Reply to "President Obama's tax cuts/increases"

I think the libs on this thread are really missing something important. Socialism will never make this country great (It has not anywhere else that I am aware). Capitalism has its faults, yes; but it still has made this country the envy of the world. Capitalism will always have recessions along with boom times -- if you know anything about the history then you will realize that this has occurred many times in the past. I do not think it is any reason to throw that away, so we can have an economy like what, France or Germany?

I like the flat tax idea too -- but the libs will always get out the class warfare thing as they have for the last 50 years. Maybe we should all do nothing, get socialized medicine, live off from the government with welfare, and hope that some rich b@$t@rd pays for it all. Sounds fair to me.

Larry, the other thing you said about water, sewer, fire departments etc... The only thing that is supported by my income tax is the military that you mentioned, and Obama is going to cut this so Russia and China will be emboldened to have air bases in Cuba again -- I am going to love to see how Team Obama talks their way out of this one. I pay my sewer and water to the City. I pay the gas bill to another outfit. I pay my medical insurance to someone else so my family can have this too. The Interstate highway system was paid not from income taxes, but from use taxes every time you purchase gasoline or register your car. So again, you are talking from emotion and not facts. My taxes are going up to 67%, this is the aggregate of state and federal income taxes along with all of the other payroll taxes. This will go to fund the trillions that is being spent on my behalf that I really do not agree with. So to ever get me to agree that this is a good deal, never is a long time, but I really do not think the money is being well spent on any of this pork in these spending bills.

OSOFAST, you think that Bush is the bogey man? Well, the Dems have been controlling Congress since 2006, and while they have been the majority, the market has tanked. Again, it will take a while for this to sink in, but check your investments in your 401k and tell me that somehow, magically, that this is the minority in Congress' issue.

P.S. You also say that you would be glad to have my income -- I bet you would, without the responsibility that goes along with it. But you would have to work damn hard and hope that you do not go under as there is a lot of risk in a private business, and no one will be coming to bail me out if anything goes wrong, especially now. There is a lot of responsibility in my job that you will never know -- what is that saying, grass is always greener on the other side of the fence? Certainly applies here.