President Obama Will Seek to Reduce Taxes for Middle Class

[1StrongBlackMan]

119. Well ...

Do you even understand how the drastic tax cuts on the wealthy have hurt the middle class?

Apparently, I don't. Please explain.

I do know, however, that the tax cuts, made permanent, applied the middle and working classes. I, also, know that the tax cuts, made permanent, netted some 60+ billions in revenue ... that (just about) eliminated the deficit and took that fallacious talking point off the gop table. I, also, know that the deal that made the tax cuts permanent, extended U/C compensation for the long term unemployed (at a time when there were NO jobs to be had) and averted a government shut-down that would have hurt the middleclass (and all government beneficiaries) far more.

So please, tell me how making the tax cuts permanent have hurt the middleclass.

We've watched for over thirty years while the middle class continues to lose ground as the wealth in this country is redistributed.

You do realize that the above, undercuts your argument regarding the effects of making the tax cuts permanent, right?

And how would the raising of middle and working class taxes (with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts) have helped the erosion of the middle and working classes?

Here's a question for you SBM.. Why is it that an issue that has such a huge a impact on the welfare of the poor and middle class is relegated a mention in the President's State of the Union address six years into Obama's Presidency when the Republicans have the majority in the House and Senate while the corporate lobbyist created TPP is important enough that it's kept secret until they can fast track it through congress?

I don't understand your question ... a proposal for tax reform will be mentioned in this SOTU Address because it is an initiative that President Obama (and the Democratic representative that recently wrote the mirroring legislation) plan to pursue ... when else should it be mentioned?

But I don't understand your TPP talk ... how does a currently being negotiated trade deal figure into the SOTU mix ... what is President Obama to say about it?

From what I see, you are throwing a bunch of tangentially connected grievances against the President's wall hoping that something sticks ...IOWs, your solutions do not fix your grievances. Taxing the wealthy more (while raising taxes on the middle and working classes ... i.e., reversing the Bush tax cuts) will not appreciably affect the wealth transfer from the middle and working classes, absent a direct transfer of revenues to the middle and working class ... IOOWs, while reducing the wealthy's wealth would close the wealth gap ... some ... it does not approve the state of the middle and working classes.