This is bullshit. There is no reason in the world Obama needs to compromise with Republicans, yet he is compromising with Republicans. It’s like health care all over again, but worse.
With health care, there was a significant chance that we would get nothing at all, which is what Hillary Clinton got during her husband’s administration, and it hurt her political reputation terribly. She might be president today if she’d managed to get some version of universal health care through. 
So, Obama compromised a bit more and got enough that Joe Biden could call it a “big fucking deal” (and I don’t believe for a second that was a slip, that he thought the mike was off – I suspect that a lot of Uncle Joe’s gaffes aren’t gaffes at all).
This is worse because there is no need in the world for Obama to compromise. All he needs to do is nothing and on January 1st, taxes go up, some stuff gets cut, and the economy gets the fix (added revenue, reduced expenses) that it needs. Of course, some people get pinched a bit, but not nearly as bad as they’ll get hurt in any compromise that involves Republicans.
But, Obama has signaled that he would be willing to keep the tax breaks for those making over $250,000 but less than $400,000. Also, he’d be willing to make cuts to Social Security, which is just totally wrong. The reason it’s called an entitlement is because people are entitled to it. It comes out of your paycheck during your working life and your supposed to get it back.
But, it’s the $250,000 figure I want to talk about. First of all, anybody making 250 grand a year is rich. Bear in mind, we’re talking about annual income, not net worth. I’ve never had that much money in my life, much less made anywhere close to it in a year. And I live very comfortably.
Also, we’re talking annual income after expenses. You might make a million dollars a year, but if you invest everything over $250,000 of it back into your business, so you’ll make more money next year, then you’ll pay the lower tax rate.
3rd, we’re only talking about letting their taxes go back up to what they were in the Clinton years. We’re not actually talking about raising their taxes, just undoing some of the damage that Bush did. Damage that very much needs to be undone.
4th, this argument that lower taxes stimulate the economy is bullshit. Higher taxes stimulate the economy, because rich people will reinvest the money to avoid paying the taxes.
We know for a fact that it doesn’t work, because it hasn’t worked.
The thing that really bothers me, though, is that Obama is so willing to compromise and there’s absolutely no need for it. Most people making less than $250,000 a year have no objection to people making more than $250,000 a year paying higher taxes. And that is the vast majority of the population.
If we go over this misnamed “fiscal cliff” Obama, and the rest of the country, wins.
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You’re right: it’s Obama’s last term, so he should be taking the old white bastards out to the woodshed for some justice. We have an awful system, one which was created by the rich white guys, for the rich white guys and of the rich white guys. Fortunately these rich fucks don’t/can’t breed much, so it’s a waiting game. In about 50 years whites will no longer be the majority in America. Get enough ethnic diversity in the Supreme Court and maybe we can jump these privileged rat bastards and take their lunch money. ‘But Melvis, you are a white man!’ Only on the outside, baby.
-Melvis
I have to believe they all (both sides) have some long term agenda around Social Security, they are colluding but not telling us about it. It’s complete baloney that they should cut it at all. It stands on it’s own and it’s solvent.