Ezra Klein: The Gang of Six's plan: Better than we're likely to do otherwise

The Gang of Six's plan: Better than we're likely to do otherwise

This from the guy who went on MSNBC last night to declare that the President will cave!

What a joke!

No increase in corporate taxes. The top rate stays at 29 percent. The middle-class takes a huge hit in deductibles.



This is Hope and Change? Both sides holding the federal government hostage to produce this abomination. This is just an attack on what's left of the American middle-class so that the very wealthy and their global banks and multinational corporations can keep what they have already grabbed. They can stick it.

It was 39% under Clinton. Obama swore he would not allow those rates to stay the same or go lopwer. This Gang of Six apparently is suggesting that the rates not only not go back up to what they were before Bush* came along but to lower them another 10%... Progressive Taxation is being done away with under our very eyes...Under a Democratic Administration to boot.

you will find he has outfoxed them all even though appearances will suggest he hasn't, but he will have, and you will understand all at the appointed future date. All Hail!

resist the final stages of takeover and shakedown.

If this actually comes to pass as The Grand Deal, everything changes.

I suppose the globalists want it gone so that they can prosper.

Yep.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

But the same can be said of a pile of horseshit!

Yesterday he said that the McYertle 4-Debt Ceiling Plan with a permanent Dubya tax cuts for fake S-corp "small businesses", some with $30 Billion in revenue like Bechtel, was going to be the best we could get.

If Obama just threatens them to invoke the 14th Amendment--even if he doesn't do it--will give us the revenues we need.
Hint, hint!

:argh:

Dead. Dead. Dead.

I meant that he's right that it's the Catfood Commission proposal, but I think we can do better.

What's your opinion on the "Gang of Six" proposal?

What's your opinion on the "Gang of Six" proposal?

It's not the "best we're likely to do." It sucks!

Good to know.

A bit of consensus gathering without any political support. A show. Level 5 in the 8th Dimensional Chess game. Now we're at 13.

Finally dawning on you? This is what Obama wanted all along.

how could I forget. Do you remember that the proposal failed to pass? Do you remember that Andy Stern, one of the members chosen by the President, opposed the final draft.

Remember?

this sort of outcome wasn't inevitable after Q3 '08?

Nothing new under the sun.

find a single statement on the page you linked saying that Klein thinks that the plan is "better than we're likely to do otherwise".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-gang-of-sixs-plan-better-than-were-likely-to-do-otherwise/2011/07/19/gIQAXjZROI_blog.html



I'm not entirely sold on his analysis, but he comes out and says it in the headline and in the body of the post.

find function on my browser and couldn't find it.

But now it's there after clicking through to your link to the actual article, rather than the blog front. Thanks.

and it had updated by the time you and I got to it maybe? I don't know.

it just needed more time than I gave it because all I was getting each time is the "Reconciliation" headline and excerpt and next the "The Gang of Six’s framework" one. It wasn't even in the latest posts sidebar.

Oh well, prolly just a loading hiccup or something. Who knows :shrug:

As for the Klein article, I really have no comment as I need to brush up on Simpson-Bowles after, what, a year plus since it was daily fare.

to be SURRENDERING "we the people" for WHAT?? I've been vocal about my disappointment, loud and clear for quite some time!

Now I'm MORE THAN OUTRAGED! And for ANYONE HERE, ANYONE to say this is somehow THE BEST HE CAN DO, must be some kind of NUTS!

I won't even say out loud HERE what I'm really thinking because I KNOW there are too many here who have also sold out and will have me TS'd!

So be it, but this is just too much! It's been leaning this way for a very, very long time and each time there are MORE EXCUSES. What the hell is wrong, just what the hell is wrong that WE MUST have this kind of CRAP shoved up our asses?

I'm logging off and going to stick my head in the sand, along with so many others! Guess I can find something STUPID to watch on TV because right now I STILL HAVE A DISH! Must be some old re-runs of Everybody Loves Raymond or something! It's all I can stand for right now! At least I'll actually be laughing at something that's REALLY funny, as opposed to laughing AT something that's REALLY horrible!

INSANE, just INSANE!