Liberal Democrats Livid Over Tax-Cut Compromise; Sanders Threatens Filibuster

Though I feel I am already taxed to death, I'd rather have all of the tax cuts expire and pay more than give the rich one more penny!!!! Some of the richest people in the country, including Warren Buffet, sent a letter to Obama stating that they WANT TO PAY MORE TAXES... they feel they've done well for a long time and that it's time to give back to our country... they now the middle class is the back bone of this country and when we are gone the rich will suffer as well.

Why don't they just print more money to pay for everything to make up for the financial budget. Stop sending money to other countries that can't even account for where it goes. Why not recoup the money from the banks that received TARP $ money and the auto companies that are showing a profit. The banks started this by giving bad loans and they should pay for their mistakes.

Its all fine For Obama to help people who really need it, but what about the bums drawing SSI who have never had a job. Their excuses go from being to fat to work or being to stupid to read the job application. Most of these leaches have been playing this game for generations. Good old Bill Clinton tried to overhaul the welfare debacle years ago. But these people being the crafty, non working, non tax paying leaches who prey on those that do. Went in a different direction. Its called SSI. Tell me where this money is coming from? Then you see these large family's where no one has a job, all their kids as well as both adults have cell phones, living in section 8 housing, on food stamps, driving SUV's, going to food banks to load up on free food meant for those down on their luck. Doing drugs, and all the booze you can drink thanks to SSI. Then these same people are milking the MEDICAD system to pay for them to have more kids, its just out of control and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth listening to Obama saying we need to add more benefits to these people. what about the people who helped build this country.

Obama has three weeks left to get it right, and still he keeps screwing up. Continuing Bush-era tax breaks reduces government income; funding unemployment benefits spends money we don't have. You can't do both. Funding unemployment benefits requires elinimating tax breaks for the rich. What part of "balanced budget" doesn't he understand? Kudos to Dick Durbin and company.

The "Wealth-aholics" have won again. There will be even more money for pathologically acquistive and less for everyone and everything else. If we got to the logical endpoint at which a single person controlled all the wealth in the country, what do you suppose would happen? They'd complain that they were the only person paying taxes, and all their purchased Congressmen would vote to abolish taxes entirely. Soylent Green isn't far behind.

No problem with the estate tax provisions-- remember, this is double taxation at its finest! I do, however, have problems with Congress and the administration's continued actions of TEMPORARY fixes- which in reality fix NOTHING. Why not finally FIX AMT... allow it to index or something-- but FIX IT! And these measures as currently constructed simply continue the death spiral of borrowing into the future. We need a concrete fix-- and everyone needs to ante up. ...just more of the same from Washington!

I say let all the cuts expire. We have fought 2 wars and not funded a dime of it - time to pay up America! We elected Bushie so he could prosecute these wars & run us $5 trillion more in debt - we have to pay it up. If everyone's suddenly worried about debt and deficit then let the taxes go back to where they were, stop the spending, and let us have our full on Depression we need to get things corrected again.

Now that Obama will really compromise with Republicans we get to see the rest of the Democrats having hissies about it! Middle ground has been reached, movement finally begins, and now we see the real intent of Dems...they don't want to compromise anything if it would actually help people.

Being a liberal Democrat; I say stand firm against the Republican agenda, whick as always more for the rich. At this rate there will be little left of the middle class. President Obama when I voted for you I believed the Democrats would make life better for the middle class, knowing you and fellow Democrats have accomplished much, let' keep up and avoid the Republician "compromise".

It's TEMPORARY people!!! Two years!! I wish they did this with the Health Care Bill instead of rushing it through. Perhaps the President learned something from that fumble after all.