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isawadog:

And by “poors” I mean “people making less than $106,800 a year,” or, alternatively, “you.”

Last year, Republicans in Congress threw Obama a bone, agreeing to a compromise, cutting payroll taxes 2% in exchange for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, because those are equal.

The awful payroll tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year, and Obama wants to extend them, presumably to bankrupt Social Security once and for all, but the Republicans are surprisingly against it.

So what could make a Tax-and-Spend liberal from these otherwise steadfast Spend-and-Spend conservatives? A bunch of things!

Apparently, these are temporary tax cuts:

“We don’t need short-term gestures. We need long-term fundamental changes in our tax structure and our regulatory structure that people who create jobs can rely on,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.

And I guess they are fiscally irresponsible:

“It’s always a net positive to let taxpayers keep more of what they earn,” says Rep. Jeb Hensarling, “but not all tax relief is created equal for the purposes of helping to get the economy moving again.”

So to a Republican a $120 billion fiscally irresponsible temporary tax cut so people can buy bread is totally better than a $700 billion fiscally irresponsible temporary tax cut so people can buy more gold plated seat belt buckles for private jets.

Of course, that was never really the point.  You dont deserve a tax cut.  Besides the fact that dont have enough money to anonymously donate to a shadowy conservative PAC, you dont actually do anything of value. 

“But I sit in a cubicle all day and type numbers on my typer, and stare at screens, and go home a drink all night to fill the void where my soul used to be.” Oh I know, but without that rich guy sitting upstairs you would be worthless. I’m actually surprised you don’t need someone to help you feed yourself, which actually, the CEO has, its really a lot of work, you know, chewing and such.

Not like it maters anyway, you have to have a paycheck to get a payroll tax cut.