Reply #6: "We can't allow taxes to go up on our poor and middle class citizens or there will be suffering"

[TheKentuckian]

Meanwhile, back in reality we look at the distribution of the so called middle class tax relief and we find for most folks we are talking 10-20 bucks a week and pretending it will be an effective stimulus and ignoring the reality that the serious bulk of this debt is a game to payoff the top 20% or so at the long term expense of the capability of government, increased poverty, destruction of incentive to invest, and continuing the disparity that helps fuel this whole paradigm.

Of all the things we need this level of spending for and you come with some bullshit tax cuts selling them fucking verbatim to how they were sold by the failed moneychanging crooks the last time.


IT DOESN'T WORK!!! How is that for pragmatism? If something fucking stupid doesn't work I will be hardliner against it when in a desperate game of Groundhog's Day, my allies try the same shit in a vain effort to "get something done".
It is possible to do the wrong thing. That should get special credence when it is the same solution you just gave the old college try to and failed miserably just prior to your next stab at it.

Telling the truth would unravel much of the upper hand the Republicans can seem to have. Trying to make sure the upperclass suburbanites had a chance to get their beaks wet has made the entire policy essentially bullshit. Most Americans will get a token to bribe them into supporting shrink the pig against their interest.

A simple appeal to greed.