You guys slay me.

It isn't a tax increase. It's a tax cut for the vast majority of Americans.

Apart from all that, how many here remember that same exact promise of a middle class tax cut from Clinton? How did that work out for you? Heh.

Excuse me.... (snicker) Isn't demanding a tax cut funded by a tax increase on someone else, "getting away with stuff"? Aside from that, people keep telling me I get all sorts of tax loopholes, but are never able to point them out. Why is that?

In this particular case, I think Obama is advocating trying to provide some stimulus to the retail economy by giving the lower classes money to spend--maybe on gasoline. And he going to take it from the wealthy classes that won't be hurt very much when it happens--they're they guys that made all the dough going from boom to bust. (You know how Romney made HIS 300 million? He was a vulture.) And this is going to help out the overall economy, rather than sweeten the bank account of the rich, which will be sweetened anyway when the economic tide raises all boats. Something Republicans just can't understand. They think its all about being miserly and gripping every last buck. They never grasp that when the common people have wages to spend, they spend it on the commodities that make the economy go round.

I'm sorry C4 but this is just all time dumb. Accumulating capital is how hospitals are built, homes erected, charitable foundations are funded, and universities founded. Without capital accumulation you would not have had a job as an engineer, or a railroad to drive upon.
It's sloppy thinking like this that allows idiots advocating class envy, to ruin economies.

You are not distinguishing between institutions raising captital to build enterprises, verus private individuals accumulating capital for what, exactly--in many cases rich individuals accumulte more money than they can ever spend in a lifetime. They eat as well as they can eat. Travel first class. Drive the fineest cars. Live in mansions. Float on yachts. Great. But then, they still have so much money they don't know what to do with it. So they give it to their cats. Or to the Mormon church. Or to some museum or university. They could not take it with them. They died. But while they lived--could they have used some of their money to alleviate just a little of the suffering of people who were not as lucky, or not as lucky to be as smart? You think an aristocracy is better? Like with the Bushes, leave all that money to the heirs? Let them grow fat and indolent? What is the point of devoting your life to accumulating billions and billions of dollars, and then complaining about paying some little tax that lets a poor kid get dental care? Have you never read 'A Christmas Carol'. Is it all I, Me, and Mine with you?

I don't mean to whine, but it's time for you to give back that tax cut you were given for no reason, and pay for this war that your beloved George W. Bush started. It's called responsibility. We're throwing bull$hit thinkers like you and Grover Norquist out of Washington. Have a nice trip. (PS - Your dog is cool. But your ideas are a pile of dog crap on the front lawn of America.)