Posted on 01/12/2013 6:55:46 AM PST by mdittmar
(Reuters) - Americans are beginning to feel the pinch from Washington's decision to embrace austerity measures aimed at bringing down the nation's budget deficit.
Paychecks across the country have shrunk over the last week due to higher federal tax rates, and workers are already cutting back on spending, which will drag on the economy this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
What "austerity measures"?
Um, the rates returned to the same play they have been for 20+ years. That’s not austerity.
American austerity, the unfortunate need to only max out your credit card for the 50” flat screen and not the 60”.
What a joke...... imagine having to get up, wander to the office and then pound out this drivel.
Bwahahahahaha! So rates are back to where they were two stinking years ago! Austerity? The media really are the puppet masters working hand in hand with the marxist in chief.
How bout them b*st*rds taking a pay cut? U watch ...later this year they will vote themselves a raise while we all suck egg. We are no longer a republic, I am afraid.
SS has been running in the red since 2010 and Medicare since 2008.
That was the very first question that popped into my mind. WHAT austerity measures??? They come like thieves in the night and rob us blind so they don’t have to be austere. WE do.
obama already gave them a payraise via an executive order. Wasn’t that just swell of him?
Increases in taxes drag GDP. Decreases in government spending drag GDP. This is not politics. It is math.
GDP = Personal Consumption (decreases if taxes increased) + Investment + Government Spending + (Exports - Imports)
There is one item NO ONE HAS INCLUDED in their analysis.
The “millionaire’s tax” of 2 weeks ago will be $60 Billion in 2013.
The Payroll tax rise will be about 140 Billion in 2013.
The Sequester is slated to be $110 Billion in 2013.
Those sum to 310 B which divided by 15.3T GDP is 2.1% drag on GDP.
The one thing no one has included is that the Aug 2011 debt ceiling deal was 2.2 Trillion ceiling increase for 2.2 Trillion in spending cuts, with 1 Trillion of it immediate and 1.2 Trillion in the Sequester. No One Has Included That First 1 Trillion In Their Calculations. That number was backloaded. Obama would not allow it in FY 2012 for the election. It’s 1 T over 10 yrs with the first year 2 Billion.
So there’s an extra approximately $100 Billion reduced in 2013 vs 2012. This is additional GDP drag of 0.1 / 15.3T = 0.6% of GDP.
This summation of 2.7% is each year of the next 9 years.
This is the payroll tax simply reverting to its normal take of a worker’s pay after it was suspended as part of the Bush tax cuts. Thank FDR and the Democrats.
Obviously, Reuters knows nothing about the U.S. tax system.
You wanted high taxes and runaway spending America.
Enjoy it. :)
The only way to balance, protest or combat this is to stop spending. Don't buy anything above board unless absolutely needed..Screw that new car, or whatever asinine toy or gadget which isn't needed anyway.
This will piss off even more people..More people need to be kicked in the teeth...This is exactly what is needed. In fact, I hope the criminals running government at all levels continue these punishing policies....Let them concoct more fines, regulations, fees, taxes...Lets hope they continue pushing the general population right up against the wall, face first.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” HL Menken
WHAT AUSTERITY? and why is it the government’s job to spend?
I’ve done my duty...
Just yesterday we made the decision to put off indefinitely a $3000 purchase...It was something desired, but certainly not needed or required.
Once the decision was made, I felt fantastic!
I am now looking for more ways to eliminate spending....
Wow...what a propaganda hit piece! Talk about uneducated fools for the regime!
It isn’t the bite of austerity - it is the bite of Obama.
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