there is absolutely nothing that can be done to “embarrass” Beck, O’Reilly, Limbaugh or their ilk… they get paid to do exactly what they’re doing.

would you trust them more if they were in prison stripes?

So say the tax rate was 35%, Bush’s “tax cuts” brought them down to say 28%, once they expire, it goes back to 35%, so it’s technically a tax hike.

Fucker.

you know what would shut these cut-the-deficit-by-extending-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-only assholes up? A thorough audit of their families personal finances over the last 10 years

Irrefutable exposure of the fraudulent misrepresentations and outright lies in-service-of right-wing propaganda has done very little to shut up Andrew Breitelbart, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh. Nor has it yet visibly eroded their following among wingnut/Tea Party sheeple.

So why exactly again do you think this audit would shut up any of these tax-cuts-for-the-rich assholes, instead of merely provoking them bark even louder and more viciously? It’s like trying to “persuade” a small utterly spoiled yap-dog to shut up barking at you. Good luck without a piece of luscious meat (tax cuts or money) in your hands to feed it a treat.

We in the tax geek community have known for years that Conrad is an idiot. Glad to see that the rest of y’all are catching up.

Hopefully, the President and Congress will work to limit these “sunsets” to upper-income earners, but at this point it does not appear they will do so—it will be all or nothing.

If they’re smart, they’ll be able to do so. A few rounds of Republicans voting for tax increases for 97 to 98% of Americans and the GOP will cave. Take the GOP narrative of failing to extend unfunded tax cuts as a tax increase and throw it back at them.

Even better, propose to use the revenue gained from sunsetting the top bracket cuts to extend the Making Work Pay credit. Then it’s actually a tax cut for the vast majority of people regardless of how you spin it.

Note that the difficulty in my plan is actually getting a budget like this out of committee and onto the floor.

OK, what am I misreading?

Conrad said he’d be happy sunsetting the Bush tax cuts on the wealth after 18-24 months. But faced with a choice between the Republican plan—indefinite tax cuts on the rich—and the Democratic plan—ending tax cuts on the rich this year—Conrad was crystal clear. “[Republicans] will absolutely explode the debt,” he said.

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What that says to me is that while he would rather give the tax cuts a sunset period of 18-24 months, that may not be the choice he is given. If given the choice between indefinite extension and ending the cuts now, it sounds as though he would agree that the cuts should be ended now.

Oh my god, I feel like a dumbass right now. I honestly didn’t know this. Embarassing.

It makes me EVEN MORE FURIOUS THAT THE TAX RATES ARE AS AMAZINGLY LOW AS THEY ARE.

In the 1890s, Republicans had the White House and Congressional majorities for most of the decade, and we got Robber Barons and child labor. Liberal Republican Teddy Roosevelt was the first President of either party to institute socio-economic reforms that curbed the excesses of Big Business, but some of that was given back during the much less progressive Taft administration. It took Democrat Wilson to permanently institute many of the reforms, such as income tax, the Food and Drug Administration, etc.

In the 1920s, Republicans elected three massively-pro business, anti-regulation presidents and held huge margins in Congress. It took 8 years and a World War to fully recover.

And then there is the Republican criminal conspiracy from 1968-2008, in which Republicans held the presidency for 28 out of 40 years, and never produced a balanced budget for even ONE of those 28 budgets (while Democrats had balanced budgets/surplusses for 3 of their 12 years) and much higher job growth.

When I hear them use the words “fiscal conservative” in a sentence, it makes me want to throw my shoe.