You have been screwed. Again. GW "29%" Bush is still effective.

[Bucky]

You have been screwed. Again. I just thought I'd let you know. Bush's latest tax cut "stimulus" package will strip $70 billion out of federal revenues. But the average middle class household will only save about $20 in taxes. Twenty dollars. That's dinner for two at a moderately cheap restaurant.

On the other hand, if your household earns more than $1,000,000 per year, you're going to be paying about $42,000 less in taxes next year. Fourty-two thousand dollars. That's like having an extra middle class wage earner added to your household's income. The Brookings Institute didn't managed to get their analysis of the tax package on any news outlets I've read or listened to until this morning, after the fact. And the Democrats in Congress sure didn't make much of a peep about it.

So feel the screw as our vital public sector services start to shrivle more in the coming year. If it's any consolation, at least you've been not as badly screwed as your grandchildren.

[skipos]

1. Wait until we get our majorities back in 06.

Then he will be truly ineffective.

[Bucky]

2. Remember. we're talking about the Democrats. Nothing is certain.

They sure didn't make a peep about this. Maybe they're saving it for a campaign issue. But I see no indication of that. But anyway, I'll follow your advice and wait for the chickenshits to come and save us at the 13th hour.

[NewJeffCT]

As somebody on DU once said...

The Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Or, as the great Will Rogers once said more than 70 years ago - and it still applies today - "I'm not a member of an organized political party - I'm a Democrat"

[mrcheerful]

4. So what are you expecting? Some third party to save you from he evil 2?

Get real, theres only one way to get things done, make noise and stop letting or expecting others to fix things for you.

[Bucky]

9. If you re-read my post you'll see that's opposite of what I'm saying.

When I say "rescue us at the 13th hour" that means waiting and being passive is not what I think we should do.

[saltpoint]

3. John Kennedy warned that a society which cannot help the many who

are poor cannot save the few who are rich.

Tax legislation can always be rewritten. It isn't a permanent code. The legislation that produced Bush's ill-advised tax cuts are, as you say, a screw job for the time being and if left in place, for some time to come.

But legislation can un-do any existing code to the betterment of the next generation.

At the moment Mr. Bush's popularity is competitive with toothaches and hemorrhoids, and while it's true this tax bill went through, he's increasingly presiding over an administration that has been rejected by 2/3rds of American voters.

In a Democratic flip of the U.S. House, they'll be some changes made.

[iwanmycntrybak]

5. When a gov't stops listening

to the people it is no longer a democracy. I believe they are pushing America into another civil war.

[Bucky]

7. Look on the bright side. If a civil war does break out...

Bush will have tanked the economy so bad no one will be able to afford guns. Plus, maybe Americans need a civil war. House to house fighting burns calories.

[Chimichurri]

6. The middle class will pay for them in other ways.

Such as higher property tax, higher sales tax and other tax initiatives at the state level.

Someone has to pay for these tax cuts and it's been hurled upon us.

[Bucky]

8. More hidden costs. If you can't maintain health, insurance rates go up. If

if you can't keep roads well paved, transporation operation costs go up for food, retail, and commuting to work. If you can't make neighborhoods safer, crime goes up, costing losses to theft, vandalism, insurance costs, lost investment, lost education opportunities, re-direction of funds that might have gone into worker training or infrastructure building.

These tax cuts along with this budget busting war have only begun to attack our way of life and our prosperity.

[Nye Bevan]

10. The dems in congress really need to get their act together.

Sure chimpy McLeakypants is at 29% but they are letting him get pretty much everything he wants. What is their problem-- are they still worried about alienating the red states? There are only about two red states left!

Read the poll in full and you will see that the dems in congress have a 23% approval rating! :wtf:

Perhaps this would improve if they grew a spine?

[SoCalDem]

11. Yesterday they said incomes 20-35K = $9.00 savings

not even enough for lunch for two.. :grr:

[ComerPerro]

12. Thanks to BushCo, coroporations and the wealthy are now

the biggest welfare queens in the country.

I am tired of paying my hard-earned money to prop up these lazy people.

(to co-opt a phrase used by freepers who hate the working poor)

[goclark]

13. And no one is screaming about it exceopt Sapphire Blue and you~

We get what we deserve. :scared:

[ProSense]

14. All the more reason to take back Congress.

A lot of undoing to be done!