NP - Sign Ant- Obama-GOP Tax Cut Petition

[Thomas Beshear]

I'll bite. Americans are undertaxed -- considering what they want from Uncle 
Sugar but don't want to pay for. I would prefer to see the rates go back to 
what they were under Clinton. That's political suicide in the current 
climate, and that's one of many reasons I'm not a politician.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: NP - Sign Ant- Obama-GOP Tax Cut Petition


> am I just a contrarian?  No, but...
>
> may I point out that everybody's talking about the 700 billion lost to
> the tax coffers by keeping tax cuts for the wealthy, however I read
> somewhere that the tax cuts for the non-wealthy are estimated to cost
> 3 trill over the same ensuing period of time
>
> I volunteer to give up my poverty-stricken tax cut in the interests of
> a solvent republic.
> Will I miss the 3 bucks a week?
>
> surprised nobody else is proposing that.  "ask not what your country"
> and all that...
> I mean, as liberals we should not (or at least, not *only*) be trying
> to soak the rich, we should be glad to pay taxes as "the price we pay
> for civilization"
>
> as liberals wtf are we even excited about a tax cut for?  is the
> resistance to rescinding the middle class tax cut a sign that we would
> be just as intransigent and conscienceless and devoid of public spirit
> as those who have gotten to the threshold of wealth...
>
> thcrew Bush and his frikken tax cuts then and now!