Obama calls on Congress to pass a 1 year extension of the Bush tax cuts for people earning less than - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;36705347]*cough,* *cough,* Affordable Care act being gutted by the GOP because it helped people, *cough.*[/QUOTE] are you retarded?

it's probably going to end up being extended for $1 million and under incomes, but it's better than nothing.

[QUOTE=yawmwen;36700224] It also doesn't seem to raise taxes at all. [/QUOTE] Well yeah, republican [editline]11th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Madman_Andre;36705347]*cough,* *cough,* Affordable Care act being gutted by the GOP because it helped people, *cough.*[/QUOTE] Nonsense. They gutted it because it was Obama's idea.

I guess he has to make do. Politics is about compromising. In the end he did remove the tax cuts for everyone beyond the $250.000 so he still achieved something.

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;36705347]*cough,* *cough,* Affordable Care act being gutted by the GOP because it helped people, *cough.*[/QUOTE] I wonder if you even know anything about politics or if you just spew shit out of your mouth for fun? By your pathetic strawman attempts, you proved my point. You must have some twisted view of republicans that we are just a bunch of rich people who want nothing to do with anyone because we're rich! [QUOTE=thisispain;36712679]oh i'm sorry do we live in some alternate universe where the Republicans did not pledge to veto everything Obama proposed?[/QUOTE] You, you are just misinformed. Republicans don't want Obama's healthcare because it's costly, by over a trillion dollars. Romney is going to create a healthcare free market, with limited government regulation, whose sole purpose is to create a level playing field for individual states. [QUOTE=Lambeth;36718111]Nonsense. They gutted it because it was Obama's idea.[/QUOTE] If you truly believe that, you are an idiot. Please get informed.

Anything over $100,000 is a bit much to have tax cuts that they didn't have before, really, but getting rid of them for those who make a quarter million or more is a good thing either way

[QUOTE=QuikKill;36720156] You, you are just misinformed. Republicans don't want Obama's healthcare because it's costly, by over a trillion dollars. Romney is going to create a healthcare free market, with limited government regulation, whose sole purpose is to create a level playing field for individual states.[/QUOTE] Yeah it has a price tag of a trillion dollars, but that's broken up over ten years. The CBO actually predicted that it would reduce the deficit [QUOTE]The legislation will have a number of effects on the federal budget—including added spending to subsidize the purchase of health insurance and increased outlays for Medicaid, as well as reductions in outlays for Medicare and added revenues from taxes, fees, and penalties. On net, CBO and JCT’s latest comprehensive estimate is that the effects of the two laws on direct spending and revenues related to health care will reduce federal deficits by $210 billion over the 2012–2021 period (see Table 1). [/QUOTE] [url=http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12119/03-30-healthcarelegislation.pdf]Source[/url] Defense spending, incidentally, eats up around a trillion a year.

[QUOTE=Lambeth;36727385]Yeah it has a price tag of a trillion dollars, but that's broken up over ten years. The CBO actually predicted that it would reduce the deficit [url=http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12119/03-30-healthcarelegislation.pdf]Source[/url] Defense spending, incidentally, eats up around a trillion a year.[/QUOTE] That doesn't change the fact that it is a mass amount of spending. And we are talking about healthcare, not defense spending, that's a whole new debate/animal.

It's a large amount of spending spread apart over a long time. I only mentioned the defense spending so there was a frame of reference.