Ryan Opposes Payroll Tax Cut, Wealthy Tax Hikes

[CountDeMoney]

Berkut is more fun than you. 

[Admiral Yi]

You are not a rich billionnaire, why do you oppose tax increases for them?

I don't.

[Grey Fox]

You are not a rich billionnaire, why do you oppose tax increases for them?

I don't.

Stop voting Republican then.

[Admiral Yi]

Stop voting Republican then.

How much of the thread did you actually read Wolfman?

[Grey Fox]

Stop voting Republican then.

How much of the thread did you actually read Wolfman?

Every post but the article. Not that it had any influence on the message I'm trying to tell you.

[DGuller]

I think a lie is a lie no matter who says it, and you think facts are negotiable as long as you're on the right side.

Facts are just a tool to arrive at the truth. 

[Admiral Yi]

NPR had a story on cap gains/dividends.

Cal, you were right about tax rate on dividends. 

The tax rate on cap gains/dividends was 28% under Reagan, 20% under Clinton, 15% under Bush II.  The Bush cuts were due to expire along with his other cuts but got extended for two years with the others back in November.

[Fate]

Why was Obama such a pussy on the Bush tax cut extension? Let all of that shit expire. All he had to do was veto the extension in the unlikely event it cleared a filibuster.

[Caliga]

Why was Obama such a pussy on the Bush tax cut extension? Let all of that shit expire. All he had to do was veto the extension in the unlikely event it cleared a filibuster.

Probably for the same reason he's a pussy about everything, which I don't know why that is.

[Neil]

Why was Obama such a pussy on the Bush tax cut extension? Let all of that shit expire. All he had to do was veto the extension in the unlikely event it cleared a filibuster.

Probably for the same reason he's a pussy about everything, which I don't know why that is.

Because he's afraid that if he's too ambitious in his pursuit of sensible policy, he might not be reelected.  And he doesn't have much in the way of beliefs anyways.

[CountDeMoney]

I dunno...maybe he felt extending them would've been enough of a bone to assuage the opposition when pushing through Obamacare.  If so, he wiffed on that one.  Big time.

[Ideologue]

Why was Obama such a pussy on the Bush tax cut extension? Let all of that shit expire. All he had to do was veto the extension in the unlikely event it cleared a filibuster.

Probably for the same reason he's a pussy about everything, which I don't know why that is.

He did bomb Libya.  It's a thin reed, but there I am, grasping it.

[Admiral Yi]

Why was Obama such a pussy on the Bush tax cut extension? Let all of that shit expire. All he had to do was veto the extension in the unlikely event it cleared a filibuster.

What do you mean such a pussy?  It was his fucking idea. 

[CountDeMoney]

Why was Obama such a pussy on the Bush tax cut extension? Let all of that shit expire. All he had to do was veto the extension in the unlikely event it cleared a filibuster.

What do you mean such a pussy?  It was his fucking idea. 

But you know he didn't really mean it.

[Admiral Yi]

He meant the hell out of it.  It delivered Keynsian stimulus and it allowed him to keep his campaign promise about not raising taxes on the Schumer class...


...until after the 2012 election.