Once the tax door has been opened there is no way to close it.  Both political parties have worked together to increase taxes.  There is no difference between the two except during election years where we hear their lies.

Reagan as a model, Marcus?

In 1986, the cuts in tax expenditures were made politically attractive by combining them with tax rate reductions. Although such rate cuts cannot be afforded now, there is currently widespread public agreement that the deficit must be reduced, and a growing acceptance that cuts in government spending are the way to do it.

Guess whose tax rates were reduced in 86?  Is Marcus’ real agenda to extend the tax breaks on the rich?

I hope Amy Goodman replaces Marcus as a female blogger on this site.  Marcus is intolerable.

theobannion:

Democracy doesn’t exist because too many American voters are ignorant, uninformed or absent at elections. Thus propaganda and demagoguery decide our elections, that wrought by Republicans and permitted by intimidated and self-serving Dems.

Stupidity and indolence are rendering our democracy invalid.

The archival footage of Boehner’s pronouncements should be tapped every time he speaks to the economy.

Put everything on the table, just like a Chinese menu [the allusion to our prime lender ought to be noted]; Column A - Social programs, Column B - Corporate subsidies. Then Mr Leader, talk to the nation about socialism. I’d be spellbound over a bowl of popcorn.

It is every politician’s duty to bring federal money home to their district. That’s the way our federal government works, unfortunately. The very first thing every president since Ronald Reagan (at least) has done, is to pass a spending Bill. I would argue, that if you want to take the “money out of politics”, take the money away from government.

Boner, like most politicians, talk a very good game, and tell people exactly what they want to hear. Unfortunately, what they say, and what they do, are almost always, two different things.

Go ahead Ruth, if you feel as if the government needs more money, pony up. No ones
stopping you.

But I have a better idea. Why not make the export of jobs over seas illegal. That way
American workers can pay taxes on their income instead of getting unemployment.

Or here’s another one why not charge American corporations a head tax on each
foreign worker they employ?

But you and your bosses won’t be in favor of that one will you? Or why not bring the
troops back home from all our plutocratic wars, and close our bases over seas, the
people can no longer afford the plutocracies new world Oder.

The bottom line is you can’t have freedom when your politicians believe in slavery.
It’s time the rich paid their way.

Take the cap off social security and institute a flat tax and please quit nickle and dimeing me to death on every thing I use.

Nobody kid themselves, please.  The only reason Boehner is saying anything like this is that he’s up for re-election.  Watch his resolve on this completely evaporate after November.

Quote:  “Don’t even think about touching my mortgage interest deduction, state and local tax deduction, charitable giving deduction, child care tax credit, flexible health spending account, 401(k), IRA, college spending account, employer-sponsored health care ... well, you get the point.”

Well, one point is, the tax deductions mentioned above are almost entirely small amounts accruing to the lower and middle class.So if such deductions are cut, that means less coming back to the lower/
middles.

Furthermore, take an idem like deductions for charitable giving—a pretty small amount for me, necessarily, but for corporations, a big amount considering the amounts millions they give, usually just to get rid of it.
  Just because a percentage is equal doesn’t mean the justice of it is equal.  Taxes ought to be levied in sliding scale percentages with much more coming from the very wealthy who, as it is now, sink millions into thinktanks and tax-free locations in order to avoid paying “more than their share” (though taking more than their share doesn’t seem to bother them much.)
  Or am I misunderstanding?

Two goals for tax-cuts—to redistribute wealth to the rich and reduce the size of social programs—have nothing to do with economics. They have all to do with ideology, which has the plutocratic agenda.