Well, I don’t use this blog for serious things usually, but I copied and pasted a mass letter I received below explaining what the Obama tax cuts have been, including a calculator that shows how much it saved you last year and how much more you will have to pay. Republican, Democrat, and Other Party families should all appreciate this….There doesn’t seem there should be any political division, but rather a RICH against the MIDDLE CLASS division (disguised as a republican verses democrat issue, which it shouldn’t be, but that’s a great brainwashing way for the struggling republican families to vote in the people who are keeping them poor.)
I don’t understand why, if the Republicans joined Norquist’s cult and said they won’t raise taxes, why is it okay now? I guess it’s okay to do anything that will make the president look bad….and where is Grover Norquist in this? Why is he not threatening the Republicans they will lose their posts this time? Because it works in his favor to make even more money from the Republican lobbyists and big business, etc. when Republican law prevails. The same laws that allowed the banking system to collapse in the first place. Real bad guy that dude. And apparently very two-faced. Well probably, there’s more faces to him like one of those dice pieces in the board games that freak me out, because I’m a meek church goer, and I avoid the black “magics.”
So this conservative lady (me) is also learning, it’s good to be patriotic and support your country and the people of your country, UNLESS you are a millionaire or better, then there’s no need and it really is an inconvenience for these billionaires to pay a fair tax and take one less trip, so another less fortunate family can buy vegetables this year. AND SHAME ON CONGRESS FOR BREAKING (if they do). If you, as a congress person, had voted for soldiers to go over and fight in other countries, you (the politician who is at least pretending to fight for your country) should only be allowed the same breaks as those soldiers who you sent overseas. When is that break even? Every two years? I’ll ask my cousin. Certainly this is not too much to ask of a politician who is “fighting for the American people”–to sit thinking in his plush office where his offspring (who, by the way, are not at war, with exception to a few) can visit; to sit in that cozy office and serve the same amount of time before breaking as an endangered soldier spends in hostile, life-threatening conditions. Good God–what a joke this congress is. When republican John Boehner said a few years ago that the republican politicians would focus the next four years on getting the president out of office, he was being extremely honest because the republican party has not done anything else beside that…except wasted our time and money trying to get the president out of office instead of working together to help the very people who voted for these republicans. HERE’S THE LETTER THAT WAS SENT OUT WITH THE HANDY CALCULATOR:
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| Mikelle –
In case you missed it — yesterday Congress voted on a bill that gave them two simple choices: A) Let President Obama’s payroll tax cut expire, raising a typical family’s taxes by more than $1,000 next year, or B) Extend and expand the tax cut, helping 160 million people and letting that same family keep $1,500. Click here to find out what it does for you. The payroll tax cut would be paid for by requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay a little more. But some in Congress think millionaires and billionaires should get to keep paying the already-low rate they get, thanks to the Bush tax cuts. This one isn’t complicated. And for a party whose leaders and candidates have pledged not to support any tax hike ever, taking money out of the pockets of middle-class families should have been unacceptable. But almost every Republican in the Senate went with option A — blocking President Obama’s proposal, and refusing to make the wealthiest among us contribute their fair share to help struggling families and strengthen the economy. So it’s clear that when they say no tax hikes, they really mean millionaires and billionaires shouldn’t pay more, ever — even if that means your taxes go up. We’re not letting this one go until Congress reverses course and does the right thing. And one way to spread the word is to make sure you know exactly how the Obama tax cuts affect you and your family. We’ve created a new Obama tax cut calculator – use it to find out how much money Republicans in Congress want to take from you, then share it with everyone you know so they can find out, too. In these last few weeks alone, we’ve seen Congress fail to act over and over again. First by refusing to keep teachers, firefighters, and cops on the job and to hire more of them, and now by refusing to protect a middle-class tax cut that makes a real difference for millions of American families. And the Republican presidential candidates are in lock step with the GOP leaders in Congress on this. Just last week, Mitt Romney said he’s “not looking to put money in people’s pockets” and backed his Congressional counterparts. Try the calculator to see what’s at stake for your paycheck, and please share it with anyone you think needs to see it: http://my.barackobama.com/Tax-Calculator Thanks, James James Kvaal |
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