posted February 14, 2012 02:43 PM            

the views of the writer are not necessarily my own. the news as fact is interesting though!

seems the republicans will not create a circus over the payroll tax this month? some cynics seem to think it might be election-year expediency.

what i still don't understand is how anyone gets away with arguing that PAYROLL tax (social security contributions) influence the DEFICIT in any way shape or form?

the money is for SSI and not for the general coffers. who are they trying to kid?

posted February 14, 2012 08:59 PM            

i would say "no money being paid in" to the pot is a little over the top, considering we are talking two whole percentage points...and again, despite high unemployment, more people paying into the pot than ever before. so i would call the exaggerations just that, worry-mongering.

i remember not long ago the big panic was that the boomers didn't have enough children to make the pot big enough. there's always some paranoia being pushed about SSI isn't there? meanwhile it is plenty healthy for some years to come and honestly, if we have not recovered from the recession in 20 years it won't matter much will it??

and as someone whose father earned a lot of money OVER the SSI contribution level, but spent it all, i think a higher cut off point would be a reasonable offset.

posted February 14, 2012 09:28 PM            

or is it to keep in the good books of mr norquist, the rothschild of our country and time? who doesn't care who is president because he reckons he is already running the country?

posted February 15, 2012 12:24 AM            

NO ONE is paying payroll taxes now and if the payroll tax holiday is extended, NO ONE will be paying payroll taxes for another year...including Social Security taxes and taxes to fund Medicare.

posted February 15, 2012 05:51 PM            

but please, tell me once again, why the billionaires can't afford to pay 3% more on their INCOME OVER a million but it's okay for the rest of us to cough up for the good of all?

besides which that 2% will be pretty much ALL spent...on things that enrich those richest. so it's an indirect gift to the rich who congress and NORQUIST still say can't stand the pressure.

some of them. the voices are growing more and louder from the rich people who understand that squeezing the middle class and poor will eventually mean ... NO CUSTOMERS! (ie, no MONEY)

posted February 16, 2012 11:10 AM            

In America...though not in the Socialist mecca of Europe...it none of our Socialist's business what the rich can afford...or how the rich spend their own money.

It's amazing that able bodied leftists...too lazy or corrupt to work and pay their own way in life, buy into the Marxist class warfare rhetoric which says...the government should steal the fruits of the labor of productive citizens in our society and spend it on giving goodies to others..meaning them..from the public treasury. Straight Marxist bullshiiit!

posted February 16, 2012 01:30 PM            

whatever you think the "main point" is, jwhop, i started this thread and i have to say i think YOU are doing your best to derail it and turn it into a diatribe on socialism, with the help of your pancho sanchez here.

the point of the thread is that the republicans have made an abrupt about face for expediency's sake with an election a few months ahead on their horizon. not exactly cutting edge observation, since it has been apparent for years that they have only one thing in mind, getting their mitts in stranglehold position on washington.