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- Ben Whine Stein. Your sad sack and smarmy demeanor has warn thin. It's hard for me a hard working, middle class, college educated American to feel your pain. Get over yourself, Ben. You trivialize what many of the remaining 98% of Americans, who are not in your income bracket, are having to deal with right now. If you feel you are being punished or are having to make life style sacrifices, get another job as an entertainer, political speech writer, game show host, etc, instead of expecting us to pick up the tab for you.
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- That's not the point. The point is that government is too big to be effective and needs to be pared down. We need to enforce the 10th.
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- What a pathetic whiner. Try living in my shoes for a while.
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- I'm starting to feel sorry for Ben. I like the guy. He didn't do anything any of us would do given similar circumstances. The problem is that the tax break ever went through in the first place. Let alone for this long.
Now, it has just been too long and he has become addicted to his extra liquidity. I suppose if he lived in Lichtenstein, where people pay no taxes at all, he would become used to that too. - Reply to this comment
- O.K. I see what's going on here. Basically people fall into 2 groups. Either you will be paying more in taxes or not. Apparently seeing how our government is printing money these days, we need money. Now either the government can go to those who have it, (even though they'd like to keep it) or those who don't, (who I am guessing would like to be in a position, where they are making enough money to pay even more in taxes.
So I agree with Ben Stein. Why does he feel like he's being punished? - Reply to this comment
- Don't we have a deficit to pay down? 700 billion to a trillion we save by letting the rich folks' taxes expire might make a dent. If you look back in the pre-Reagan past, rich people used to pay a lot more in taxes -- and actually chipped in even more during times of war. They knew they would always have plenty left over to live large. Today's whiny rich folks are just too much, frankly. Hurting the middle class will not help them in the long run, b/c at least middle class people respect rich people's values and world view. The poor can't stand them.
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- I'll tell you who's been punished and continues to be punished. People whose wages haven't kept up with the cost of living here in the US. People like me who work for one of the most profitable law firms in the US who did NOT get a raise last year and got a laughable raise this year (one that doesn't even cover the increase in my medical insurance premiums, and I have the cheapest HMO they offer). We didn't get a raise last year and they laid off 10% of the work force, NOT because they were in dire financial straits, but simply because they hadn't made quite as much money as they had gotten used to raking in, and the bad economy provided the greedy partners with an excuse to make everybody work twice as much for the same pay. Even people who make less money than YOU find your screed about being "punished" embarrassing. If it was up to me, you'd be getting a MUCH bigger tax increase than a lousy 3.5%. Gee, will that extra 3.5% mean you can't get health insurance, or buy necessary medicine, or put food on your table? PUH-LEASE.
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- mgesh, let's get RID of the loopholes and enact the FAIR TAX. We'll do away with deductions, exemptions, tax shelters and give everyone "prebates" enabling everyone to spend up to a certain amount of their income on basic necessities depending on theor family size. Every dollar spent will be taxed at the time it is spent, regardless o fyour country of origin, citixenship status, and income, and of course, income tax will go away completely at the same time this in enacted. Would that not be everyone paying their "fair share"?
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- Ben, SHAME ON YOU. If you are impacted by this tax cut expiration, you are in the richest 5% of Americans. I'm so sick of you spoiled, entitled "affluent" a-holes complaining about being asked to contribute towards the well-being of our country. If anything, we should raise the maximum rate back to what it was when we needed to pay down the debt of WWII: 91%! You are your kind with your whiny anti-tax attitude disgust me. If you think USA taxes you too much, LEAVE. Oh that's right, we have some of the lowest taxes for wealthy people in the world.
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- Gee, Ben, my heart bleeds for you. But you know damn well your taxes aren't being "raised." The breaks you were getting have simply expired. What did you do to "deserve" those?
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