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In reply to the discussion: Congressman DeFazio: If we do nothing, seniors are safe and Lloyd Blankfein's taxes go up! [View all]humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)Yep I did my calculations 50K combined family of four and $2200 tax hit plus as many here keep suddenly forgetting the payroll tax exemption is being ended so that is another $800 oh and for us people with kids we have to feed our child tax credits drop by $500 per kid so ther is another $1000 so I am up to a $4000 hit now not to mention that my employer is telling us that in order for the medical plan to meet the new healthcare guidelines we may all have to fork over more money out of our checks so I am potentially facing a 5-6K hit that is insane How the hell am I going to manage $600 per month more to pay the government? How, I make too much to go on subsitance, I don't qualify for food stamps, I don't even qualify for free cell phones, I don't qualify for shit...
No one on this forum should be supporting this crap, I am seriously concerned that many are, I don't understand the end game.
Next point no deal on the cliff means that the unemployment benefits which were extended for 99 weeks will be cutoff so those people get hurt the worst by all these pro going over the cliff respondents however, people that need help still have outs, if they can't find work they qualify for many federal and state aid programs and none of those are getting cut as of now. So you tell me who get's hurt the most by this insane crap that Democrats are defending going over the cliff?