How will the Dems manage to muck THIS up?

Current polls say that > 70% of Americans are in favor of increasing taxes on high earners, and about 2/3 are against dissolving Medicare as we know it in favor of a voucher system. Despite these numbers, the GOP House recently passed the 'Ryan Plan', which destroys Medicare and cuts taxes for the wealthy even further. Ryan, who retained his seat with 68% of the vote last November, was booed at a town hall in his district.

Despite all this, we know the Dems will find a way to fumble this issue, and fumble it in a big way. This should be a no-brainer albatross that they should be able to pummel the GOP with, but we know somehow thay won't.

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Updated On: 4/21/11 at 10:06 AM

You seriously need a source to tell you that the majority of Americans who are barely scraping by are in favor of those people making so much money they don't know what to do with it having their taxes raised?

wapost 72%

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LOL

LOL.

I believe Goth just got....LuPwned.

Actually Goth, I was part of the poll and I make over $100,000. This is where you say, "I'm sorry. I was wrong."

As a single gay man I pay more than my fair share of taxes without the benefit of loopholes, sweetness.

Oh, and PS, how do you know I'm a liberal? I've never interacted with you before. You can say, "I apologize. I misspoke" now.

Updated On: 4/21/11 at 11:52 AM

And what is it with Republicans that they keep wanting to steal MY money?

At least the rich can afford it.

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Can we all just agree....that Goth is a Conservative moron?

Anyway, the Ryan video is hysterical. I think people are starting to realize that the GOP is out to screw people.

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So Goth...aren't you going to thank ANYONE for the source that you asked for?

Nah...I didn't think so...that would be totally out of character.

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Madbrian Ryan is ANYTHING but open and honest with his plan- he gets quite vague when it's time to talk about the Tax side of the equation:

"The broad outlines of his tax plan are to:

* Maintain the Bush-era tax cuts beyond their expiration in 2012 and cut the top individual tax rate down to 25 percent from 35 percent
* Consolidate the current six tax brackets into some, unspecified, fewer number of brackets
* Keep overall tax revenue levels the same
* Pay for the enormous tax cut for the top by eliminating or curtailing some, unspecified, tax expenditures

Without the missing details this is nothing but pure political boilerplate. Which brackets are going to be consolidated? What will the new rate structure be? Which tax expenditures will be eliminated? Which will be limited and how? Rep. Ryan doesn’t tell us. There is no plan here.

That’s probably on purpose since any detailed description of his ideas for tax “reform” would reveal a massive tax hike for the middle class. For Rep. Ryan to cut the top rate by nearly one-third and still keep tax revenue the same as it would have been under President’s Bush tax-cut regime means he’s going to have to raise taxes somewhere else. And though he pointedly refuses to tell us where those tax hikes will come from, we can make an educated guess.

For one thing, the basic math makes a middle-class tax hike unavoidable. The rate cut at the top, of course, benefits only those in the top brackets (the richest 2 percent of Americans), but to pay for this, Rep. Ryan says he will “broaden the tax base.” Broadening the tax base means removing some tax expenditures that currently benefit both the middle class and the rich—though remember that the rich are getting a huge rate cut. For another, Ryan’s previous budget plan, the “Roadmap for America’s Future,” includes a massive tax cut for the rich paid for by an equally massive tax increase for the middle class."
Lies, damned lies and Paul Ryan

By a "good percentag"e do you mean corporations and their CEOs like GE? Who exactly are you talking about? Why not just return to the levels of taxation during the Nixon era? Or even better, the Eisenhower era?

Why not, Roxy?

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Cher and Stephen King have both basically said publicly, "I make more money more easily than the average American. I should pay more taxes." I can't help but to agree. A CEO making millions isn't working harder than the mother of four I know who just had to take an 8PM-4AM shift at McDonald's to make ends meet.

The fact that there are large for-profit corporations that pay NO taxes is baffling. The US can't provide healthcare to their citizens. People are DYING because they can't get coverage. Others are fighting to put food on the table. What they can afford is so full of preservatives and growth hormones that 50% of the country is obese. The more you make, the more you should be taxed.

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