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In reply to the discussion: Just watch a story on the CBS Nightly News about a family making $64,000 -&100,000 being so upset [View all]Springslips
(533 posts)26. Well they will for a little bit
If we go over the cliff.
Of course, we can then cut middle class taxes and make it retro-active.
Did CBS make this distinction clear on the show? If not, they suck at journalism.
PS: Their first world problems give me a bad taste too. Even if their taxes go up, this would be a good lesson for the children to make choices: piano lessons or less toys for Christmas? Believe it or not, sacrificing one thing, say extra toys, will make piano lessons more valuable. Would also do a lot to stifle narcissism and entitlement.
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Just watch a story on the CBS Nightly News about a family making $64,000 -&100,000 being so upset [View all]
Lady Freedom Returns
Dec 2012
OP
I was going to say the same thing. They are just yapping because they can. Dumb people
southernyankeebelle
Dec 2012
#15
I believe the original intent of the poster was to cite excess and the complaint of losing it.
Selatius
Dec 2012
#7
On The Courteous Assumption, Ma'am, You Are Not Just Being deliberately Obtuse Here
The Magistrate
Dec 2012
#31
Is your assumption is that they are whining and not just explaining what the tax cut means to them?
gollygee
Dec 2012
#38
Short Of A Certain Threshold Of Real Suffering, Ma'am, All Complaint is Just Whining....
The Magistrate
Dec 2012
#41
I like to call it propaganda by omission. You report one fact and leave out several others.
Selatius
Dec 2012
#14
I believe that there exists a family that is so poor they are dying of starvation.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2012
#33
They haven't had their taxes increase, at least not those originating at the Federal level. nt
Codeine
Dec 2012
#11
The OP strikes me as peddling a red-herring to spread a false meme that middle-class taxes will rise
leveymg
Dec 2012
#27
think I found the article, was the only recent google with CBS and piano words in it.
Sunlei
Dec 2012
#30
fox lies is on 'free TV' too, those who do not have cable are a huge propaganda target.
Sunlei
Dec 2012
#71
Its the media trying to scare the middle class into allowing the cuts for the top 2%
JoePhilly
Dec 2012
#40