Congress just passed a tax increase so we can have more spending. Hardly what we were promised. Nor did the Middle Class get a tax cut. While tax rates remain the same, overall taxes went up… The average Joe and Jan will see their taxes go up at least $1,000 a year and when that first pay check comes in; they will find their paycheck a little lighter. This is just a down payment for coming Obama’s expansion of the entitlement state.
If you own a small business, you will see a tax increase. If you are an investor, your taxes will go up. If you are rich, you will be taxed more and if you are member of the Middle Class, guess what, you are now being taxed more. The only good news is that capital gains taxes only went up to 20% and with Obamacare taxes added, the wealthy will pay a 23.8% rate on investments and dividends, far less than originally proposed… And when you die, those you leave behind will not be hit with as big as tax hit as it could have been. But the dead will still see their tax increase.
Of course, Senators found enough tax subsidies for their business friends. (Can someone explain to me how these Hollywood types tell the rest of us that we need higher taxes but they managed to get their tax break? I guess tax incentives do matter.)
The Wall Street Journal noted hopefully, “If there is a silver lining to this fiasco, it is that this may be the high-water mark of Mr. Obama’s redistributionist tax agenda. The President has had unusual leverage over Republicans because he just won re-election and because taxes were going to go up even if they did nothing. The GOP wanted to avoid the blame for not sparing the middle class from the higher rates. “Maybe but if there is one lesson, it is this, there will be no grand bargain with Barack Obama. Wall Street Journal summed this up by noting, “But we hope the GOP has learned, after two failed attempts, that Mr. Obama is not someone with whom it can do a “grand bargain.” Even as the Senate deal was taking shape, Mr. Obama gave a speech literally taunting Republicans for agreeing to raise tax rates. He also made clear that the price of any future spending cuts or entitlement reform will be another tax increase. He doesn’t want to reform government. He wants to expand it and destroy GOP opposition to his agenda in the bargain.”
The economy continues to limp along and may survive despite Obamanomics simply because the push from the oil and natural gas revolution and because there are enough entrepreneurs who can stay one step ahead of bureaucrats and the taxman. The key issue is how much more tax and regulation shocks the economy can survive. If nothing else, nothing coming out of Washington will lead to growth and will continue to stall the recovery.
The final lesson is that the Republicans made their deal with the devil but they have no more deals to hand Obama. From this point, it is Obama’s economy and the Republicans need not assist in any more suicidal deals that will not help the economy but could hurt the Party.
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What part, of a three part series, doesn’t the RNC/GOP understand WE The People ascribe to them? The three part series outlined:
1) Greed
2) Power
3) Corruption
4) corollary: We The Elite People of culture of corruption in ALL of Washington DC.
Please, kindly explain to We The People of the “great unwashed USofA” how this RNC/GOP tiger is going to change its stripes??? We The People are painfully, paciently awaiting this mometous about face renunciation any time soon…. crickets!!!!
John Boehner said it all…”You’re Fired!” to Constitutional Conservatives. Align yourselves with the “Haves,” not with the “Have Nots”, his message in congress.
Tea Party GoPacs, fundraisers, grass root organizing, create the Ross Perot idea but with conviction, energy and a “Git-R-Done” committment. Its the only way to trounce Washington DC’s “growing Democratic Socialists of America congressional caucus” and all its moles, minions, led by non other than Bill Ayers, Cass Sustein, Van Jones, Francis Fox Piven a nd all their Progressive New Left Activists having the ACLU as their standard bearer destroying everything American, constitutional and capitalistic. Pray. Amen. RNC/GOP a waste of time, money and effort. Teavangelicals and Tea Party…profess the”Don’t Tread on Me”mantra.