Let rich pay to fix deficit, say Americans

[Rick Rowlands]

Oh how you twist the language...

There are no "more tax breaks" anywhere in the compromise. It is simply extending the EXISTING tax rates.  The only change in tax law is the INCREASE in the estate tax to 35% from ZERO. 

Please, someone who has the ability to reason (that excludes Dennis) explain to me how the hell this country can ever balance the budget on tax increases on the wealthy?  The wealthy do not have enough wealth, even if the government confiscated ALL PROPERTY owned by the top 20% to pay the government's bills for one year, yet we are being led to believe that the land of milk and honey awaits if we only tax the rich more. 

[irishbobcat]

Of course the Rich are just "Poor Bystanders"......

They have to have their evil neo-con Republican Senators hold up

unemployment benefits to thousands of struggling poor Americans just so they the

rich get more and more tax breaks......

[Rick Rowlands]

Of course.  That is human nature.  They want it all and want someone else to pay.  What really is apparent in the poll is that a majority of Americans are reacting to emotions and have not expended much thought about the issue.  The phrasology of the questions also will skew the results of the poll.

This current trend toward scapegoating the rich is eerily similar to the Germans scapegoating of the Jews in the 1930s.   I guess that is human nature as well. 

[irishbobcat]

Let rich pay to fix deficit, say Americans
Sunday, December 12, 2010  03:01 AM
By Heidi Przybyla and Mike Dorning

Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — Americans want Congress to bring down a federal budget deficit that many believe is "dangerously out of control" only under two conditions: minimize the pain and make the rich pay.

The public wants Congress to keep its hands off entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security, a Bloomberg National Poll shows. They oppose cuts in most other major domestic programs and defense. They want to maintain subsidies for farmers and tax breaks like the mortgage-interest deduction.