Republicans for Tax Hikes Republicans have finally found a group they want to tax: poor people.

[EV_Ares]

It's not news when Jon Huntsman criticizes fellow Republicans. It's news when he agrees with them. On Sunday, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Huntsman found himself in a virtual love-in with Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann over, of all things, taxes. The paper asked Huntsman if "the half of American households no longer paying income tax—mainly working poor families and seniors—should be brought onto the income tax rolls."

He agreed, crediting the GOP's current front-runner for vice president, Sen. Marco Rubio, with the insight that "we don't have enough people paying taxes in this country."

The Journal called this position the "new GOP orthodoxy," which it is. When he announced his presidential bid two weeks ago, Perry told a room of conservative activists and bloggers that "we're dismayed at the injustice that nearly half of all Americans don't even pay any income tax." He was following on Bachmann, who'd just told the South Carolina Christian Chamber of Commerce the very same thing.

Link to entire Slate article: http://slate.me/nXOnnh

My comment:-Yet, Exxon who makes over $30 billion in profits & pays nothing in taxes they don't want to touch. WTF is it going to take to wake up the American people no matter where your ideology is or whatever party. Are we that chained to the hip of any party. These people have taken the poor & middle class to the cleaners since Reagan. Wake up America.

[fascisthunter]

1. Hahahaha.. f*cking sick puppies

hey poor republicans, DO YOU GET IT, YET!?!?!?!?!

[brewens]

2. Reminds me of our Governor in Idaho several years back. Phil

Batt said one time he would pay for eliminating the "marriage tax penalty" by raising taxes on single people. I like to think my scathing email to him might have been one of the reasons he back the f#*k off that immediately!

My main point was asking him why single people? Could it be because you feel we have more disposable income and can afford to pay higher taxes? If that's why then why not raise taxes on wealthy people?

Then I blasted him about the idea that there even was a "marriage tax penalty" in the first place. Back then at my income level I did my own taxes. I could see right in the tax table that if I were married, I'd pay less taxes. Every year. There was no "marriage tax penalty", it was a single tax penalty and still is.

[OHdem10]

3. Remember they have been saying over and over--50% of Americans

do no not pay taxes. They were paving the way for
the way for raising taxes on the lower end of the
economic scale.

OMG, do not raise taxes on the Rich but rather go
after the poor.

Why does this remind me of the era of King Henry, VIII