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   PlainBill said, 4 months ago

   What a moron – Kelly can’t remember the old tax cut – which was due to expire 4 years ago.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago

   “New Taxes” as defined by the GOP is “Ending $4 billion a year tax cuts for Exxon, BP and others”. There is such a HUGE amount of subsidiaries given to large corporations. Even the “financial cliff” deal included money (tax breaks) for Bacardi and NASCAR. It has become impossible to get a clean bill on the Resolute desk, there is always pork for some industry or some senator or some representative. No wonder Congress is less popular than head lice…
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   ReFlex-76 said, 4 months ago

   - People in Europe who pay real taxes play tiny violins.

   - BTW, taxes still at the lowest rates since the 1950s.

   - Officially, President Obama will be the best US President since FDR on 2017. Unofficially, he already is.
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   DavidGBA said, 4 months ago

   Old taxes we need to cut the deficit.
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   ARodney said, 4 months ago

   Funny how the conservative cartoonists have now shown boulders representing debt, and boulders representing taxes. Which is it? They’re opposites, one is a result of eliminating the other.
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   californicated1 said, 4 months ago

   Considering that the idiot Senator from California (this time Barbara Boxer—but she is interchangeable with Feinstein) wants to levy a “Carbon Tax” on top of the Fuel Taxes we already pay to the Federal Government when we buy our gasoline, this will probably be one of the new taxes “in the mix” as the San Francisco “Chronicle” and its SFGate.com website have reported.

   We’ve been taxed enough already!
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   echoraven said, 4 months ago

   @DavidGBA

   The trouble with “old”, “new” or simply "more taxes is that little or none will end up to cut the deficit. Most of it will end up in increases for entitlements or pork.

   …and as a side “benefit” it will be a drag on a already struggling economy.
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   Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago

   Hey guys. Think about what John just said:
   
   “Hardworking taxpayers understand that they’ve got to balance their budgets, whether it’s every week or every month. They also believe that it’s time for Washington to balance its budget.
   
   “Over the last four years House Republicans have offered plans – our budget plans – we’ve done our budgets, but it’s been nearly four years since the Senate has done a budget. Most Americans believe you don’t do your job, you shouldn’t get paid, and that’s the basis for no budget, no pay. It’s time for the Senate to act.
   
   “Chairman Paul Ryan has worked hard with the Budget Committee to outline the kind of reforms that we would put in place to bring real fiscal responsibility here to Washington. And I think the American people understand that you can’t continue to spend money that you don’t have. It’s time for us to come to a plan that will in fact balance the budget over the next 10 years. It’s our commitment to the American people, and we hope the Senate will do their budget as they should have done over the last four years.”
   
   Sounds like a plan to me
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   SkepticCal said, 4 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   In tax reform, let us not omit the massive subsidies to the the Film Entertainment Industry.
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    wmconelly said, 4 months ago

    Gotta pay to play, Kelley, agreed? What say we get everybody who’s playin’ payin’ an equal percentage. Mitt Romney comes to mind. He pays 14% (when he pays at all); I’m payin’ north of 35. What’dya say, Kelley? Got room in your cartoons for a few numerical facts?
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    ruff said, 4 months ago

    The only way to get out of the hole is to increase all taxes 30% and decrease all spending 30%. All the way, everybody. No more pointing at the other guy and saying ‘not mine’.
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    mhmercer said, 4 months ago

    I believe that all voters who choose to pay less in taxes should be relieved of the burden of the benefits earned through those payments. No more public highway system for them, nor the purchase of pharmaceuticals overseen by the Food and Drug Administration.
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    bobwinners said, 4 months ago

    They are not ‘new’ taxes, but a return to a level of taxation that pays the bills.
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    ReFlex-76 said, 4 months ago

    @californicated1

    “We’ve been taxed enough already!”

    - We have the lowest tax rates in six decades, and someone writes this.

    - This is what happens when the populace is poorly informed.
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    SkepticCal said, 4 months ago

    @mhmercer

    Yes, less in tax should lead to less in the benefits earned through those tax payments.
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    Suggestions might include (1) a public education system, which promotes political action over student education, (2) housing allowances for those who won’t bother to provide a roof for their own families and (3) tax subsides for a Film Entertainment Industry, whose accountants are more clever than the script writers.
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    Three of the many benefits of Nannystate government that we could nicely be relieved of.
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