The wealthy to the GOP: "Tax us more."

[Ben Kenobi]

There are two problems here, DD: overspending in defense, and insufficient revenue.

Cut entitlements and 3/4ths of the deficit problem is eliminated.

[MrFun]

Cut entitlements and 3/4ths of the deficit problem is eliminated.

I'd rather not degrade the middle class anymore than it already has been, and not increase our poverty rate and cruelly cut off the working poor.

[MrFun]

The GOP has for weeks now offered to tax wealthy folks more, and in fact raising more revenue from the top 2% then Obama was demanding.

The blind horses have finally found the fvckin' trough.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'd rather not degrade the middle class anymore than it already has been, and not increase our poverty rate and cruelly cut off the working poor.

So, IOW, you really don't care about cutting the deficit and putting the US on a firm fiscal footing. Default will do all of these things, btw.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

The blind horses have finally found the fvckin' trough.

Doesn't matter we're going over the cliff anyway per Obama's desire.

[Ben Kenobi]

Going over the fiscal cliff. Bring it on, Obama.

[giblets]

We can get on a "firm fiscal footing" if the Democrats and Republicans simply do nothing and let the Bush tax cuts expire + sequestration cuts kick in.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Its what Obama really wants. Gets tax rates on everyone to go up. Cuts in defense. Gets to blame all the pain on the GOP when he is the one pushing it.

[giblets]

Its what Obama really wants. Gets tax rates on everyone to go up. Cuts in defense. Gets to blame all the pain on the GOP when he is the one pushing it.

Win-win-win.

[DinoDoc]

Is it time for the GOP to consider repealing the Eisenhower tax cut for the movie industry and reinstate a 20% excise tax on movie theaters' gross revenues that had been imposed at the end of World War II as a deficit-cutting measure? That is the industry that constantly begs for more taxes after all.

[MrFun]

I'm a partisan tool for Republicans.

Yeah, we get it.

[giblets]

Is it time for the GOP to consider repealing the Eisenhower tax cut for the movie industry and reinstate a 20% excise tax on movie theaters' gross revenues that had been imposed at the end of World War II as a deficit-cutting measure? That is the industry that constantly begs for more taxes after all.

Some of the industry's employees surely support higher taxes, but I don't think the MPAA is lobbying for tax hikes.

[Felch]

Sort of like how some wealthy Americans support higher taxes, but the GOP (the party that represents rich folks) is against it?

[DaShi]

I'm a partisan tool for Republicans.

QFT

[DinoDoc]

Some of the industry's employees surely support higher taxes, but I don't think the MPAA is lobbying for tax hikes.

The entertainment industry is a major source of Democratic contributions and spread-the-wealth rhetoric, even as they prosper based on this tax cut, and numerous other bits of favorable treatment scattered throughout the Internal Revenue Code. It's time for a change given the current fiscal climate.