cuts to medicare/social security in exchange for tax increases

This would be a compromise:
1) pass a balanced budget amendment
2) remove loopholes in current tax system where every citizen pays atleast 5% of their salary regardless of income thus everyone will have skin in the game
3) no deductions at all for any business or person
4) lower overall rates to make up for no deductions so that middle class America pays no more than 10%
would that work?

 

The well isn't going to get dry, but when it does we'll worry about it then. As for now, the answer isn't to throw the elderly and indigent on the street and remove to social programs that keep us from becoming a 3rd World Country.

 

Since you're so self-righteous, give more of your paycheck back to the government. Gotta start somewhere, why not with you? How about you set the example.

 

I'm not a billionaire and I do pay taxes, and if my taxes are raised i'm going to pay them too. I am not a "job creator" (even though I have hired over 600 people this year alone, but i did not create those jobs) but then again neither are they, we have been told that they are, over and over and over again, but we all know that just isn't true.

 

So who does create jobs in your mind?

 

Obama, but he'll need another trillion or so for next year's jobs.

 

Small Business owners making less than 250K a year.

 

Everything's so phukd up now that no one is creating jobs.

 

Oh really? You are sadly mistaken if you think Obama's administration is inspiring me to create some jobs. He has threatened to increase the cap on SS Taxes. On someone making 250k/year, that's 15 grand a year out of their pocket. I don't know that he'll do it but crap like that is not inspiring small business owners. On top of that, he and congress have created an air of such uncertainty that it's tough to try to expand your business right now.

The point is, if those are the people you think are creating jobs (which they are), then you need to understand Obama's positions/actions and how they affect them. And this isn't totally an indictment on him. It's congress and every other mfer in DC.

 

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if taxes on the wealthiest Americans, or as you all like to call them "job creators" have been lower the last 10 years than in the last 50, then where are all the jobs? When are you all going to just admit that voodoo economics are complete bullsh!t, and do not work.