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Sunlei

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30. think I found the article, was the only recent google with CBS and piano words in it.

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 05:35 PM

Dec 2012

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57557410/va-family-fiscal-cliff-bickering-hurts-real-people-outside-d.c--bubble/

The Bush tax cuts will expire, then the wealthy and everyone else will pay more taxes. This family will pay about 3k more **if the only action that happens** is the Bush tax cuts expire.

That is why today President Obama keeps asking Americans to push Congress into signing a new tax break for people making their first 250k a year.

The new tax bill is needed from Congress so anyone making less than 250,000 will have the same income tax as today.

When you read the story this family expressed what 3k in more taxes means to them..it means cutting out a family luxury like piano lessons. personally if I needed to cut 3k from a family budget fast cell phones and cable TV would go first. That's more than 3k a year for most families.

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Just watch a story on the CBS Nightly News about a family making $64,000 -&100,000 being so upset [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2012 OP

Their taxes won't go up at all! The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2012 #1

That does not stop the ignorant from peddling the propaganda liberal N proud Dec 2012 #4

I was going to say the same thing. They are just yapping because they can. Dumb people southernyankeebelle Dec 2012 #15

Well they will for a little bit Springslips Dec 2012 #26

Were they worried about the alt minimum tax? Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #28

And I'd bet money CBS didn't correct this falsehood. Matariki Dec 2012 #66

payroll taxes are due to go back up 0rganism Dec 2012 #70

So you want this family to live on $600 a month? leftstreet Dec 2012 #2

I believe the original intent of the poster was to cite excess and the complaint of losing it. Selatius Dec 2012 #7

Thank you Selatius Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2012 #8

Yet there are people who make their living as piano teachers AlexSatan Dec 2012 #18

Really? SammyWinstonJack Dec 2012 #25

Yes, really AlexSatan Dec 2012 #55

Don't worry abelenkpe Dec 2012 #56

I realize that AlexSatan Dec 2012 #58

what are you doing to help ensure that piano teachers are employed? frylock Dec 2012 #62

I'd rather not make my daughter give up her piano lessons gollygee Dec 2012 #24

On The Courteous Assumption, Ma'am, You Are Not Just Being deliberately Obtuse Here The Magistrate Dec 2012 #31

See my post #29 gollygee Dec 2012 #32

We Are In Agreement Wages Should Be Higher, Ma'am The Magistrate Dec 2012 #37

Is your assumption is that they are whining and not just explaining what the tax cut means to them? gollygee Dec 2012 #38

Short Of A Certain Threshold Of Real Suffering, Ma'am, All Complaint is Just Whining.... The Magistrate Dec 2012 #41

Were they complaining or just answering a question? gollygee Dec 2012 #43

Perhaps That is The Case, Ma'am The Magistrate Dec 2012 #48

Is that an Al Bundy joke? AlexSatan Dec 2012 #60

And discounting things like piano lessons AlexSatan Dec 2012 #35

You A Funny Fella, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2012 #39

Thank you sir, may I have another? AlexSatan Dec 2012 #44

Not If You Do Not Hold Up Your End Better, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2012 #46

Unless those dead-line AlexSatan Dec 2012 #47

But Why Should Any Of It Be Focused On You, Sir? The Magistrate Dec 2012 #51

Mainly because of my awesomeness AlexSatan Dec 2012 #59

There are people who make gold plated toilets as well tkmorris Dec 2012 #67

I prefer to be concerned about all jobs AlexSatan Dec 2012 #72

What then of the working class piano teacher? leftstreet Dec 2012 #50

and what of the BMW salesperson? frylock Dec 2012 #64

Yes, that person is also working class leftstreet Dec 2012 #65

So what is your point? bluestateguy Dec 2012 #3

See post #7 Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2012 #9

I suspect that the point... Lightbulb_on Dec 2012 #22

What rise in taxes? It won't happen unless we go over "the cliff," pnwmom Dec 2012 #5

That is another thing about the report that drove me nuts. Lady Freedom Returns Dec 2012 #12

I like to call it propaganda by omission. You report one fact and leave out several others. Selatius Dec 2012 #14

May or may not apply, but I was listening to Democracy Now! and heard... Poll_Blind Dec 2012 #6

Boohoo. Most my family lives on less than half of that. Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #10

I know people who make live on a quarter of that AlexSatan Dec 2012 #19

Are you their spokesperson? Ikonoklast Dec 2012 #21

Wow! Nice distraction! AlexSatan Dec 2012 #23

I believe that there exists a family that is so poor they are dying of starvation. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #33

Thank you! gollygee Dec 2012 #34

+1 for the first part AlexSatan Dec 2012 #36

You do understand that it is not actually going to happen, right? Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #49

Perhaps AlexSatan Dec 2012 #54

+1 leftstreet Dec 2012 #45

You are so awesome. Ikonoklast Dec 2012 #63

They haven't had their taxes increase, at least not those originating at the Federal level. nt Codeine Dec 2012 #11

Oh, holy crap! FredStembottom Dec 2012 #13

Why would the child's piano lessons be the first thing they would cut? surrealAmerican Dec 2012 #16

It's a bullshit temper tantrum. Mariana Dec 2012 #68

Wrongful firring is hard to fix jberryhill Dec 2012 #17

No sympathy for them. closeupready Dec 2012 #20

The OP strikes me as peddling a red-herring to spread a false meme that middle-class taxes will rise leveymg Dec 2012 #27

The execs at Hostess follow that same kind of logic gollygee Dec 2012 #29

think I found the article, was the only recent google with CBS and piano words in it. Sunlei Dec 2012 #30

But the parents couldn't watch Fox News if they turned the cable off. Mariana Dec 2012 #69

fox lies is on 'free TV' too, those who do not have cable are a huge propaganda target. Sunlei Dec 2012 #71

Is it? Wow, I'm fortunate, then. Mariana Dec 2012 #73

Its the media trying to scare the middle class into allowing the cuts for the top 2% JoePhilly Dec 2012 #40

Exactly, Sir The Magistrate Dec 2012 #42

I used to have a breakdown libodem Dec 2012 #52

Only people who already have much think they are entitled OldHippieChick Dec 2012 #53

Piano lessons are greedy? gollygee Dec 2012 #61

Sounds like someone is overpaid.... Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #57