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Protesting What exactly?
Author: Raine
Date: 04/15/2010 12:47:23
They started protesting a year ago today. They protested taxes. Since then they have protested nearly everything else this administration has done. What they seem to have forgotten in all the protestations and the yelling and screaming and even in a few cases -- threat of physical violence, is that this year many are paying lower taxes even with tax increases passed by many states to balance their budgets.
In response to said tax cuts, Grover Norquist repilies Are you having a WTF moment here as well?
Most Americans received a tax cut this year. More Americans are getting a refund. But they protest anyway.
If this isn't choosing against one's own best interest I don't know what is. The reality is that these tax cuts won't last for many Americans. Who are those Americans? They are the ones who earn more than $200,000 individually and $250,000 per family. That is slated to happen next January after the Bushtax cuts are left to expire. Yet, according to a poll taken by CBS: Still, they protest. I don't think they know what they are protesting anymore. If they never stop protesting how can they see that maybe they got what they wanted when they started the first TEA party protest last April 15. Someone seems to have forgotten to tell these people. It's either that or they aren't really protesting taxes anymore.
It's hard to try to tell truth to those who want to believe lies. You can take that to the bank with your tax cuts. The rest can just protest against something that never really happened.
and 
Raine
In response to said tax cuts, Grover Norquist repilies
"I thought that we were going to have to wait until the tax increases started to see popular unhappiness," Norquist said at a Capitol Hill forum Wednesday. "Last year, people started reacting, the tea parties started organizing, in reaction to spending too much. They didn't wait for the tax increases to come."
Most Americans received a tax cut this year. More Americans are getting a refund. But they protest anyway.
If this isn't choosing against one's own best interest I don't know what is. The reality is that these tax cuts won't last for many Americans. Who are those Americans? They are the ones who earn more than $200,000 individually and $250,000 per family. That is slated to happen next January after the Bushtax cuts are left to expire. Yet, according to a poll taken by CBS:
Today, thousands of Tea Partiers will descend on Washington to declare they've been "Taxed Enough Already." Yesterday's poll found that 64 percent of Tea Party supporters think the administration has raised taxes -- a finding that might leave Democrats banging their heads against their desks.
"The American people need to be reminded that 98 percent of Americans got a tax cut last year," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday.
Reid was referring to the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as the stimulus -- essentially, the only Obama policy to really impact people's 2009 tax returns. In fact, tax refunds reached an all-time high this year in part because of the stimulus, the president said in his weekly address on Saturday. Meanwhile, taxes are at their lowest levels in 60 years, according to William Gale, co-director of the Tax Policy Center and director of the Retirement Security Project at the Brookings Institution.
It's hard to try to tell truth to those who want to believe lies. You can take that to the bank with your tax cuts. The rest can just protest against something that never really happened.
and Raine
