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  1. zoidknight

    zoidknight said, 5 months ago

    Nice try, it should read Senate, not Congress.

  2. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

    Filling it with their pork. Dems create crisis’s so they can exploit them.

  3. disgustedtaxpayer

    disgustedtaxpayer said, 5 months ago

    Senate 2 a.m. began this TAX DAY of Infamy…House ended it with 11 p.m. vote ensuring another $4 Trillion addition to the US Debt by 2022….parts of the bill are stopgap until a February 2013 new battle in congress.
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    77% of taxpayers must pay more IRS tax.
    Spending will increase by $332 Billion as the Treasury prints new “dollar” bills….and for 2 months the agreed spending cuts of $110 Billion are suspended….IMO never to be cut.
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    Obama in his triumphant speech made it crystal clear he intends to continue raising taxes and redistributing OTHER PEOPLE’S WEALTH….Voters, what hath ye wrought?

  4. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Crisis’s?

  5. Respectful Troll

    Respectful Troll said, 5 months ago

    If anyone finds a website identifying the bills added to the fiscal cliff agreement I would like to see it. If amendments, pork, riders, earmarks, etc were added to this bill and slowed or weakened, I want to know so I can complain to my legislators properly. We need to give the next President the line item veto. And I say the next President because no one knows if that will be a Dem, Rep, or other, so both parties are more able to approve this in a bipartisan fashion.
    Respectfully,
    C.

  6. rightisright

    rightisright said, 5 months ago

    @disgustedtaxpayer

    Oh, c’mon, there were never going to be spending cuts. There never are. Unlike the regular mafia, the federal mafia never bumps anyone off…they wouldn’t be able to spend more henchman money.

  7. ruff

    ruff said, 5 months ago

    @Respectful Troll

    All the 153 pages of it ? I just wonder how many of the lawmakers that voted on it really read the whole thing and understood what they were voting on.

  8. braindead08

    braindead08 said, 5 months ago

    @Respectful Troll

    The Supreme Court already struck down the line item veto when Clinton was president.
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    BTW, I don’t disagree.

  9. disgustedtaxpayer

    disgustedtaxpayer said, 5 months ago

    http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/31/news/economy/more-fiscal-cliffs/index.html
    “3 More Fiscal Cliffs” printed 2 pages

  10. Cinci Steve

    Cinci Steve said, 5 months ago

    So the average family will have about $150 less per month when they are already struggling to pay the bills.

    And this is an “accomplishment”???

  11. ARodney

    ARodney said, 5 months ago

    My wife and I are losing over $3000 in tax raises this year, because of the expiration of the payroll tax cut (that was the EFFECTIVE tax cut). I wish we had rational people in charge instead of Republicans, maybe we could get this economy moving again. The deficit is largely due to the depression, once the economy gets moving (which requires government stimulus, since the private sector is sitting on its hands), the deficit will be greatly reduced.

  12. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    Mr. Ima, have you caught Peter King’s whining because the “Sandy bill” didn’t get passed to send money to HIS area? I DO think that it’s the fed that protects people in states and counties, “general welfare”, when disaster strikes they can’t afford to handle on their own (don’t believe in “sink or swim” like "conservatives), but it IS interesting how it’s Republicans who are against helping their “neighbors”, but sure scream if THEY don’t get the “pork”.

  13. 4my10851cs

    4my10851cs said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    once again … right on

  14. disgustedtaxpayer

    disgustedtaxpayer said, 5 months ago

    @Rodney….i disagree with your post.
    1. the GOP is not “in charge” of the federal government.
    since the GOP gained the majority in the House, they passed dozens of “rational” bills that the Dems in the Senate filed in the Wastebasket.
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    2. the recession has 2 “causes”….failures in home mortgages due to Fannie and Freddy interfering with loaners…coercing loans to buyers without the ability to repay….business slowdowns and joblessness….all due to government intrusions. The biggest cause IMO is elected members of congress plus a spendthrift president addicted to spending more on any past program plus new programs to “help” businesses and individuals who vote Democrat….running 4 years of more than $1 Trillion deficits each year….boosting January 1, 2009 total debt of $10.6 Trillion to December 2012 total of $16.4 Trillion!

  15. M Ster

    M Ster said, 5 months ago

    @disgustedtaxpayer

    The Federal Budget period runs from Oct 1 to the following Sep 30th. The figures you quoted were for Sep 30th 2008 and Sep 30th 2012. Note that Bush’s $800 billion TARP was in the budget that ran from Oct 1 2008 to Sep 30 2009. So were a few months of expenses for the 2 wars that were not in any of W’s budgets. That period ended with an $11.9 trillion total debt.
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    When you subtract $1 trillion or so from Obama’s record and add it to W Bush’s, the comparison is a bit different.

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