[neverdem]

Wickedly honest! Ironic to the max, I’m at a loss for words.

[Tzimisce]

You wanted high taxes and big government America.

Now pay for it.

[Texas Fossil]

“The Super Committee”?

It was concocted to keep the 2010 Tea Party insurgent freshman Congressmen from having any input.

Dems & RINO Pubbies did this.

Now who will take the blame for the scam?

Both wear it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

If I were John Boehner, I’d say: “Clearly there’s no mandate for small government in the election results. So, if you milquetoast pantywaist sad-sack excuses for the sorriest bunch of so-called Americans who ever lived want to vote for Swede-sized statism, it’s time to pony up.”

Okay, he might want to focus-group it first.

Nah...just say it straight out. It would probably win more GOP converts than all the phony "bipartisanship" ever attempted. :)

[Travis McGee]

The wreck is going to be epic.

[oldbrowser]

Bankruptcy, debt ceiling, F&F, Benghazi, etc. are all just bumps in the road. The real issue is climate change. /sarc

[Tax-chick]

A bipartisan agreement in which Republicans agree to cave and Democrats agree not to laugh at them too much?

I've got my money on this outcome. If I'm right, I'll buy myself a drink. And if I'm wrong, I'll buy myself a drink.

[whitedog57]

To infinity and beyond!

http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/obamas-continued-demand-for-1-6-trillion-tax-on-the-wealthy-and-his-cross-of-debt/

[Gritty]

If there is a 50% increase in taxes for those of us actually paying taxes (for example, raising the 25% rate to 37.5%), to be "fair" there also ought to be a 37.5% decrease in government benefits for those who are paying no taxes.

If welfare slugs can't live on that than we can't live on what WE make, either!

Alternatively, maybe they can get up in the morning and go find a job and pay confiscatory taxes along with the rest of us - if they can even find one in this wretched BarackaClaus economy.

[sauropod]

mark

[FerociousRabbit]

“No sane person could willingly countenance brutally saving a month’s worth of debt over the course of a decade.”

I have never seen humor so funny yet so sadly true at the same time. Steyn has moved to a higher plane of political commentary and he was already the best out there to begin with.

[TomasUSMC]

The American People should say WE WILL ALL ASK FOR TAX EXTENSIONS AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR OUR MONEY UNTIL OUR GOVERNMENT PASSES A BUDGET.

NO BUDGET NO TAXES

[Cheerio]

This entire "Fiscal Cliff" jabber reminds me of one thing only - GOING GALT. If I were still working in the business world instead of being one of the 47%, I would simply close up shop and retire, or see about getting on the government payroll since they seem to never run out of Other People's Money and when they do they just borrow more or print more. This is the life.

There is very little keeping corporations inside the USA other than those working on Government classified projects. MOVE OFFSHORE. Stick it to the Government and their leeches.

Yes, I know some of the 47% earned and paid for their Socialism Security.

[4Liberty]

[Revolting cat!]

“Americans love Big Government as much as Europeans. The only difference is that Americans refuse to admit it.”

Don't forget that!

[SueRae]

Oh to have one tenth of his wit and sarcasm while pointing out the truth. Spot on, Mark.

[gusty]

This column is the most succinct, honest, truthful statement of fact about the totality of the problem facing us ever penned. Steyn lays his finger directly on the crisis. Like the old saying, “We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us.” I will add one more factor that has bitten us in the ass. All those times conservatives whittled down the tax rolls in order to advance tax cuts has in the end led to our destruction. Reagan and the GOP were naive in the 80’s thinking those people would be grateful. Instead they are the 47% who will drag the rest of us into the abyss.

[OneWingedShark]

From the Article: A couple of years back, Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute calculated that, if Washington were to increase every single tax by 30 percent, it would be enough to balance the books — in 25 years. If you were to raise taxes by 50 percent, it would be enough to fund our entitlement liabilities — just our current ones, not our future liabilities, which would require further increases. This is the scale of course correction needed.

And that is how we need to frame talks/arguments for tax-increase/spending-cut arguments.

[tet68]

You got to give it to Steyn only he could come up with...

the expiry of the deferment of the implementation of the adjustment of the correction of the extension of the reduction to the proposed increase of the Alternative Minimum Growth Sustainability Reduction Rate. They don’t call it a yawning chasm for nothing.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Brutal read, but great post of the ugly truth.