10 who led us to the fiscal cliff

Brutus Said

Letting private citizens keep their own wealth is NOT socialism.

I would say tax loopholes, unfair deductions, taxx havens, lobbyists, lower rates, laws that help outsourcing are not socialism, your are correct.

THEY ARE F'ING CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!​!!!!!!

Also I would say allowing companies to pay crappy low wages so that they qualify for government assistance is socialism, it is taking from the middle class and giving it to the top 2%, and the Chinese who get all the manufactoring jobs that used to pay better. 

You can say get a better job but what job?  There aren't any, they were sent over seas or visa's were issued so Mexicans could come and do jobs in the USA.  Jobs an american won't do, ha, not for the poverty wages they pay!!!!!!  Hell now illegals are building houses, they will work for less then half of what they would pay an American, how many jobs were lost there?  Has the problem been fixed, not by either side!!!!!

All of our POLITICIAN"S are to blame for this mess. We cannot blame the voters, what choices did we have? Money controlled all of the elections, a person that could help this country was run over by the money machine to keep the BUM'S that are now in office keep there jobs. We don't hear anything about the POLITICIAN'S cutting there pay or benefits to help reduce the deficit, they want to raise taxes and cut MEDICARE and Social Security, something that the working stiffs have paid into all of there working lives. This country has gotten to be disgraceful, Politician's are only concerned about themselves and keep there life style the same. How do we get change when most of the POLITICIAN'S are MILLIONAIRES.

Why do we continue to support other countries when we can't afford to support our own?

cutting rates did increase revenue. It is easy to look at with cap gains. In the last 30+ years we have had 4 changes to cap gains, 3 down and one up. All 3 times the rates were cut in 1981, 1997 and 2001(2003) revenue went UP. The one time rates were increased in 1987, from 20 to 28%, rates were lower for the next decade than 1986 revenue. Whoever did this article has NO CLUE.

Deficits have very little to do with taxes and mostly everything to do with spending. Look up revenue as a percentage of GDP since 1950 and its going to average around 18% no matter what the rate. The reason we had surplus in the late 90's was that was the lowest spending/GDP we have had since the 70's. Today we are spending 24% of GDP and no tax change up or down can cover that.

Unfortunately Washington doesn’t get it either, but most of Washington is run by political dynasties exacerbated by both political parties buying votes and taking care of family dynasties, and family businesses, rather than providing the leadership and stewardship needed to ensure the survival and growth of our nation. Tax the rich, great propaganda line. If the President gets his tax hike on those making over 250,000 a year it will run the country for 8 days at the current rate of spending. What are we suppose to do for the 357 day that remain. We need to figure out how to get the big business to bring back our jobs. They already have the tax code rigged they are laughing at us and both parties work for them.