Comments on: Tax hikes conservatives can love

By: urownexperience

urownexperience — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:51:00 +0000

Republicans and the NRA.F//k them.

By: americanguy

americanguy — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:15:22 +0000

Only the working class pays the top income tax rates.
The wealthy pay little or no taxes. Most wealthy stash their money in offshore accounts. If the working people paid as little in taxes as the wealthy, the USA would be bankrupt in one week.
That’s a fact, like it or not.
Spin it any way you wish, the wealthy are getting tax welfare.

By: PepePinguita

PepePinguita — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:17:05 +0000

What about the Norway massacre of 77 innocent people…that society SEVERELY restricts guns and nobody has one. The bottom line is that regardless of how strict you are restricting guns, someone, somewhere will get one. The worst part about strict gun control is that when a lunatic gets one, they run rampant, able to kill people at will because everyone else is defenseless. If several of those brave teachers that got slain protecting the innocents would have been armed, they would have had a chance to spray bullets back instead of sit there like a lamb to slaughter. I say all schools need to have armed teachers ready to protect our kids at a time of danger, not naked and unarmed against future assailants.

By: urukhai2

urukhai2 — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:37:26 +0000

While I would not want to see ANY tax increases on anybody (we have a spending issue, not a revenue issue) these are the first reasonable tax increases I’ve read abot. I do disagree with a few things, though. The term “Federal Government Loses $70 Billion…”, for example. The money is not the Federal Government’s to lose. Money is the property of those that earn it. Government does not earn money, it confiscates it. The other thing that drives me bananas is using 10 year estimated revenue (which is ALWAYS wrong) when discussing taxes. Politicians state a current budget (hey, when was the last time we actually had one of those?) defecit but talk about revenues over ten years. That is not honest in any way. Overall a good srticle, Mr. Salam.

By: PCScipio

PCScipio — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:00:32 +0000

How about any “job creator” making over $250K/yr who doesn’t actually create new jobs in that tax year has to pay 50% tax on all income over $1? The $250K threshold will be adjusted by the Chained CPI to make it fair to those affected. Combining this with a pop in the death tax will solve our national debt problem quite soon since all those job creators will have acute myocardial infarctions after the first year.