GOP Logic: More George Bush style tax cuts to get us out of George Bush's mess

The 3% of the stimulus spent on roads and bridges should be familiar, Congress allocates 3% for roads and bridges in the budget too. Is this the template they are using? If so, how about all those calls for "new rail" projects? Is that crickets I hear?

If roads and bridges get 3%, how about 20% for new rail? Only new technology though, none of that 40 year old light rail stuff.

Does this mean that you would also nix the Obama middle-class tax cuts?

If Obama gives in to GOP cronyism he is sure to fail. Its the GOP that got us into this mess and now they should be told to sit down and shut up.

Obama has done a great job in his first week and I hope he will continue on the path he has chosen.

Tax cuts have nothing what so ever to do with the economic mess we are experiencing. Try two very expensive and totally unnecessary wars and a very loose FED policy that encouraged sub prime lending in the housing and other markets.

Try several new departments in government that duplicate the efforts of other established departments. i.e. Homeland Security.

Those caused the problem, not tax cuts.

Republicans are so divorced from from reality that they can't recognize their failures. In their delusionary state they really believe we need more of their tax cuts for the rich and the other very things that got us to this deplorable state?

Col. what are you talking about? Those things are not mutually exclusive. You don't go to wars and cut taxes. Duh. Isn't it why McCain said that's why he voted against the tax cuts? Simply put you don't increase your expenditure (new wars, homeland security department) and cut your revenue (taxes) unless you were sitting on massive surplus and/or pledge to eliminate waste. Neither of these happened and will not happen. Until then, get the revenue coming: TAXES!!!

Alan,

This is your virgin submission to Obama Watch


Are you excited?

As far as tax cuts in the manner that your post has described, GOOD GRIEF! When shall enough be enough, (and that is NOT a question.)

Remember what Einstein said about HIS definition of insanity.

"Tax cuts have nothing what so ever to do with the economic mess we are experiencing. Try "

Spoken like a truly delusional republican. Sorry, but the additional $2 trillion in tax cuts have contributed a MASSIVE amount to the mess we're in right now, not to mention the trillions in millionaire welfare handouts that republiCONs have handed Bill gates between 1981 and 1993. Altogether, republiCON presidents and congresses have saddled this nation with a whopping $10 trillion in debt since 1981, and they've managed to do that by dramatically reducing federal revenue by cutting top tax rates, while at the same time massively expanding federal spending.

RepubliCONs should be banished from this country forever, imo. This is a diseased curse of a party that wreaks nothing but catastrophic damage wherever it goes.




"very loose FED policy that encouraged sub prime lending in the housing and other markets."

Just to show that you haven't a clue what you're talking about, why don't you produce the numbers to back this statement? Let's see how much actual money was lost due to sub-prime lending, vs. what's been lost due to idiotic republICON deregulation/ponzi schemes and the creation and manipulation of derivitives markets (beware...this market is estimated to be somewhere around $60 trillion of pretend wealth, so you're going to have to work pretty hard to prove to me that it was sub-prime lending's fault).




"Try several new departments in government that duplicate the efforts of other established departments. i.e. Homeland Security."

Homeland security, while clearly yet another foolish republiCON failure and excuse to once again create explosive growth of the federal government, has a budget of about $40 billion. The military has a current budget of about $1 trillion, if you don't count Iraq and Afghanistan.




"Those caused the problem, not tax cuts. "

You're being naive. There were several things that caused the mess we're in right now, and virtually all of them can be traced directly to failed republiCON policies of cutting taxes for millionaires while massively expanding federal spending, through debt, as well as widescale, ill-thought deregulation of financial industries, which led to fraud, abuses, and wreckless gambling.

$2 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires. $40 billion for homeland security.

The colonel is truly delusional.

Tax cuts don't raise wages. What are we talking about here? $3000 a year = $250 a month = $125 per bi-weekly paycheck. LOL. Put that on the gas tank this summer. If you think an average tax cut of $3000 a year, because that's what they are talking about, or $125 per paycheck is what will turn this thing around, simply put, YOU ARE AN IDIOT

How many times are they going to propose tax cuts for just about anything. Tax cuts for job creation, tax cuts for gasoline prices (remember the holiday tax cuts proposed by McCain last summer), tax cuts for stimulating the economy.

The question is, how dumb do they think you are

These folks don't know much that's why they come up with the tax cut solution every time there is a problem.

Something needs to be done and republicans better propose something other than tax cuts. Come'on. Some ideas!!!

"Tax cuts don't raise wages."

Quite the opposite, in fact. Middle class incomes have fallen since wingnuts began cutting top tax rates in 1981. It's all part of the wingnut grand plan to destroy America from the inside.




"Something needs to be done and republicans better propose something other than tax cuts. Come'on. Some ideas!!! "

Those idiots have no ideas beyond tax cuts for millionaires. Haven't you figured that out yet?

Neither party has much of a clue except to what will gain them political power. For the Dems its increasingly taxing the minority and expanding transfers to the non taxpayers. For the Repubs , its tax cuts offset by spending increases on the same end goal of ensuring staying time. Both have no long term vision or cares beyond that and it shows. Dems screamed about deficit spending, especially the war bills and then immediately after gaining power proposed to deficit spend that entire amount and more in 1-2 years rather than 8.

Yeah tax cuts work in increasing revenue but they MUST not be in conjunction with spending increases. Neither party seems to understand math.

"so, the republicans are proposing more tax us as a solution."

So your premise is that tax cuts are what caused this problem? Nothing to do with the housing bubble, eh? You moonbats kill me with your lack of critical thought.

Anywho, now the dems want to borrow and spend on a whole new historical scale... way to go.

Well spending sure isn't the way to go, that will put us more in debt and the spending that is being proposed ain't gonna do squat diddly do for the stimulus of the economy.
Bet me it goes in democrat pockets.