Give the rich their tax breaks. If they don't hire people, take them back.

[sixmile]

Idle money helps no one but the bankers.
That is all.

[NightWatcher]

1. they've had this cut for ten years and the economy is still in the shitter

point made

[Capn Sunshine]

27. That's right. WHERES THE JOBS FROM THE PAST TEN YEARS???

:nuke:

[Lugnut]

34. And made well.

I keep waiting for one of the copy readers in the MSM to ask a Republic this question. Apparently pigs will fly before that happens.

[aquart]

2. Let the tax breaks sunset.

Then the government will be able to fund the projects that do create jobs.

Rich people don't create jobs and they don't give back.

[sixmile]

3. Make them put their money where their mouths are

Conditions are ripe for TWO-sided negotiating.

[feuclair]

21. Agree, let them sunset

though not for your exact reasons. The really poor will not be effected. If the middle class does,'t like it, cast blame on the GOPers. That is where it belongs. We cannot afford to borrow more money to give the upper 1.5 percent another gimme.

[avaistheone1]

35. Absolutely

Bye,bye tax cut. This is a no brainer. :hi:

[Hello_Kitty]

4. They already get to deduct their labor expenses and there are tax credits for hiring available

Employers already get plenty of tax breaks for hiring.

[sixmile]

6. SO you're saying their argument for tax cuts is bullshit?

Now if the D's could learn to mouthpiece this meme to the rest of the country..

[robinlynne]

5. We've been there and done that.

[driver8]

7. I disagree. Let them expire -- they get enough breaks.

Tax breaks for the rich don't help the economy one bit -- we have seen that, already.

[meow mix]

8. were already at that point.

time to take it back

[Goldstein1984]

9. Let them hire people, and give them tax breaks according to staffing levels

The masses can idle their money too. Divest from large banks in favor of local banks and credit unions, and buy nothing that isn't essential. Use cash instead of credit and debit cards--less big brother, and fewer fees paid to corporate fatcats.

Make Christmas a bust this year--a huge bust--and watch the DJIA tumble.

Stop being the biggest market for Chinese products, and watch the world economy follow.

Hold the economy hostage. It's what the adversary does.

Yes, it will hurt us too. That's how war is. This is war--class war--and right now the lower class in marching mindlessly into the enemy's fire zones.

We're doing our part.

[NNN0LHI]

10. They got those tax breaks about ten years ago

Ho many jobs have they created so far with them in place?

Don

[CTyankee]

11. Chris Hayes of the Nation magazine was saying on MOrning Joe that

there was zero job growth during the Bush years. He threw that in the face of repuke congressman Camp and Camp had no response...

[sixmile]

12. Then why isn't our President saying that every day?

Or Congress?

Because they're are mostly millionaires.

[Xicano]

30. Are you kidding me!? They've created a shit load of jobs, are you blind or something?

Of course I am referring to all the jobs they've created in China, India and other places where they can pay slave wages and shit all over the environment as well.

No more tax cuts for the rich. We need to double their taxes if you ask me and while we're at it we need to also penalize all imports from offshore businesses with high enough tariffs to make it not worth it to outsource jobs. Well, that's my humble opinion anyway.

I also like the idea I saw posted somewhere else yesterday. Lower the retirement age to 55 opening millions of jobs to currently unemployed. I would add if there's any shortfall to fund social security (which I don't believe would be the case), we can get it by cutting defense spending.

[NNN0LHI]

31. I'll go one step further. A 4-day workweek for the current 5 days of pay should become the standard

Eight hours a day too. A six-day workweek used to be the standard. I say 5 days of work out of 7 is too much. I bet it hurts productivity and raises health care costs.

Don

[Xicano]

32. I like that idea.

And agree with your points.

:hi:

[DJ13]

13. Obama needs to be firm on no tax breaks if the GOP wont give in

Then while he still has a majority in the House have Congress draft an immediate reconciliation on just the middle class breaks.

[Owl]

14. No. Simply no.

[Sherman A1]

22. Precisely

[Zen Democrat]

15. Give it to them? They already have it and look at the NO JOBS!

[Pyrzqxgl]

16. Why not make it against the law to be a millionaire & spread some of that loot around to us po' folk

[Skidmore]

17. And how will this happen with Congress in Republican control??

[leftstreet]

18. SEIZE THEIR ASSETS n/t

[sarcasmo]

19. Eat the Rich. We have already given the Elite to much control.

[Wounded Bear]

20. Again? nt

[patrice]

23. You don't appear to appreciate how that would further enslave & disempower those who

the rich already have under their boot-heal, making it increasingly impossible to "take them back" and that geometric progression of slavery only insures itself in perpetuity until violence happens. So the longer it is put off the more painful and ultimately violent that "take them back" that you are referring to will be.

[Warren Stupidity]

24. 30 years of break after break after break....

and this wreck of a national economy is the direct result of piss-on-the-rest-of-us pandering to the rich.

Sorry. No.

[spanone]

25. once they are extended, they will never be rescinded.

[charlyvi]

26. Rich people don't create jobs.

Demand creates jobs. The idea that shoveling more money in the coffers of the rich will create more jobs is a joke. No one creates a job if there is no demand for the service or product the job produces. If the demand exists, jobs will be created to fill that demand. Put money in the hands of people who have to spend it, or who will spend it, and the jobs will follow. Putting money in the hands of those who control 93% of the nation's wealth already is throwing it in a pig's ass. They already have money to create jobs but they don't. Why? No demand.

[rucky]

28. How about a 1:1 tax break with every point unemployment goes down.

If it goes down to 7.8, they'll get their 2 percent.

[old mark]

29. Let them all sunset, and pay down the Bush war defecit. nt

[applegrove]

33. The baby boomers are going to start to retire in 2014 or earlier. So the employment rate

would go up naturally in the near future. But I'm sure the GOP will claim it was tax cuts on the rich that did it. Just like Rudy Giuliani claimed his painting subway cars stopped crime in New York (it was really fewer kids to do crimes that was the reason).

The GOP love love love great waves of myth that can be woven into the narrative of the right.

[RegieRocker]

36. No freakin way!!!! They can take that carrot and pretend it's

a tube of preparation h.