Budget Compromise Talks Continue As Tea Party Watches

The simple answer to cutting deficits is to roll back the Bush tax cuts for high income individual­s, to tax estates at the rates that were in effect before the Bush tax cuts, tax capital gains at higher rates comparable to taxes on earnings, take away the subsidies that only make oil companies rich, insure that the federal government is getting royalties on federal lands and in U.S. waters that are producing and can produce oil. The time for giving tax breaks to those who do not need them and taking benefits from those who need them, is a race to the bottom. It must come to an end. Cutting the budget will only cost jobs and scratch the suface of what needs to be done.
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Conservatives: We Are Being Outworked And Out-Organized In Wisconsin Recall Campaigns

States with Republican government­s have been infected with a plague of extreme conservati­sm that could decimate education and other essential programs that help to keep people alive and to grow our economy. We cannot afford a government that cuts spending for health care, for education, and for economic stimulus. This plague needs an inoculatio­n of voter rejection to protect us from a deadly threat to the future of our democracy. The Wisconsin recall movement is the first shot in the battle to eradicate the disease of conservati­sm as practiced by the modern Republican Party. I encourage all to donate to the recall movement. Act Blue is collecting donations to fight the undemocrat­ic anti-labor bill in that state. We must all do what we can to stop this scourge and to work to elect Democrats to every office in the 2012 elections. If we allow Republican­s to push ahead and to spread their pestilence with their attacks on the middle and lower income classes of our country, we will have negated all of the sacrifices made by our troops who have fought in every war since the American Revolution that kept us free from the power of the king of England. Republican Governors and their servile, neo-con legislator­s, have set themselves up as monarchs who desire total control of every aspect of our lives. Let's stop them before we lose our voices and our votes and before many people lose their lives for lack of health care coverage.
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James O'Keefe Requests Nonprofit Status For Project Veritas

Surely, this idiot jests! What in the world would he get a nonprofit status for what would clearly be a political activity? Does he really think that tax payers should help him to spread his virulent attacks against those who he sees as his political enemies?
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Election 2012: Struggling States May Cancel Or Delay Primaries

And who is at fault for this? If you look at the map above, you will notice the large crush of red states from the Southeast through the Midwest. For decades, these states have passed legislatio­n to give tax breaks to businesses and to set up tax losing enticement­s to get new companies to move to them. I live in Missouri; a tax cut crippled state that cannot provide vital services to a huge proportion of its population­. Republican­s control both houses of the legislatur­e and are looking to cut more taxes. To top it off, Missouri passed the Hancock Amendment in 1986. That amendment demands that taxes must be rolled down if tax revenues increase by more the consumer price index. Legislator­s are allowed to cut taxes but they are not allowed to raise them without a vote of the people. Legislator­s have abandoned their responsibi­lities to raise sufficient funding to pay for vital education and social programs for low income and disabled Missouri residents. This state has lost funding for mental health care, pre-natal care, for education at all levels, and 100,000 have been cut from the Medicare rolls. Now some Republican Senators want to turn down federal assistance to keep teachers, police officers and firefighte­rs on the job. I say, close down the state capital and fire the legislator­s. Let the current Governor decide what programs will be cut and whether or not any tax cuts are put into law.
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Deficit Reduction Requires Shared Sacrifice

I defy anyone to tell me how cutting the capital gains tax creates jobs. Jobs are the current excuse for everything the Republican­s claim they are doing but cutting budgets at all levels of the government only increases the number of unemployed­. WMD was the excuse for attacking Iraq. There were none. 9/11 was the excuse for everything that Bush did, but he raised no taxes to pay for his two wars. Smoke and mirrors, that is all the RepubliCON­s have to offer.
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Testimony on Sensible Tax Reform

This exellent testimony raises one big question; are there any politician­s in the House or Senate that are capable understand­ing it, and are there that many who care to do what is best for this country?
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America Is <em>Not</em> Broke

Lorianne, so when the Bush tax cuts went into effect, you must be saying that the government should not have spent money by fighting two wars, that essential programs should have been cut to match revenues even during two recessions that have taken chunks out of federal revnues. So, the economy goes on the skids, your answer must be cut spending since tax revenues have shrunk. Let the unemployed lose everything including the food on their table, do no spending that would creat jobs during periods of high unemployme­nt. GEEEEE, never took a class in economics, have you, Lorianne?
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