News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes.

[babsbunny]

GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block
Some Republicans are now saying the payroll tax break should expire

By CHARLES BABINGTON
updated 1 hour 40 minutes ago

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44218846/ns/politics/#.TlEjrV1ENaU

WASHINGTON — News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes.

Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to prevent a payroll tax increase on virtually every wage-earner starting Jan. 1, right?

Apparently not.

Many of the same Republicans who fought hammer-and-tong to keep the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts from expiring on schedule are now saying a different "temporary" tax cut should end as planned. By their own definition, that amounts to a tax increase.

The tax break extension they oppose is sought by President Barack Obama. Unlike proposed changes in the income tax, this policy helps the 46 percent of all Americans who owe no federal income taxes but who pay a "payroll tax" on practically every dime they earn.

[Shandris]

1. Typical.

I'm so sick of hearing about the 'half who pay NOOOOOOOOO income taxes at all!!!'. These fuckers are welcome to come change places with me. Oddly enough, that line shuts them up every. single. time.

[dkf]

2. Social security is the most regressive tax we have. That is why Reagan loved raising it.