Can we stop trying to take the focus off what has been done FOR
the wealthy ( by buying our politicians and paying for elections) by blaming the poor for not paying FEDERAL INCOME taxes? For THIRTY YEARS the tax rate has been declining for the wealthy, from 70% to 35% (top tax rate). Almost a percentage point every year, no wonder they have gained so much wealth! That on top of reducing the tax rate off money made just from having money from 35% to 15%! Nearly half of the 50% that do not pay FEDERAL INCOME taxes are seniors on fixed income, and then you add in the mental and physically disabled and then the truly victimized in our society…the men and women working full time for a wage they can not thrive on. The working poor…the reason the republicans proposed the earned income tax credit... so the low wage earner would not have to pay federal income taxes! If they had to pay federal income taxes they would fall into the "poverty range" which would cost us more in services. People are acting as if American citizens do not want to make enough to have to pay federal income taxes!
We have Social Security and Medicare because that is what the American people want: to work together and provide for each other. These programs have been with us through very low unemployment rates and have no affect on peoples desire to be productive citizens. When looking at the desire to keep working and be a productive citizen one must look at the conditions of the low wage job. If working paid a livable wage and there was affordable healthcare every American would jump at the chance to become a socially respected citizen. It is only when no matter how hard you work you can not replace your
refrigerator when it breaks, even begin to save enough for retirement or get relief from your toothache…. let alone have any hope of sending your child to college do citizens give up and become unproductive.
I think Amador Country better take steps to seek lower speed limits on all its roads and highways before some computer geek working for State Farm crunches the numbers and figures out the costs... aka non-profits of selling auto insurance to Amador County residents.
The response above and its sender are ….I suspect … a software “bots” program which is a computer program that is suppose to mimic an individual whenever the program picks up the trigger words, resulting in an immediate computer response. These “bots” are used by corporations and interest groups whose profits and interests are threatened… they are set up to troll the internet and respond to anything with certain trigger words crossed with negative words. Most times these are “interest funded” and are very expensive. The “Troller” program goal is to make sure that there is an opposing view to any “pro” climate change comment made. This gives the impression that there are as many opposing voices to climate change when in reality there are not.
In America the tax take to our government to support the programs we have voted for is historically low after years of reduced rates. The biggest contributor to the deficit is the Bush Tax Cuts. Bush cut income to the government without reducing expenditures…it is no surprise we ended up in great debt. Tax rates must go back to at least what they were under the Clinton Presidency….in all tax brackets. We are not “taking more” from the rich…the rich must pay more as they are the only ones (who have more) that have benefited from this great country and its policies. Median incomes have been stagnant for years in this country and budget cuts will hit the Poorest the hardest. During the last decade many Americans have won big in this new globalize world, (and through a warped tax code) but many more Americans through no fault of their own have been greatly hurt by it. If the rich want to remain respected they will jump to do so. There used to be a deep respect for the wealthy, if this changes …well…Nothing quite so ugly as wealthy people being dragged from their mansions when the masses become angry at their lot in life. We are just ahead of Uganda in income disparity….very scary.
The 4 trillion figure first came from the deficit commission, than the President's proposal follwed by the Ryan (kill Medicare ) plan. The Presidents grand bargain also had the 4 trillion figure.....3 tillion in cuts, 1 trillion in new revenue...but not mentioned? Defense spending doubled the last ten years....the Bush tax cuts keep right on costing us, the wars keep on costing us... compounding and making the debt grow faster and faster which is why the Bush tax cuts were to automatically expire in ten years....and now tax revenue is down because of the recesseion. S & P is afraid this new group of "kill the government " corporate-protectors of the wealthy republicans is going to be able to force the continuation of the Bush tax cuts......S & P takes no position on the mix of tax cuts and new revenues....but notice they mention both!
Appalling that Rep. McClintock would go to such pains to warp in such a partisan fashion what S&P said. S & P takes no position on how much we should cut or how much in revenues we need to raise! __S & P lowered our long term rating because of the prolonged debate over raising our debit ceiling and it indicated an inability to contain spending, especially on entitlements and on reaching an agreement on raising revenues. S & P has no idea as to how much in the President’s grand bargain was in entitlement cuts.__S & P exact words are “The political brinkmanship of the recent months highlights what we see as America’s governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective and less predictable than we previously believed. The stationary debt ceiling and threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate of fiscal policy”. S & P goes on to say that nothing economically has changed for the USA. It goes on to say the agreement we ended up with fell short. Remember what we ended up with had no new revenues. For Mr. McClintock to simplify this to we just did not cut enough is outrageous and irresponsible. __
Bullheaded ideology from someone who calls himself libsarenuts? Instead of attacking me personally, tell me which point was factually incorrect? I listed the actions and legislative attempts of this congress.
Your judgments that I am not as patriotic as you and do not believe in working hard to get ahead and stating that I pity myself while implying that I have been left behind and am having trouble swallowing it…. because I do not agree with you and this congress’s priorities is the only scary thing occurring.
You assume that because I do not agree with privatizing SS and shopping with coupons that I do not want hard changes to entitlement programs, I do, but balanced with the pulling in of foreign aid, military spending, closing loopholes and subsidies and establishing a more fair tax code that does not allow millionaires and billionaires and corporations to pay a lower tax rate then me, because I create jobs as well…every time I go shopping. Yes, my life would be better with Medicare and my very hard earned SS, but with or with out them you will not see me in a line for free medical care or food. I will be the one with a cocktail in hand enjoying the view from my deck.
Just because facts matter; during 2003 when Bush’s big unpaid for prescription drug bill giveaway was passed, the congressional makeup was; a republican majority Senate… 51 Republican / 48 Democrats, a Republican majority House…229 Republican / 205 Democrats. The bill was defeated many times but the vote was held open by previously unheard of lengths of time by the Republican Majority in order to have time to persuade a couple of republicans to change their minds, finally passing the Republican held majority House 220-215 on November 22 @5:50AM, then passing the Republican held majority Senate on November 25 by a 54-44 vote.
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The Williams Act is used to pay low taxes for ten years or increments of ten years while waiting for property to increase in value, then selling it. Paying lower taxes because you want to keep doing what you “like to do” is taxpayer subsidizing of a lifestyle choice and cost of beef. If you need a tax break on property to be profitable then your business/way of life is not sustainable. Applying the Williamson Act to multiple separate large pieces of land, while only having to show an attempt or modest profit agriculturally sounds like a great way to work at other jobs or having other business and dabble in part-time cattle ranching to get the tax break until the land value goes up. Otherwise, buy with the intent of making a profit large enough to pay the same property taxes rates the rest of us pay. Free Market Style. There in lies the problem…if they cut my steel job because we won’t subsidize the American steel industry… if they cut my home mortgage deduction (a subsidy)…...then we can’t subsidize your way of life. One can’t rail against big bad government then justify the government programs one just happens to benefit from.
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