White House, Boehner Spar Over Bush Tax Cuts

the word "hate" is much used today. But the worst use is rarely used by the media. The brainwashing of many to "hate" what has sustained us over 200 years. BUSINESS

Jesus said "Give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser's and God what is God's" whose face in on the currency - not Gods. If we all sign up for welfare we wouldn't have any taxes to worry about, free medical care, free food stamps, free housing, free public transportation, and some cash to spend. Wow!

cogit8r6:24 PM Sep 13, 2010(8) vote this comment up (3) vote this comment down Carol - You are wrong on several levels. People are not entitled to a job. Individuals or corporations invest money to sell a product or provide a service at a profit. When necessary, they hire people to achieve that objective. However, the function of the nusiness is to create a profit and not to create jobs. Also, it unions did not overprice the cost of their members and prohibit companies from discharging unnecessary labor, they wouldn't have to seek different labor options. Finally, in a previous comment, you mentioned eight years of a cult. During five of those eight years (2001 - 2003 and 2007-2008) as well as 2009 and 2010, the Democrats controlled the US Senate. Anything accomplished during that time frame required the consent of the Democratic majority of the Senate. Democrats may have controlled the senate but the final say is the person in the oval office and you had "The Decider" there. "The Dedicer" is the one that signs or vetos. As for unions? THey have their place. Without them we wouldn't have a 40 hour week or paid vacations or sick time or even a decent wage. We would be living in the Ebeneezer Scrooge Era. As for the investing to sell a product. They don't invest if it isn't gonna sell. Actually the people that drive the economy are the consumers and they are not known for being wealthy. But they are the ones that purchase product and thus create jobs since the wealthy that run or own these businesses have to meet the demand. Seems that giving the average consumer some extra cash which they WILL spend will be the thing that will give the economy the kick start it needs.

God, who determines the middle class. I am from the poor state of Alabama and can say the description of "middle class" $200,000 year does not fit this state whatsoever. I guess I am considered "poor class" even with me and my wife's,who is a nurse,combined salary. The government is soooo out of touch with citizens. The rich gets richer and the poor-poorer no matter Republican or Democrat in the White House. Why else do they take the job-to pad their back side. Time for a national revolt aganist the politicians in Alabama and Washington.

SEEMS ALL DEMS DO IS WHINE ABOUT THE REPS AND BUSH.... THEY NEED TO GROW UP AND GET THINGS DONE . KNOCK OFF WITH THE SAME OLD BS......THE DEMS HAVE SPENT 2 YRS WHINING ABOUT FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH .....THIS IS OBAMA'S BABY AND THE BABY NOT ONLY NEEDS BURPING ...........THE DIAPER NEEDS TO BE CHANGED DEMS !!!!!!

There seems to have been the same complaint by many people over the past 18-20 months, even by the Republicans. Government is too large, it needs to be smaller. I am on the fence on this, as in doing research, I wondered what part of government should be cut. Should it be the Military, which takes a large part of the budget? Should it be the Health and Diary part of government that monitors food issues, maybe not when there are salmonella or e-coli problems with the meat we must consumer? Should it be the Consumer Protection agency that helps to monitor recalls on faulty cars, i.e. Toyota, GM, etc? I am sure you would rather risk being killed in your car by demanding they be cut. Should it be Health section that monitors medicines? That would work until the first person who dies from a medication that they took. Should it be the department that over sees the cigarette industry? I would think Boehner would fight that. It doesn't matter that we warn people about the health hazards, but they ignore the warnings telling everyone that it is their life and don't tell them what they can do. That is, until they die and then sue the company and government for not warning them. I could go on naming hundreds of government departments, but I think my point has been made. While there was hiring of temporary Census workers (that is something the government does every 10 years), how much has the government grown in the past 20 months, not counting Census workers? The next time you don't receive a SS or SSI check, you will understand the smaller government. I am not saying that we don't need to downsize overlapping departments, but I want to know how big government was January 20, 2009 and how big government is September 13, 2010.

Here's an eye-opening idea. Rather than tax the rich, let's make ALL politicians who skipped out on paying their "fair share" pay their taxes, including all of the interest and penalties. Let's start with Charles Rangel, since he heads the committee that actually WRITES the tax law. And let's force Tim Geitner to be a good example of a truthful taxpayer. He, too, owes taxes, interest and penalties. Perhaps the IRS should do detailed audits on all Congress-Critters and high-level political appointees. I'm sure we could eliminate a big chunk of the debt if the "I'm above the law" jokers were forced to pay up.

All this back-stabbing partisanship over the last 20 months caused me to change my party affiliation to INDEPENDENT last week. No one in Congress seems to get it; they are supposed to represent their constituents, not pass laws to make them look good. It's all ego and one-upmanship. The functions of the executive, legislative, and judicial have become dangerously cloudy. Let's compromise on the tax cut extensions....extend for at least one year and let the economy improve.

Allowing the tax cuts to expire will not hurt us, and extending them won't help us. Our economy is a mess because we consume more than we produce - we have a trade deficit economy, and trade deficit economies do not produce jobs. Our politicians do not want to address their constitutional obligations to regulate trade, at least not in a manner that would promote the real growth of our domestic economy. They prefer to divert our attention to the results of not having job growth, not having tax revenues and the increase in social program spending - rather than addressing the cause, which is a decline in our domestic production of goods and services while increasing our consumption of foreign goods. If our people were working, tax revenues would increase, and social program spending would decline. Fix the trade situation to promote domestic production and watch our economy grow.

Make everyone pay 10% and there would not be a tax problem. Phil Shafer