how to avoid raising taxes on the middle class or cutting programs the poor depend on

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http://www.nationofchange.org/how-avoid-raising-taxes-middle-class-or-cutting-programs-middle-and-poor-depend-1359124921


Brace yourself. In coming weeks you’ll hear there’s no serious alternative to cutting Social Security and Medicare, raising taxes on middle class, and decimating what’s left of the federal government’s discretionary spending on everything from education and job training to highways and basic research.

“We” must make these sacrifices, it will be said, in order to deal with our mushrooming budget deficit and cumulative debt.

But most of the people who are making this argument are very wealthy or are sponsored by the very wealthy: Wall Street moguls like Pete Peterson and his “Fix the Debt” brigade, the Business Roundtable, well-appointed think tanks and policy centers along the Potomac, members of the Simpson-Bowles commission.

These regressive sentiments are packaged in a mythology that Americans have been living beyond our means: We’ve been unwilling to pay for what we want government to do for us, and we are now reaching the day of reckoning.

[Wounded Bear]

1. "In coming weeks?"

Where's this guy been? I've been hearing this shit for years. It's Republican Talking Points 101. The whole first semester is simmering in it.

[MrYikes]

2. so we need to get ready.

we MUST install a 65% estate tax, NOW. AND, in that tax bill install the wording that the tax is also applied when you become a citizen of another country.

That may sound off topic, but it is not.

We have carried the load for the past 40 years while the 1% have lived their dream. Now we are ready to make adjustments so as to save our country and the 1% are planning and are willing to vacate this country. We will happily allow them to leave, but the sweat of our brows must remain here.

The debt is of course their way of maintaining control over us. They pile on the debt and then point fingers at us to fix it. We will fix it....but not now. In this chess game we must think several moves ahead.