the lies of David W, Corn

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3. This is a disgusting attack on Corn.

So, the accursed payroll tax cut is good for progressives. Some sort of victory for working people, or wait - the middle class.

The accursed payroll tax cut gave $13.55 billion in benefits to the bottom 40%, and $15.79 billion in benefits to the RICHEST 5%. And it gives a whopping $36.2 billion to the next 15%, making a grand total of $52 billion for the top 20% and less than a third of that for the bottom 40%.

But politicians like Bush, and now Obama, always want to include that 80-95th percentile group as part of the "middle class". That way, they can claim that tax cuts which give as much to the top 5% as they do to the middle 20% are really "middle class tax cuts".

"politicians like Bush, and now Obama"?

WTF?

Stop accusing everyone of being DLC for supporting the payroll tax cut, which John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich also voted for in 2012. Are they DLC?

House Passes Payroll Tax Cut Extension

The House of Representatives on Friday passed the payroll tax cut extension and unemployment benefits package 293-132.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/house-passes-payroll-tax-cut-extension

Roll call: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll072.xml

Senate Passes Payroll Tax Cut Deal

Shortly after the House passed the payroll tax cut compromise, the Senate followed suit, passing the measure by a 60-36 vote. The measure now heads to President Obama.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/senate-passes-payroll-tax-cut-deal

Senate roll call: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00022

The 2010 tax deal included a lot of good things, including extending unemployment benefits, the EITC and expanding Medicaid for six months, which ended in June 2011.

Extra Medicaid payments to states end this month
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/16/985830/-Extra-Medicaid-payments-to-states-end-this-month