Senator McCaskill on Tax Cuts

[Ben]

I wonder if she realizes those evil capitol gains and dividends are the income many middle Americans will be living on in their retirement? If people like her weren't out to stick it to "the rich", we wouldn't have such a complex tax code.

Also, is Schumer the smuggest guy in the Senate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdcDjQz01z4&feature=player_embedded#

[Perd Hapley]

As a Missourian, I don't want to hear any more from McCaskill. She is a smug elitist with no respect for the voters, and will get none of my time.

Hopefully, Talent will destroy her in 2012.

[grampster]

If she is having such a tough time undestanding things, maybe she should retire and go home.

[sanglant]

Schumer, smug? nah, that's just the 'ludes.

[Ben]

As a Missourian, I don't want to hear any more from McCaskill. She is a smug elitist with no respect for the voters, and will get none of my time.

I'm actually shocked someone with her views could have gotten elected in Missouri in the first place. If she were running here in CA, yeah, she'd practically be a moderate.

[Battle Monkey of Zardoz]

Maybe she will find her pitchfork mob. Maybe it won't be what she thinks.

[Perd Hapley]

I never gave much thought to McCaskill until she was at one of those rowdy health-care meetings, and started acting all disappointed and upset that people were being so "rude." (Yes, of course they were being rude. That is what you get when you don't respond to polite discussion.)

Then, I heard her interviewed on the radio, and she complained that Sarah Palin had screwed up the health care debate by making it all about death panels. To this day, I wish I had called the station to make two points:

1. Senator, we will tell you which parts of the bill we want to discuss, and how; not the other way around.

2. If you don't like Palin's focus on death panels, blame those who wrote death panels into the legislation. If you don't like us calling them death panels, see rule number 1.

[dm1333]

I just recently saw Senator McCaskill talking about the tax cuts.  Two things struck me as wrong.  The first was that she said we were "giving" money to the rich with these tax cuts.  I thought they had earned it and the government was taking a percentage away.  The second is that I have heard several people saying we have to "pay" for these tax cuts, or that these cuts aren't "paid" for.  Huh.  I thought if we cut taxes we just had less revenue coming in and would have to cut what we are spending that revenue on. 

[TommyGunn]

I just recently saw Senator McCaskill talking about the tax cuts.  Two things struck me as wrong.  The first was that she said we were "giving" money to the rich with these tax cuts.  I thought they had earned it and the government was taking a percentage away.  The second is that I have heard several people saying we have to "pay" for these tax cuts, or that these cuts aren't "paid" for.  Huh.  I thought if we cut taxes we just had less revenue coming in and would have to cut what we are spending that revenue on. 

STOP IT!  YOU'RE TRYING TO CONFUSE POLITICIANS WITH LOGIC!!!!  That's just downright evil.....

[makattak]

I just recently saw Senator McCaskill talking about the tax cuts.  Two things struck me as wrong.  The first was that she said we were "giving" money to the rich with these tax cuts.  I thought they had earned it and the government was taking a percentage away.  The second is that I have heard several people saying we have to "pay" for these tax cuts, or that these cuts aren't "paid" for.  Huh.  I thought if we cut taxes we just had less revenue coming in and would have to cut what we are spending that revenue on. 

That's fine if you're one of those people who believe it's "the citizen's money."

Since it's all the government's money, it makes sense to be opposed to giving rich people more money and trying to find out how to pay for it.

After all, if the government didn't do all the wonderful things it does now, those rich people would have never made that money! Thus, it is up to the government to decide just how much to grace those citizens with.

(This post was made in sarcasm. However, this is the Hobbesian view of government: We kept you from being plundered by everyone else: therefore, we can plunder you as much as we want so long as you are left with something.)

[longeyes]

Retirees won't be living on dividends and interest; the rest of America will be living on them, Soylent Green-style.  The New America belongs to the young and impressionable.

[MicroBalrog]

The New America belongs to the young and impressionable.

As it well should.