Majority don't want US in debt; they want Top 2%ers taxed at normal preBushCheney rates

[ShockediSay]

Then we'd be a stronger more prosperous nation.

The Top Two Percenters never really created jobs anyway

They lined their pockets at the expense of 98% of US,
with their Wall Street Bubble, their debt bubble, their3
National debt bubble, their housing bubble - - They Tanked
The Economy! And now their back on top while the rest of
us are hurting AND their enjoying the taxpayer subsidized
BushyCheney tax rates, the lowest in 60 years.

Want to get out of debt and get our economy moving?
Put the wealth of the nation, which they pocketed, to work.

PS Whose money do you think is funding the Tea Potty types?
Do you think this business about cuts, cuts, cuts for 98%
of US is anything but The Top Two Percenters attempt to
evade and avoid paying back the nation that made them wealthy?

[WinkyDink]

1. I'm for pre-REAGAN rates.

[prairierose]

2. Oh, yes..I agree....n/t

[steelmania75]

12. [phone]

Increasing the top marginal tax rate to 80%, which it was during the Eisenhower era, would do wonders in decreasing the national debt quickly and efficiently. Also, cutting the military budget from $1.4 trillion a year to $100 billion a year would be a cute idea as well.

[Motown_Johnny]

15. I would even settle for Reagan first term rates

as a starting point

[gkhouston]

19. I'm for pre-KENNEDY rates. n/t

[Newest Reality]

3. That does not, from any angle I can see it,

seem to be the will or the plan here.

What we want is not what they are willing to give via the traditional, political and economic routes.

We are in between a rock and a hard place. It is going to take understanding what is going on, unity of the people, strength to push back the corporate takeover, and a stubborn determination to do what is necessary.

[RKP5637]

5. We have the illusion of a democracy and many people are deluded. If the people actually

were well informed and got what they wanted this would be a far different place. As some of us were discussing here tonight at home, we're just F'en fed up with the whole mess and the endless BS year after year after year after year. As Bernard Madoff said, and he should know, the whole place is a Ponzi scheme.

[dkf]

4. The numbers dont work out just going back to Bush rates for the top 2%

Reversing all the bush tax cuts gets us over 3x more, but even that isn't enough to balance the budget much less pay down debt.

[RandomKoolzip]

10. At least it's SOMETHING.

Plus, the method we're attmepting now - cutting necessary social programs budget items Republicans don't like - is most likely even less effective in balancing the budget. So why are we choosing the road that will do the most harm for the greatest amount of people instead of the road that will do a minute amount of harm to those who can take it and still make it?

[ShockediSay]

16. Because that's what The Top Two Percenters want AND

That's what they got their Right Wing Propaganda Machine (including the Tea Potty Types they Bankroll)hammering away at day in and day out on the 'Main Stream Media' they control.

[ShockediSay]

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[ShockediSay]

17. One year of BushyCheney Top Two % Tax Cuts Cost $400BILLION! nt

[Cali_Democrat]

18. Eisenhower tax rates for the rich

Tax 'em at 90%

[salinen]

6. If 98% wanted 2% to pay more taxes

it would not happen. Democracy is dead.

[ShockediSay]

20. We need a Facebook/Twitter Revolution nt

[LonePirate]

7. We also need the capital gains tax rate to return to 2000 levels

Simply restoring the regular tax brackets is insufficient. We also need to eliminate the outright theft known as carried interest.

[indepat]

8. We also need to eliminate the preferred tax treatment of dividends, subject all earned

income to social security payroll taxes, and eliminate all corporate tax loopholes. But everyone, especially every politician, knows all this, but this fiscal madness and patently unfair tax scheme were created with full malice of forethought for it was fully known the explosion of the Federal debt/its un-sustainability would arrive with vengeance about the time the baby-boomer generation begin reaching retirement age so the government could renege on the benefits promised: to wit, we are witnessing a well-orchestrated operation tantamount to a racket that so dwarfs the financial impact of all organized crime to such an extent, it is relegated to relative financial insignificance in comparison. :patriot:

Edited for verb tense

[Curmudgeoness]

9. I want to go back to the 1950's tax rates.

I am so fed up with the cry babies who are in the 2%. Like my mother said, "I'll give you something to cry about".

91% top tax rate might give them something to cry about. And they can't convince me that it will stifle the economy...1950's were not bad.

[Scuba]

11. Eisenhower rates work for me. n/t

[devils chaplain]

13. Of course we do...

And we always have, and everyone knows it, elected officials included.