Posted on 01/18/2015 11:31:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I wonder if the barely wealthy have the time from working to figure out they are being fleeced by the American people.
Don't you imagine they are too uninformed to know that such is even being considered?
Why does he propose anything? He has his pen and his phone...he should simply act when congress fails to.
Two thirds of the American people are socialist: they see government as their “protector”.
There is no such thing as a “trust fund loophole”.
I googled all of the articles regarding this, thinking that they might be talking about ending the stepped up cost basis on appreciated stock.
Nothing.
Much like everything else, this is just agenda advancing by press release.
The only interesting thing about this year’s State of the Union address will be to see which Republicans are foolish enough to applaud anything Obama says.
The Democrats lost in a landslide in November because they had supported Obama’s proposals, so the last thing any Congress member — Republican or Democrat — should want is to be seen cheering him on on national television.
On the other hand, nothing the president says will be interesting, since he’s a lame duck whose party controls neither house of Congress, and the Democrats’ two Congressional leaders — Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi — are too incapacitated by physical problems — Harry might lose an eye and Nancy has already lost much of her mind — to get anything done.
Indeed. But who in Congress can we trust to enact that?
hell pass one law, and enforce a completely different law that he makes up at one of his legislative press conferences from whence he promulgates new law.
Perhaps the people of the middle class should learn a trade/skill and wait until they go to college, to find out if they even NEED college to do what they want to do. After all, too many people are going to college and behaving like they’re heirs and heiresses. By that I mean they feel entitled to have a job waiting for them instead of learning something useful, practical, and working through their twenties and avoiding debt. If they learned something like welding or perhaps how to make cars, they would be able to go anywhere with that, see the world, enjoy the debt free existence and end up going to college/university in their early thirties and meeting a mate there.
In the past, being middle class meant learning a trade/skill and they would be able to end up making a real living. Being idle before, after school and a little while before marriage was reserved for the idle rich.
I’m kind of relieved it has been. Too many asinine trustafarians who have all the time in the world to mess around, mess with other people’s lives, then go back to their cushy life and enjoy their lifestyle while our lives go down in flames.
The democrat party- the party of chaos, division, hatred, and bitterness. The party of darkness and despair.
Upward mobility has only decreased under his Democrat Economic Policies.
Since they won’t we should go Galt and take our share of the freebies. Make the system collapse.
Taxes for the middle class are not the issue.
The issue is cronyism. A man made rich by a solyndra deal doesn’t care what his taxes are. The issue for him is what he keeps after the deal is done.
The federal and state governments have made ownership of stocks very expensive. What the GOP needs to do is show that and get the costs reversed. We need more capitalists.
The counter-argument that I’d make is Democrat policies have made labor very expensive. It’s a double squeeze: created a regulatory and tax environment that makes labor expensive e.g. the Davis Bacon Act, FICA, minimum wage laws, etc. and then allow low cost labor to pour across the border.
Will the GOP get it and explain it?
“Being idle before, after school and a little while before marriage was reserved for the idle rich.”
With children off the table for many young people, being idle is a way of life now. Many never aspire to own a home, and certainly wouldn’t be inconvenienced by the time, money, and effort to learn a marketable skill (though in fairness to them, if they did so the job would probably be overseas by the time they could start working). Many years ago a female friend described how many young men her friends weren’t working - and these weren’t ghetto folk.
Much of our working class (real workers, not the way that phrase is used by politicians and sociologists to describe non-working poor) is screwed, and they know it.
You are exactly right.
..."to help middle class families get ahead and grow the economy.”
Get ahead? Ahead of what? The poor? Say it ain't so, comrade.
This is more money ultimately for government indoctrination of children via payola to teachers (his former line of "work") and other unions.
We should be doing all we can to get back to one parent working in a two parent home. Instead the government is doing all it can to take children from their parents as soon as they possibly can in order to teach them to be dependant sheeple in thrall to the state and to sodomy.
This is all they EVER do.
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