Coalition urges tax hikes, entitlement cuts to tame national debt

assholes

millions for weapons, planes etc.

They want to take away from the children and the old and buy more weapons and cause more wars.

The damned idiots don't get that every dollar that is spent on taking care of people goes around and around enriching everyone.

They only care about themselves. I never said this before but its time for it to be said: I hope they rot in hell.

They must have those programs confused with the Pentagon war machine.

...loaned the Treasury so that the mega-wealthy can have historically unprecedented low tax rates.


This is a bi-partisan frontal assault on what is left of the middle class.


Fuck you, Ed Rendell, you sell-out bastard.

I've heard Rendell on MSNBC and wondered WTF is with this asshole? He needs a big swift kick to the groin, over and over and over again. Goddamn retard rethuglican in disguise.

on MSNBC he has sounded like a dour person and really has had nothing to say eventful.

that.

Absolutely none.

It is theft, pure and simple.

bipartisan support for this further pillaging of the American people.

Tastes great.
Less filling.
Tastes great!
Less filling!
TASTES GREAT!!
LESS FILLING!!

who, famously, said, only the little people pay taxes. I think that is the Repub ultimate goal. The wealthy pay nothing and the 99% pay for everything.

Some "coalition" there. When a story has that in the first line, I don't bother to read the rest. I could write it myself from memory.

WTF? "Popular"??? As if having any retirement or
health care security is some kind of fucking FAD? .. like
Dancing with the Stars ratings or something.

Oh and interesting that this doesn't exactly say WHOs taxes
are to be raised, but I have a guess, and that would be the
99%.

that SS money eventually. They won't give up. My retirement plan? Die on the job, or take a motorcycle off the Grand Canyon.

a Flat Tax and the removal of exemptions which will raise taxes on low and moderate income people. Solution as simple as years ago when all the deficit spending by neocon/neolib types was not considered important. Stop borrowing from Social Security and remove the maximum income limit for Social Security taxes, stop the destructive foreign adventures, end corporate welfare and bring back higher tax rates on the wealthy. Higher taxes on the wealthy will not only help the deficit and budget, but will leave them with less control over the nation/world. Also, treat all income types the same (interest, dividends, salary, whatever). The problems created and the offered "solutions" are Not by accident.

It's like they know the jobs are not coming back so they go after the poor, elderly and sick.

Then they come up with some kind of simply stupid plan that completely ignores the effects of their simple math.

Cuts in any medical programs combine with ever rising medical costs to create larger groups of people who can't afford medical care. Lots of those people will simply receive treatment and be unable to ever pay their bills, then the burden of those unpaid bills get shifted to the rest through rising insurance costs (both for patients and doctors), and even larger medical fees. It's a nasty feedback loop that leaves us much worse off, and is maybe the biggest flaw of our current privatized health care system.

You take away too much from SS benefits, or raise retirement age too much, and you get more older working poor who have to rely on other government programs (increasing costs in that area) or wander the streets homeless. Then they get sick and have to receive some sort of medical care which feeds into the previous loop, or they simple die in the street from sickness or crime creating spending problems for someone else like law enforcement, or the new body government agency that will be in charge of removing all the bodies from our streets. We are already starting to have this problem as many simply can't afford to retire even with social security.

Now here's some simple math...

According to what I'd read on the Fox News website awhile back a universal health care system would likely cost us $1.5 trillion to run. And according to various reports I've seen, we currently spend around $2 trillion on health care with that number estimated to balloon up to around $4 trillion. Seems to me a universal health care system would save at minimum a half billion fairly quickly, and likely much more than that when compared with current trends.

Now when you add in the costs of the Iraq war, and the additional cost of Afghanistan by shifting focus to Iraq, and you have more government spending that was simply flushed down the toilet without even getting into general inefficient and wasteful military spending.

As for taxes, I agree that we need a simplified tax system, but I somehow doubt my idea of simplified and efficient matches theirs.

It doesn't take any particular amount of brilliance to recognize some of the biggest problems with our budget.

and still leave us with the most powerful military on the planet by far.

Granted that won't fix all our problems.

But 100 billion per year forever isn't something to scoff at.

Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with today's debt ... except as creditors.

Okay, maybe not his ring...

Anyway, as long as Republicans have sworn off raising taxes on those with the highest incomes (They're fine with cutting services and putting burdens on the rest of us), this isn't going anywhere.