Can,t DEM even Do NOTHING effectively?

So a decrease in consumer spending by 2% of the population is going to stall the economy? The rest of us 98% will continue to spend everything we earn anyway. Stop the free ride for the super rich.

Obviously, we give all the money to the rich. It may destroy America, but why buck the trend?

Recent news has it that most businesses, small and large, are holding onto revenue rather than creating jobs for the unemployed or underemployed. In what way does this help the ever-shrinking middle class or working class?

Allowing tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Americans to expire would easily reduce deficits at least partially incurred by two intractable wars, GWB's elimination of Clinton's surplus, and the bailout of all things Too Big To Fail..

While the cost of living rises and wages decrease, it should come as little surprise that Republicrats and Demoplicans seek shelter in the shrinking center.

So it goes.

Every time I see one of the commercials advertising no tax hikes for the rich I get nervous. Now this article comes out and my heart starts to race. Wtf is wrong w/the govt in our country that this isn't a done deal? It's like the Rich assume a new Law gas already been written into effect and are arguing points on its behalf. The Dems HAVE GOT TO BE IN ON IT!
There is spin upon spin upon spin going on here confused further by reporting from media news corps each w/their own agenda. It's maddening I tell you!

CynicalOptomist - Actually you missed that the point is how many republicans and democrats are calling this a 'tax raise' when it's not. It's just repealing a 'tax cut', and one that was a mistake to begin with. The author wasn't calling it a push to raise taxes, because that's the language the backers of an extension are using.

Plus, it's still a tax raise, even if it's returning rates to what they were before. That's why the dissenters are able to say it with a straight face. No matter the logistics behind this tax bill's history, the tax rates for those above a certain point will go up, even if it's just returning them from a point when they went down.

Totally agree with CynicalOptomist. Letting the senseless current law expire as it was written to do will not cause these bloodsuckers to Not create more jobs . The 2% of the Richest already Own everything they want and need nothing else. Hellfire, they have not created anything remotely resembling Jobs in this country for at least the last 10+ years, even With the Tax Cuts. Unless money is Circulated it might as well be in a Mausoleum.

How can anyone actually expect this Economy to come out of this Depression without Jobs and the money that will bring? Only a bunch of morons in our Congress, I guess.

The Corporations are busily occupied in giving Our jobs to Third World Countries so they can Add even more Wealth to their own damn bank accounts. They pay slave wages over there, plus they do not even pay Taxes on what they make, as their bottom lines swell. What is fair about that ?

We need to Fire every damn one of the People that are presently in Congress..leaving none there to continue to contaminate any..hopefully.. honest newcomers that we Might be able to entice to run for the soon -to-be vacated seats. That is also assuming that there are enough registered voters that will educate themselves to know who to vote for--- and will get out there and Vote.

Turn off Fox News, and Read, go to all Town Hall Meetings, Communicate with your friends and even your Neighbors. But please stop waiting for the MSM to tell you who to vote for , as their agenda is not in your best interests. Hasn't been ..in decades.

Pathetic. I try so hard to see the good here, but, fear we are doomed. The dumbing down of America has really worked - if we really needed dumbing down in the first place. I wonder.

Democrats would have to construct a new law extending the tax cuts, because they expire after 2010. There's nothing to repeal. Either the tax cuts expire, or they are continued with new legislation. Any Democrats who want to create and pass new legislation authorizing a new period of the Bush tax cuts, should be replaced immediately.

What did we expect?
Was no one watching the Democrats perform during the Bush years?

The term "tax increase" is growing old. It's not increasing taxes, it's letting tax rates go back to what they were prior to the senseless and wreckless Bush tax cuts for the rich. The current animosity toward what many people perceive to be as high taxes (a good few who are against any taxes at all) is a classic example of either short term memory or just plain ignorance on the behalf of many Americans. Back in the 1950s and and 1960s, taxes on the richest in our country stood between 70 and 90 percent. That's when bridges and tunnels were being built, new highways and interstates paved, new power plants being built, new oil refineries. Our country was doing well. Fast-forward to now, after the "Reagan Revolution" and the Bush years that lowered tax rates on the rich- we now have a crumbling infrastructure, a failing education system, and an undying dependence on fossil fuels instead of converting to clean energy. People need to remember the plain and simple truth- taxes are the government's revenue. It's how we get things done. Less tax= less money into the government. If you cut taxes twice in the middle of two wars as Bush did, the government is spending a lot of money on those wars at the same time as not taking in as much money because the rich aren't paying their fair share. The term "tax cuts" is code word for cutting programs that help the working poor and the people out of work. Remember that.