hatched to do their bidding to bring the world down to a one world government. Tear it all down. Easier to start over that way.
Well their little commie coup attempt is set to fail. What rock will they crawl under after the smoke clears.
Hopefully it will never happen.
I believe it. Nearly any congressman that voted for doing this to military retirees wouldn’t have to face defeat in the next election—they’d be recalled.
Military retirees would pay a $200 fee upon turning 65 to have the government pay their out-of-pocket Medicare expenses.
I could live with that, because it's a moot point. Will there be a government to pay my military retirement and medicare when I turn 65?
Sorry but you have not heard Buffets companies are under investigation for failure to pay over 1B as in billion dollars in back taxes...Notice he never mentions that fact....Another limousine liberal
Sorry but you have not heard Buffets companies are under investigation for failure to pay over 1B as in billion dollars in back taxes...Notice he never mentions that fact....Another limousine liberal
And then go a step further. Change any employee of BATFE with murder or accessory before or after. Charge any employee of the EPA with crimes against humanity. Charge any employee of Education with child abuse. Charge any employee...
Which is a crime in most states.
Seems to me he should be happy with sexually molesting the air line passengers and not feel the need to shake them down, too.
And penalizing the military retirees (whites) is a snazzy community organizer idea.
He’s also targeting medicare again. Kill them ole white people.
sad thing is, $130 billion is one month’s overspendindg
we spend about $130 billion more every month, than revenues come in
so, what and who comes next?
Your forgetting that Buffett and Bill Gates along with a lot of other billionaires put their wealth in tax free trust funds. They still get to vote the stock , feel rich and it forever pays no taxes. If they want the rich to pay their fair share eliminate tax free trust retro active to Jan 1. To make matters worse Buffett has dozens of lawyers fighting the irs over a 1 billion tax bill the irs says he owes. He should be charged with lying to congress. He spends millions not to pay taxes and complains he dosent pay enough.
“Relax man, this is NOT going to pass the House or Senate!”
I agree, however I think it is very important that the democrats who vote against the bill are highlighted by all conservatives and conservative outlets. Obama and his media will try to blame the bill’s failure on Republicans. It will be important to continue to identify members of his own party who couldn’t stomach this debacle.
EODGUY
I think the Republicans need to jump all over this - everybody knows Social Security is going broke and the Obama answer is to reduce collection of Social Security taxes! We need to hit this hard and demonstrate to our seasoned citizens that Obama is going to take away their Social Security by bankrupting the system even more quickly. Remember the RATS scared senior citizens when Bush simply wanted to put part of the payroll tax in a private account to get more interest. Obama is doing this to reduce one of taxes "his people" actually pay.
Meantime, I believe I heard a figure that the top 1% of earners pay something like 30% of all income taxes collected. What's not fair about that? I think that what's not fair is that those earners are paying an unconscionable amount of the total income taxes collected. So , Mr. President, take your "fair share" and shove it!
So, on the one hand, so much regulation they cannot drill, and on the other, tax them for not drilling?? November, 2012 cannot come soon enough!!
***Air travelers, federal workers, military retirees, wealthier Medicare beneficiaries and people taking out new mortgages are among those who would pay more...***
Military retirees? They don’t get enough compensation, including respect, as it is. They stand in harms way on a daily basis, many times come home draped in a flag or maimed, so LEAVE THEM ALONE, O’SLAMMY!
The housing industry is in shambles, and they want to make it more expensive for the first time buyer? Nobody is that stupid.
I think the real nail in Zero’s coffin is when he announces NO COLA increase for a third year in a row for SS recipients. Inflation for August was 3.77. It has been inching up evey month this year.
I would almost be willing to bet on this one.
If he were serious he would be studying Paul Ryan’s plan. I find it reasonable and fair to everyone.
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