Seriously, GOP? Really?

[regexcellent]

Are you sure he wasn't joking? It's a pretty good line.

"Do you know of any communist infiltrators?"
"Yes I do."
*beat*
"The Congressional Progressive Caucus"
*rimshot*

[Dinner]

BTW just more problems with the Ryan plan. For a guy making exactly the median income he'd get a 0.1% tax cut but the top 1% would get a 12% tax cut. Let's admit that this isn't an across the board tax cut but a giant tax give away to the Republicans biggest donors and no one else.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews/#46997851

BTW the buffet rule wouldn't solve our budget problems by itself (it would only reduce the deficit by about 6%) but requiring the upper incomes to at least pay the same rate as the middle class earners is just a simple fairness issue as well as common sense. Don't let them wezil out and just pay effective rates of about 12% while the middle class pays ~30%. Making it so they MUST pay the same 30% is a good place to start.

[giblets]

BTW just more problems with the Ryan plan. For a guy making exactly the median income he'd get a 0.1% tax cut but the top 1% would get a 12% tax cut. Let's admit that this isn't an across the board tax cut but a giant tax give away to the Republicans biggest donors and no one else.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews/#46997851

BTW the buffet rule wouldn't solve our budget problems by itself (it would only reduce the deficit by about 6%) but requiring the upper incomes to at least pay the same rate as the middle class earners is just a simple fairness issue as well as common sense. Don't let them wezil out and just pay effective rates of about 12% while the middle class pays ~30%. Making it so they MUST pay the same 30% is a good place to start.

What does Wezil have to do with this? Does he hate the middle class?

[Dinner]

weasel

[kentonio]

Nah but being a Lt. Colonel and Bronze Star recipient entitles you to some respect a little better than being called a nutjob.

That'd be Lt. Colonel Allan West who retired after being charged with violating articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice after a suspect was badly beaten in custody, right?

[Wezil]

The abuse just never ends.

[Dr Strangelove]

We can eliminate our problems with paying fior SSI and health care simply by removing the upper limit cap on FICA and SECA.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Nah but being a Lt. Colonel and Bronze Star recipient entitles you to some respect a little better than being called a nutjob.

Not necessarily.

[rah]

We can eliminate our problems with paying fior SSI and health care simply by removing the upper limit cap on FICA and SECA.

I'm always shocked that this isn't mentioned more often. At least the half paid by the employee. They could keep the cap on the employer half so it wouldn't cause any "employment" issues.

[DinoDoc]

Why not just admit it is a welfare program and means test it?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Btw, anyone else saying "Allen West" in their mind as Adam West says his name on Family Guy?

[Hauldren Collider]

BTW just more problems with the Ryan plan. For a guy making exactly the median income he'd get a 0.1% tax cut but the top 1% would get a 12% tax cut. Let's admit that this isn't an across the board tax cut but a giant tax give away to the Republicans biggest donors and no one else.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews/#46997851

BTW the buffet rule wouldn't solve our budget problems by itself (it would only reduce the deficit by about 6%) but requiring the upper incomes to at least pay the same rate as the middle class earners is just a simple fairness issue as well as common sense. Don't let them wezil out and just pay effective rates of about 12% while the middle class pays ~30%. Making it so they MUST pay the same 30% is a good place to start.

Only a Democrat could call not taking away someone's money a "giveaway".

By the way, your effective tax rate numbers are ludicrously false.

[dannubis]

Alpie:

1. Dinner actually made it into the armed forces

2. Stop trying to defend people who obviously don't want you in their ranks. It is kind of pathetic.

[Dinner]

Only a Democrat could call not taking away someone's money a "giveaway".

By the way, your effective tax rate numbers are ludicrously false.

"Romney has estimated he will pay a 15.4 percent tax rate on income of $20.9 million."

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-paid-20-5-pct-tax-rate-2011-145921502.html

He's not the only one. 15% is on the high side for a 1%-er.

[Dr Strangelove]

I'm always shocked that this isn't mentioned more often. At least the half paid by the employee. They could keep the cap on the employer half so it wouldn't cause any "employment" issues.

How many people make more than $108,000 per year in wages or salary?