Why is this Biggest Tax Increase In History hoopla just another con lie?

Question

This lie claims a tax increase is coming because of the dems - nothing could be further from the truth. The people claiming this are "assuming" the tax cuts put in by the cons are permanent - when they are actually going to expire in 2010 by the cons own design. They then claim the dems are causing the tax "increase" by simply letting the tax cuts expire. It's the lowest sort of chicanery any politician could dream up. Leave it to the cons desperate for something, ANYTHING, no matter how crooked and deceitful to hurl at the dems.

http://www.cbpp.org/3-28-07tax2.htm

Answer 1

if it is the biggest tax increase in history, it was on the heels of the biggest tax decrease and budget shortfall in history. I would like to see a Con-servative support the budget mess made by this Admin and the last few Republican Congresses. Republicans can try to spin the largest budget deficit in history...and a lot of people will ignore facts so they can bend their personal views to accept the need because of their Conservative politics...but the biggest issue is the mountainous debt created by Republicans. Just google US budget and you'll find the truth

Answer 2

If the tax cuts are revoked then taxes will go up. In my world this is called a tax increase. They aren't staying the same or going down then what other way could they be moving?

The tax system should be changed to a flat tax that is applied equally to everyone with Constitutional limits on how much the government can increase it.

Our tax burden is too high and the federal government is doing too much and are not staying in the realm of what the Constitution explicitly grants it powers to do.

The current tax system is nothing more than a redisribution of wealth from the most productive in our society to the least productive. Stealing from one family to give to another.
People should pay for the government they use and nothing more.

Taxing someone else does not help you (unless your one of the people getting a government handout or subsidy). Someone else having more than you does not hurt you.

The government doing with less is a good thing. The government should encourage productivity and investment and not tax it.

This is suppose to be a free country where we all the opportunity to achieve our dreams without government interference. The government is suppose to keep us safe and provide infrastructure and other basic services and then get out of our way.

Answer 3

What's the practical difference to me, Argyle? Zero.

If the Democrats do not extend the tax cuts, I will pay more taxes.

My paying MORE taxes, once again, will be because the Democrats decided to NOT renew the Republicans tax cuts.

You're splitting hairs, but the effect is exactly what they are saying: If the Democrats control Congress, we will pay more taxes than we have been paying for the last 4 years.

Whether that is by voting FOR new taxes, or by not extending previous tax cuts, the effect on me, because of the Democrats, will be exactly the same.

I will pay more taxes. Everyone will.

Answer 4

George W. Bush - with the blessing of a Republican congress - has been responsible for the largest tax increase in U.S. history, a rise of more than one trillion dollars to the national debt in the past year and a half. This debt is a tax just as certainly as a rise in your personal income tax; it’s just put on the backs of future taxpayers including yourself.
Only the American taxpayer is responsible for paying off any part of the national debt.

How can anyone say they are for family and nation while they are passing on their debt for their own children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to pay - with interest - on top of the debt they personally accumulate during their time.

Is the dollar in your pocket today worth the 3 or 4 dollars it will cost you, your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren to pay off tomorrow?

*If you read into the bill and not just listen to an extremest from either side, the big raise in taxes is towards big business while spending more towards local communities and government humanitarian programs ... Seems your tax dollar will be spend more close to your personal home/community instead of being spent outsourcing it to foreign soil.

Answer 5

By letting the tax cuts expire you get -TaDa :
"The U.S. House passed a $2.9 trillion budget Thursday that Republicans say will result in the largest tax increase in history because it does not extend the president’s tax cuts, which are expected to expire in 2010.
Pete Sepp, vice president for communications at the National Taxpayers Union, said each taxpaying family would fork out $1,900 more annually under the Democrats’ plan. In addition, the child tax credit would be reduced from $1,000 per child to $500, and the marriage penalty would be brought back into the tax code. "

Looks like taxes go up to me.

Answer 6

The CBO talks as though the hot taxes won't reason all and sundry to re-examine what they do or how they do it. that's figures are consistent with present day conduct coupled with larger tax expenditures and taxes on issues no longer presently taxed. it may be confusing to have faith all and sundry must be so ignorant on the subject of economic themes, till we comprehend the CBO is a factor of the federal government.

Answer 7

The only way the Republicans were able to get the tax cuts passed is if they included a sunset clause in the bill. If the cuts are eliminated by the current Democrat majority in Congress(which is what the Dems are saying they want to do) then it doesn't matter how many big words you use to try to express your mock outrage. The facts are the Democrats are responsible for a tax increase.

Answer 8

The biggest lie was the republicans massively raising spending the last 12 years and lowering taxes. We really need 70% tax rates asap since everyone wants Socialism so we can enjoy 35 hr work weeks and the govt can tell us what jobs we work and what Drs we are allowed to see. They will raise our kids for us.

Answer 9

so lets see who is incharge of this web site huh?
head of board of directors
David de Ferranti, Vice President of the World Bank for the Latin American and Caribbean Region, Chair

Henry J. Aaron, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

members
Richard P. Nathan, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government

Marion Pines, Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies
Robert D. Reischauer, President, Urban Institute
Susan Sechler, Senior Advisor, German Marshall Fund

Juan Sepulveda, Jr., Executive Director, the Common Enterprise/San Antonio Research Associate

William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, Harvard University


yea, no agenda there.................its the whos who of liberal think tanks and socialistic organizations.

Answer 10

Sad that these same people who put our military in harms way without the proper equipment in the first place are accusing the Democrats of putting them in harms way for trying to bring them home.

Conservatives are nothing more than Cons in business suits. It makes me sick.