I'm not saying I'm not in favor of them expiring. I do think some of the ones listed are problematic for businesses and individuals. But I stand firm in the thinking that as long as we are fighting elective wars, we should not have tax cuts - and I think it showed tremendous gall by the Bush administration to enact the first tax cuts in our nation's history (from my recollection) at a time of war - let alone multiple wars.
There is no sacrifice for most Americans as far as our country participating in wars at this point. I wonder how many people supporting these wars - and ongoing tax cuts - would think otherwise if they had family members, or themselves were a part of a mandatory draft, like we had in previous wars. People at this point are oblivious to what is going on over there - I consider myself to not think of it nearly often enough - and more people are more concerned about losing cash to tax cuts expiring than they are what they can do to help our war efforts, among other things. Blind support when it doesn't affect you is pretty easy.
I for one think cuts in many of the democratic suggested programs should also be a part of this. It needs to be an across the board situation, IMO. I do know we had tax cuts for a large percentage of Americans in Obama's term, which is rarely mentioned by those concerned with additional taxes.
Regardless of the war/healthcare (whatever you don?t like the government spending your particular tax dollars on) Obama said that we should be thanking him for the greatest expansion of government in history. He said, "You would think they'd be saying thank you" because he claims he is keeping taxes as low as they have ever been.
Not long ago, he expanded on this point claiming that he has kept his promise of not raising income taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year.
Notice anything unusual about that statement? Obama is claiming that he has kept his promise because he has not raised income taxes on those earning less than $250,000 a year.
While that may be true, he has not lived up to his promise from September of 2008: "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
So now we are changing the rules of the game, and most of the folks out there - along with the media - will not challenge him. Along with these tax increases, we have spending and indebtedness that has grown exponentially under Obama.
Government spending is now equivalent to, who knows what percentage of GDP.
I guess we should just give till it hurts?then give some more.
