Tax cuts

[realFedUp]

Why, with all this country's debt, are tax cuts even on the table, FOR ANYONE?

The middle class tax cuts amount to very little and we continue to subsidize and dig a larger debt hole for ourselves,
by giving corporations and the very richest in this country a handout that WE CAN"T AFFORD.
They seem to be doing quite well without us giving them welfare.

I see very little that Bush Inc. did right and a lot that should be undone.
The Bush era taxcuts should expire and energy should be in taxing those
corporations who hide profits offshore and don't pay their fair share for
being an "American" companies.

Can we get our priorities straight for once?

[rustyd55]

1. where is the logic

Do people really believe tax cuts for corps help.Look at the economy with 8 yrs of Clinton then 8 years of Bush are these people that stupid.

[zbdent]

2. and the tax cuts were still in place all through this recession ...

where are all the jobs they promised?

[customerserviceguy]

3. Letting them expire is the best thing

Yes, the Rethugs in the House will try to pass a big fat tax cut for everyone (especially the rich), but then they will lose all credibility when it comes to 'fiscal restraint'. By the time the 2012 election rolls around, either the economy will have recovered, or it won't, and that will determine the outcome. It won't be as a result of a courageous decision the President will make in January or February to veto the Repuke plans.

[pnwmom]

4. Because after all these years, the change would be felt as a tax INCREASE.

And the middle and working class is having it tough enough these days without coping with an increase.

[realFedUp]

5. Not an increase

If Democrats really had great messaging, it's called the end of welfare for the very richest
or howabout going back to the tax rates Reagan put into place.

The tax cuts for the middle and lower working classes really don't add up to much
and this administration should quit pretending they do.

A better way is to stop corporations from avoiding their fair share.

[bluestate10]

6. Tax cuts.

President Obama seems to be caving in and remaining democrats are running scared. Democrats don't have anyone in power that is clever enough to turn the tables on republicans. Nancy Pelosi is a tough, smart person, but she is so caught up in how taxation and spending is handled now, that she is unlikely to come up with innovative challenges to republicans push for tax cuts. Steny Hoyer is nothing more than ,say, an offensive coordinator of a losing football team that gets appointed head coach after the head coach is fired. How insane would one need to be to expect novel policy from Hoyer? Despite the heroic circumstances of his life, I have never been impressed by Jim Clayburn as a person that can lead democrats from our current purgatory. Congresswoman Marci Kaptur seems to have the right stuff, but she would have to navigate past a lot of more senior, but unimpressive, Representatives to take the lead democrat seat in the House. I just don't see President Obama showing some backbone and pulling the House and Senate with him. Our one hope, like it or not, may be Harry Reid. But Reid would have to reason that he is 70 years old and don't care about getting re-elected or having his son elected to his seat. If Harry Reid is done with elections, there is nothing to stop him from rallying democrats and using muscle against potential holdouts like Ben Nelson.