1 Clean up needed on aisle...!

2 dont quote me on this

3
This is a big huge scam set-up for 2012.

The Democrats are setting up the Republicans to raise taxes so the Democrats can use it against them in 2012 and win back the House.

4 Oh, I'm definitely in.

5 I'm feeling rather boxed in.

6
If the Republicans agree to a tax hike, it will crush GOP turnout in 2012.

Do. Not. Do. It.

7 DNC chair seeks to settle the debate about her being an idiot.  Succeeds

8 The house GOP needs to hang tough on this.
.
.
.
Yeah. I know.

9 Don't forget about us!

10 And me!

11 Let the Brinksmanship games begin!  First one to blink losses!

12 We're in, too!

13 Everyone gets a free red Prius

14

No deal huh?

I'm good with that. No debt increase beats any deal speaker Crying Boner can negotiate.

Iow, we have nothing to gain in a negotiation with the socialists.

15 Hey, don't forget us!

16 Do. Not. Do. It.

*nods*

17 7 DNC chair seeks to settle the debate about her being an idiot.  Succeeds

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 23, 2011 02:28 PM (jx2j9)

The stupid is strong in this one...

18

Whoever said the debt limit is a ceiling not a goal wins a cookie.

Anyone know if Obama is still knocking himself out with those once monthly economic briefings?

 

19 Are these the same Democrats that were calling to continue the Bush tax cuts earlier this year?

20 Tax increases never work but that is what the Dems always want. First jack spending through the roof and then say we need a tax hike to remove the deficit.

Then increase spending again.

But this time they are screwing themselves. If the Republicans hold firm they will get a spending cut equal to the amount of the deficit.

However, since we are already exceeding the debt limit and they are hiding it through chicanery and fake numbers I'm sure Obama adm will continue spending.

He is Supercommieman impervious to Impeachanite.

21

Go, Democrats, go!

22 Sagging Negotiations draw attention to: a) Former Congressman's sagging ball sac; b) Republicans' refusal to negotiate; or c) Democrats' awesomeness in all things.

23

Just raise the damned taxes! What could go wrong with just a little tax deal?

24 If the Republicans agree to a tax hike, it will crush GOP turnout in 2012.

Do. Not. Do. It.Posted by: Soothsayer at June 23, 2011 02:28 PM (sqkOB)

And a debt ceiling increase should produce a third party run in 12.Not saying it will; Americans are awfully passive right now.

25
The Democrats just voted last December to extend the Bush tax rates.
And then ran out immediately screaming that the Republicans are the party of tax cuts for the rich.

The Democrats voted to invade Iraq. And then they immediately condemned the war.

The Democrats voted for the Patriot Act. And then they immediately screamed about how the Republicans were infringing on civil liberties.

Do not fall for this trick, again, Republicans. If the Democrats want tax hikes, make THEM own it completely.

26 23

Just raise the damned taxes! What could go wrong with just a little tax deal?

Posted by: George H.W. Bush at June 23, 2011 02:31 PM (lH6z9)

Read my hips, more new taxes

27 When AmEx called me, I told them I wanted my debt limit increased.  They said they would call their lawyer.  I guess it's about to happen, huh?

28 Yeah?  What about us?

29 As long as we get our cut, we're cool.

30 Don't worry. Obama is releasing the oil from the SPR.

Everything (and by everything I mean Obama's reelection in 2012) will be fine.

31

Hey, boys!  You want a date?

 

32 I.AM.THE.JUGGERNAUT

33 Think of what a tax rate would do to our red-hot GDP.

34 You jerkwads need to shut up about this.

35 33 I.AM.THE.JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!

Posted by: the debt ceiling at June 23, 2011 02:35 PM (GTbGH)

36 Conservatives are all racists.

37 No way Max said all of that without a 'hiccup!'.

38 Magneto!

39 math is racist.

40
I think Cantor is finally realizing that THIS is our only leverage.

We have Obama over a barrel. Libya, his stupid health care, taxes, spending cuts, border security. We have the advantage over Obama. He must yield. We can do just almost as well with a stalemate as with concessions by Obama.

41 The Baucus Caucus is getting raucous.

42
The Harshening continues apace...

43
We have Obama over a barrel. Libya, his stupid health care, taxes, spending cuts, border security. We have the advantage over Obama. He must yield. We can do just almost as well with a stalemate as with concessions by Obama.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 23, 2011 02:38 PM (sqkOB)

Hmm, the peasants are revolting!

44 Don't forget me.  I need money for my car and my mortgage.

Obama is going to help me out.

45 This is the way the world ends
This is the way the word ends
This is the way the world ends

not with a bang but a whimper

46 Are these the same Democrats that were calling to continue the Bush tax cuts earlier this year? Yes, of course. Might we point out that, back then, many conservatives were busy patting themselves on the back for getting a lousy two year extension of those rates. We heard conservatives say that time limit was great because they would love to have another tax fight with Barry in 2012. Well, we didn't even have to wait until next year. And now we'll see if the GOP has the gonads to say "No" to new tax hikes at the risk of losing a debt ceiling deal.

47

Go, Democrats, go!

Posted by: The Media at June 23, 2011 02:31 PM (zgHLA)

Maybe that should be (mumble, mumble, suck, suck) as it is hard for the lamestream media to talk with Donk dicks in their mouths.

48

Anyone know if Obama is still knocking himself out with those once monthly economic briefings?

 

Posted by: alexthechick at June 23, 2011 02:30 PM

He goes to bed every night and wakes up every morning thinking of how to save us from this terrible economy. So he naps instead of attending briefings.

49 He also made an impassioned case that new tax revenues be part of any deal to raise the debt limit that involves significant cuts to entitlement programs.

I know how to come to a fair negotiation on just this point.

We need tax increases. But the right tax increases...

1) 90% tax on all entertainment industry salaries/royalties/etc over $250k.

2) 90% tax on all lawyer fees/earnings over $250k.

3) 100% tax on any government pension that pays more then SS.

50 How can we ever say no to a Democrat?  They're just so precious!  Daddy's little girl!

51

We don't want to raise the debt limit. Would we accpet a tax increase (modest) if the debt limit was not raised, and federal spending was cut (Medicare/medicaid/social security, etc)?

What about tax reform? A flat tax replacing the current progressive income tax? How about replacing the income tax ( repeal of the constitutional amendment allowing the income tax) and replacing it with a federal sales tax?

Yeah, that may sound impossible, but these are the sort of times that can lead to solutions that would have been impossible in the past.

Axelrod said never let a crisis go to waste.  Yeah, it sounds like a jerkish thing to say.  But there is something to be said for it.  (When it goes your way.  When it doesn't, well that kinda sucks.)

52 40 math is racist.

Posted by: can't let go of old memes at June 23, 2011 02:37 PM (GTbGH)

In the middle of the ocean there is a small island where everybody is part of this strange religion. One of the rules the people with this religion have to follow is the following : if you ever find out that you have blue eyes, you have to kill yourself that day at midnight. Because of this rule, people never talk about other people eyes and there are no mirrors in the island. So they can all live happily without knowing what the color of their own eyes is. They do see other people eyes, moreover, they all meet every day at noon where they have the chance to look at each other. One day, a foreigner comes to the island and at the noon meeting he tells everybody: "at  least one of you has blue eyes". The questions is what happens in the island thereafter. Assume, for example, that in the island there are 100 people with blue eyes and 100 people with brown eyes. Another important assumptions is that everybody in the island is a perfect logician. Solve for watermelon.

53 No way Max said all of that without a 'hiccup!'.

Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2011 02:37 PM (LLirK)

Is that the jerkwad on the way back from his four martini lunch that was assaulting the kid in that "ew ar ewe?" video?

If it is that clip should be played every single time his name is mentioned on TV

Why?

Because it would if he were a Republican.

54 You see, the economy is like this putting green, and the Republicans can't put the ball in the hole. Trust me, I won't quit until I get it into the hole.

55 This, "When Government Jumps the Shark" by Walter Mead, is great.

http://tinyurl.com/3ej7n3p



My only issue with it is, I think he gives progressives of today way too much credit for things progressives at the time opposed.  I do get hes trying to stroke their ego so they'll read the rest of his thoughts.  Petulent Children... watcha gonna do

56

Would we accpet a tax increase (modest) if the debt limit was not raised, and federal spending was cut (Medicare/medicaid/social security, etc)?

Demunists bait, then switch.

57 How about a Moron Meetup in DC tonight? Capitol Hill?

58 Listen to me: Propose tax increases.  A progressive tax on legal fees or the lawyers' portion of awards from legal settlements.

Raise taxes on the unpopular members of their coalition.

59 I am a little surprised that it's taking so long for Barack to send me my goodies, but I'm sure it's the Republicans fault for standing in his way.

60 Rumor has it (passive voice is fun!) on the menu for next beer summit. http://tinyurl.com/6xba7al

61

"We have Obama over a barrel. Libya, his stupid health care, taxes, spending cuts, border security. We have the advantage over Obama. He must yield. We can do just almost as well with a stalemate as with concessions by Obama."

You know, if the line is held on the debt ceiling and tax increases, the spending cuts automatically take care of themselves.

Just sayin'.

62
We have Obama over a barrel. Libya, his stupid health care, taxes, spending cuts, border security. We have the advantage over Obama. He must yield. We can do just almost as well with a stalemate as with concessions by Obama.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 23, 2011 02:38 PM

We MUST remember this. Obama does not have a small gang of briable RINOs or Stupaks up his sleeve this time. We MUST remember the facedown of healthcare and arm wrestle-that fucker to the table this time.

Another confrontation on C-SPAN? Let's challenge him.

63 We're about to put some D's in some A's!

64 "Trust me, I won't quit until I get it into the hole."

It will be the proudest moment of my life.

65 Single-payer legal system. It's the Amish way, it's the only way.

66

We Are Part of the Problem.

67 The best thing to happen to the country right now would be to have any such deals fall through. Of course, that's merely one more law for the admin to ignore, so it would not ultimately matter.

68 Well, I'll tell you what I want
What I really, really want

69
Now my son got a promotion, raise and got to put the call out to other teenagers who desperately want a job. Illegals are out of work and American teenagers are replacing them.
Posted by: Evil ATM out to take your job and your women

I'm not a teenager, but . . . could you send your son my resume?

70 What does Obama want? He already is the biggest thief of all time. At work last night, I saw a car in the garage with it's headlights left on. I walked over to get the license plate number to inform security. It was a Prius. I did not inform security. Oh, and I condemn myself.

71

I'd love for the Republicans to come back asking the Democrats which three government departments they'll agree to eliminate. After the Democrats decide from the short list (Education, Energy, HHS, HUD) then talks will begin again.

If not, let the debt ceiling pass and bring in the machete. I don't give a darn about most of the children but to keep tacking on trillion after trillion they'll have to repay one way or another is pretty cruel. If the crash is going to come, might as well stop the Democrats from paying off everyone. Where'd the last $5 Trillion dollars go again?

72 so long as there is commensurate additional revenue.

In 2009 Citizens across the United States took to the streets to protest deficit spending on a colossal scale. Their motto "Taxed Enough Already".

For the weeks and months that followed the legislature majority party, the executive administration, and the press mocked the group as too stupid to understand how things work in a complex society, and that in the Presidents words "They should thank me"

2011 we finally see the truth. Unsustainable spending necessitates tax increases.

Trust me, I'm so angry over that point right there, after mocking me for preemptively protesting tax increases when any fool could see them down the road, that the Dems would even dare propose a tax increase, I can see red.

73 I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.





brrraaiiinzzz

74
If income was freed from the thieving clutches of the feral government then the states would just move in and hike their own income taxes.

People are free to move around, you know.

75 Dems are now stooping to calling the GOP job killers because they're pushing bills to have a payroll tax holiday and the GOP says no because the rest of the bill sucks. But it's the evil R's that are preventing YOU from having a job.

These assholes will stop at NOTHING to remain in power.  NOTHING.

76 54
No way Max said all of that without a 'hiccup!'.
Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2011 02:37 PM (LLirK)

Is that the jerkwad on the way back from his four martini lunch that was assaulting the kid in that "ew ar ewe?" video?Posted by: Nighthawk at June 23, 2011 02:45 PM (OtQXp)

No, that was Bob Etheridge, who lost his House seat to Renee Ellmers.

Baucus was the souse who delivered the drunkenly-slurred "Where's the courage?" address on the Senate floor prior the Christmastime 2009 BOHICA passage of the health care "reform" legislation by the Senate. Claimed he wasn't inebriated, though, and took great offense at the implication.

77 77
If income was freed from the thieving clutches of the feral government then the states would just move in and hike their own income taxes.

People are free to move around, you know.

Posted by: arhooley at June 23, 2011 02:54 PM (/NHKt)

Now, in the future, not so much...

78 Howie Carr on wrko.com at 3:00 should be entertaining with Whitey Bulger being captured last night.

79 Wasn't it just a couple of days ago that the Republicans voted down 2 billion in additional cuts to the agricultural bill?  Holding the line on the debt ceiling means real spending cuts about 1000 times larger than that.  I wish it would happen, but not holding my breath.

80 Baucus: I think we should keep working, difficult as it is, and try to balance between Medicare cuts -- additional Medicare cuts -- so long as there is commensurate additional revenue. If, when you say "commensurate additional revenue" you mean "sending every Democrat in Congress on a mission to Mars in a bottle rocket covered with tar and feathers," I'm on board.

81 Mistakes were made.

Jobs were lost.

Money was blinded.

82 Why can't the Republicans make an ad that shows off charts from the failed stimulus, how in debt we are, then juxtapose that into the call for new taxes with a VO that says "Democrats have been shown that they can't be trusted with your money. And now they want more."? It's frustrating to see how out of touch they really are.

83
btw, wtf does Max Bogus mean here?

we should keep working, difficult as it is, and try to balance between Medicare cuts -- additional Medicare cuts -- so long as there is commensurate additional revenue.

Why do you need "additional revenue" if you're cutting?

84 GOP:  Job Killers but DEMS are 'Job Friendly Warriors'

85

"but says he hopes to continue working with the group in a different context."

Different context ?  What the hell is that ?

Like the Israelis would love to walk away from Barky's one-sided "peace process" but hope to "continue working" with the Palestinians "in a different context" - from the cockpit of an F-16, for example ?

86      73 How about replacing the income tax ( repeal of the constitutional amendment allowing the income tax) and replacing it with a federal sales tax?

Posted by: ed at June 23, 2011 02:44 PM (Y2WVW)

************************

This would be a total disaster. If income was freed from the thieving clutches of the feral government then the states would just move in and hike their own income taxes.

(ed:  Why?  States can already tax income, and many do. California, NY, etc)

The real tax problem comes down to the competition between the feral government and the states to rob you blind. Right now, the states are the only ones with access to the general revenue stream at the cashier. If the Feds move into that area then the states will move to other areas to get more money. In the end, people's income and wealth will still be taken by the various governments at about the same level. Better to keep the feds restricted to general income taxes, lest they get sales taxes and then move on to areas of wealth and the like - which they certainly would.

(ed: I'm not sure that the feds would crowd out the states in the sales tax area if the feds move in, but you might be right.  I'm not sure...)

I would not want the feral government to pick up new, different streams for taxes unless it is done Constitutionally and other streams were specifically kept out of the reach of the feds). But, that will never happen, so I remain 100% against a federal sales tax.

(ed: I wouldn't want the feds to get a sales tax unless we revoked the 16th amendment first.  I don't know if constitutionally we would need another amendment to allow the feds to then collect a sales tax.)

progressoverpeace at June 23, 2011 02:51 PM (G/MYk)

87

The GOP plan: 80% cuts, 20% tax increases.

The D plan: 115% tax increases, increased spending.

They couldn't reach a compromise of 95% tax increases, cuts to middle class subsidies, increases to lower class and union subsidies, so Cantor walked.  Clearly the GOP is totally at fault here - just waiting on the NYT to put it in print.

88
Why can't the Republicans make an ad that . . .

Because they eschew the field of art & communication.

89 The libtards just hate the fact that the so called tax breaks are known as the Bush tax cuts.

90 The GOP could agree to a tax increase on the income of anyone who votes for the Democrats in 2012. Everyone else is excluded.

91 If rethuglicans don't raise the debt ceiling it will rjuin the economy. I blame Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Faux news. they want the economy and Obama to fail.

92 Less Baucus.
More Backus.

93

 Mistakes were made.

Jobs were lost.

Money was blinded.

Fraudulent votes were cast.

94 Bob Dole raised taxes to save Social Security.  So if Bob Dole did it then, why are the Republicans ruling out tax increases now?  Haven't Cantor & Boehner & the rest learned smart politics from watching what Bob Dole did?

95 GOP:  Job Killers but DEMS are 'Job Friendly Warriors'
Posted by: © Sponge at June 23, 2011 03:00 PM

The people who comment on that website are even stupider than the people who write for it.

96
Posted by: Evil ATM out to take your job and your women

I wonder where the illegal aliens went. Wait, what's my handle?

97

 

Mistakes were made.

Jobs were lost.

Money was blinded.

Fraudulent votes were cast.

An accident occurred.

98 Yeah!  And Faux News isn't fair and balanced at all!  It's right wing!

If you want real news you have to watch Democracy Now! and Countdown with Keith Olbermann!

99 A tragedy ensued.

100 Makes me smile that several teenagers can now earn money for college.. and a grown man can do something for money... even if its min. wage.

Don't teenagers mow lawns anymore? I used to make serious jack.

101 So if we don't do something we don't want to do, they absolutely won't allow us to do something else that we also don't want to do. We will not allow you to slice off your fingers UNLESS you first stab yourself in the eye with a fork. Is this some sort of sneaky reverse psychology?Because I'm not seeing how this is a particularly persuasive negotiating tactic.

102

If you want real news you have to watch Democracy Now! and Countdown with Keith Olbermann!

Don't forget to read Media Matters every day! 

103
Conservatives must begin paying their fair share, and after all the money stolen from the government by the Republican Party through  self-serving tax policies, it's time to pay the piper. 

104 So I was like "You're a Republican!?!" and the guy says that he just thinks the government should be smaller and taxes should be lower, and I'm like "FUCK YOU, DUDE!  Republicans are just a bunch of racist, sexist *ssh*les!"

105

Now my son got a promotion, raise and got to put the call out to other teenagers who desperately want a job. Illegals are out of work and American teenagers are replacing them.
Posted by: Evil ATM out to take your job and your women

Congratulations to you and your son.  I had to move to Western NY from southern california several years ago.  Funny thing that I found out - That landscapers, gardners, dishwashers, etc. were mostly not from Mexico.  They had actual citizens of the US doing these jobs.  Imagine my surprise as I had always been told in sunny Cali that illegal immigrants were only doing the job that Americans wouldn't.  Imagine my surprise.

My teenage daughter just got a job at a local restaurant and I am so relived.  She was getting pretty discouraged.

106
You haven't been to college unless it was Ivy League.

107 "Don't forget to read Media Matters every day!"

This guy was trying to tell me that the media was liberal, and to "prove it" he sites something from MRC.  I'm like "Dude!  That's a right wing propaganda site!"

So I sent him some Media Matters links to set him straight.

108 The people who comment on that website are even stupider than the people who write for it.

Posted by: huerfano at June 23, 2011 03:09 PM (izDdO)

Well, it IS a lefty site that I have never been to, but thought the spin was quite interesting.

I refuse to troll the comment sections of such sites, so......

109

Posted by: ed at June 23, 2011 03:02 PM (Y2WVW)

I'm personaly in favor of a FLAT National sales tax, as long as it replaces both personal Income Tax, AND Business Taxes.

The immediate boom to business in the US would be huge, as the artificial price increases caused by business taxes would be gone, thus our Exports would be much cheaper on the Worlds Market.. thus adding jobs and capital to OUR country.

Add in that Imports would now be taxed at the same rate as Domestic goods when sold?  Thus making them LESS competitive to internal US markets?  Even more US jobs.

It would also stop the moraly corrupting practice of Federal Government Social Engineering, by making it a FLAT tax... Millionaires would still pay more, as they SPEND more...

And talk about Investment??? Long term investments giving Dividends would RULE, while the micro trades now popular on the market would plummet, because Sales Tax would be charged on EVERY transaction... thus stabalizing the market (IMO the stock market has devolved from a method of aggregating capital to invest and make things, into a virtual Vegas... and this was a bad change).

Just my opinion... and of course nothing is perfect, but I think it is WAY superior to the overlycomplicated system we have today.

110 If the debt ceiling is not raised, then the government can't borrow any more. 40% of Federal spending is borrowed, so there'd have to be a 40% cut in the size of government.

Given that this is the same bunch of cretins and fools that are arming Mexican drug gangs, chasing tent-living fruitloops dictators around a desert, sending FLOTUS on a nonstop worldwide pleasure tour, and entertaining flacks and freaks on nonstop lobster and wagyu beef extravaganzas, who can't get behind an immediate 40% cut?

So, why deal? What could be accomplished that would be better than what is going to happen anyway?

111

Congratulations to you and your son.  I had to move to Western NY from southern california several years ago.  Funny thing that I found out - That landscapers, gardners, dishwashers, etc. were mostly not from Mexico.  They had actual citizens of the US doing these jobs.  Imagine my surprise as I had always been told in sunny Cali that illegal immigrants were only doing the job that Americans wouldn't.  Imagine my surprise.

My nieces and nephews tell me retail and like jobs, that I took for granted 25 years ago at their age, are hard to come by.

112

Its good for them to have a job as a teenager.. teaches them alot.

In retrospect, I would have done more after school job work and less dippy after school "extracurricular" activities.

113 I had to move to Western NY from southern california several years ago.  Funny thing that I found out - That landscapers, gardners, dishwashers, etc. were mostly not from Mexico.  They had actual citizens of the US doing these jobs.  Imagine my surprise as I had always been told in sunny Cali that illegal immigrants were only doing the job that Americans wouldn't.

Very similar experience here - I recently moved from Florida to rural northern Maryland.  In Florida, it was all Mexicans all the time.  Here, it's ordinary Americans of various ethnicities and colors.

114 OT reminder, there is not such thing as red states and blue states...  There are only neuritic blue cities and red small towns and rural areas.

http://tinyurl.com/6em3k6q

link to daily mail, funny how its basically opposite of everything on TV.. its almost as if the media deliberately distorts reality.

115 122

Its good for them to have a job as a teenager.. teaches them alot.

In retrospect, I would have done more after school job work and less dippy after school "extracurricular" activities.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 03:25 PM (ujg0T)

But she was soooo hawt!!! 

116 The rich can solve our deficit problems.

117

Posted by: leftardia at June 23, 2011 03:26 PM (mLAWK)

where'd they get that pic?  I don't think i've ever met any guy in the country that wears "man capris".

118

Its good for them to have a job as a teenager.. teaches them alot.

It sure does, and let's face it - it gets them the hell out of the house!

I am so worried that the R's are going to end up giving in to some degree.  If they do, I hope the RNC is ready for the huge loss in contributions.

119
My first job experience was capitalized with about $5, and consisted of a wood box, brushes, wax, and working businesses for shoeshines.

At 12 years, I could make up to $10 on a good day.  Translated into today's dollars, that would probably be about $50-$60.  Not a bad gig for a kid!

120

But she was soooo hawt!!! 

How did you know? I was stuck in boys prep school and it seemed the only way to meet girls.

In retropsect, even the most menial fast food jobs would have been better for that too. As well as putting $1,500 a year into an IRA in the go-go early 1980's.

121 Very similar experience here - I recently moved from Florida to rural northern Maryland.  In Florida, it was all Mexicans all the time.  Here, it's ordinary Americans of various ethnicities and colors.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 23, 2011 03:25 PM (tqwMN)

 

In N. MD too.  It's very nice, of only we could break off from the Baltimore & Suburban DC counties this would be a great state.

122 "The rich can solve our deficit problems."

Yeah!  How much money do they need, anyway?

*toke*

123

Posted by: Curmudgeon at June 23, 2011 03:29 PM (ujg0T)

Hmmm... in my case?  I was a High School Pole Vaulter who had to train year round... and had a job...

She was a Gymnast... who was so dedicated she had not had a real life...

But dam we had a lot of.... fun.... /smile...

124 103
The people who comment on that website are even stupider than the people who write for it.
Posted by: huerfano at June 23, 2011 03:09 PM (izDdO)

An complete dump of toxic mental waste ...

125

Hmmm... in my case?  I was a High School Pole Vaulter who had to train year round... and had a job...

She was a Gymnast... who was so dedicated she had not had a real life...

But dam we had a lot of.... fun.... /smile...

Lucky you. I spent much of that wretched era among peers who missed the casting for "Lord Of The Flies" and contemplating suicide.

But it is a good lesson for the young ones about compound interest...even assuming the Obamunists Oh-flate our money away, the earlier you start the better.

126 I agree with Democrats.  I agree that we need tax increases.  I don't agree with Dems on who taxes should be raised.  I'm of the opinion that tax increases on the masses who currently pay nothing or next-to-nothing should start kicking at least 10% up.  Who knows what that might buy?  Also, by turning the freeloaders into taxpayers, they might just start getting more conservative about how Government spends its money.

127

Max Baucus- one of the mythical Blue Dog "conservative" Democrats.

Shocking that he'd toe the Dem line of pushing for higher taxes when push came to shove.  It's almost like he was campaigning as someone he's not before getting elected.

128 I would be in favor of a flat 15% tax on ALL income regardless of source and all amounts regardless of how small. No deductions, no carve-outs and no freeloaders. All other federal taxes to be abolished.

The budget would also be limited to the amount from the previous year's tax collections.

This would take an Article V convention.

129 We must spend to get out of debt. - Vice President Bite-me

130

Soothsayer at June 23, 2011 02:32 PM (sqkOB)

Lucy
football
<strike>Charlie Brown</strike><b>GOP</b>

131 [well obviously my tags failed... *sigh*]

132

...and try to balance between Medicare cuts -- additional Medicare cuts -- so long as there is commensurate additional revenue. We need balance here.

 

I must be a moron.  Understand the individual words, but the statement makes no sense to me.

133 They have smelled the blood in the water, weak wobbly republicans, and are going in for the kill.  Tax hikes here we come.

VOTE ALL THE BUMS OUT!

134

GOOD dont you dare return to the table until the other sides understand you are not going to take more money from us ! you jerks cant balance a check book, NO MORE MONEY!!!!

I sure in the hell hope that everyone that is against raising taxes either tweets, emails or calls every member of congress and tells them to NOT RAISE TAXES STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY. Every day starting July 4th Independence day and doesnÂ’t stop until congress gets the message. STOP SPENDING JACKASS.

135 My college age daughter has yet to find employment this summer.  Even the jobs she applied for were only offering 8-14 hours per week, so she would need 2 or even 3 to make any significant money for school.  She can't even snag one.  Even after I convinced her that since no one was going to hire her as CEO, maybe she should lower her expectations and go the fast-food route.  Still no offers.

Now, if this year is like last year, she'll get several calls in August or September wondering if she's still available.  Sure she's available, but she's at school 150 miles away, so it's not really a practical option.

One more year and then she can try to find "a real job," whatever that is.  I'm sure the economy will be totally in the tank by then.  Thanks Obama!

136 All 100 blue-eyes kill themselves at midnight...but only after cooking and eating that fucking Frenchman that started the whole thing.

137

NO TAX HIKES - Budget talks have collapsed all GOP walked out

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148-Awesome!!!!!!

144-If you don't send cheers to your republican congresscritters for this, you are part of the problem.

139

Maybe the Republicans should agree and get the ball rolling with a proposal to increase taxes on congress and union jobs. Just to be fair. Then we will all kick in.

140 Senator Baucus' idea of balance is a boilermaker with 6oz. of beer and 6oz. of whisky. 

Oh, and sweet, sweet staffer poontang to offset the banalities of matrimony.

141

THE DEMOCRATS WANT TAX HIKES LIKE ANTHONY WEINER WANTS HIS DICK SUCKED BY TWITTER GIRLS.

 

142

Tax hikes - oooooh yeah

Tax Hikes -oooooow yeah baby

Tax Hikes- mmmmm oh fuck yeah

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