wSJ conservative op ed says Repubs have lost the payroll tax issue.

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GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest.

The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play.

Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting Mr. Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter, although he's spent most of his Presidency promoting tax increases and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013. This should be impossible.

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If the economy is in better shape by summertime and the GOP fails to renew the payroll tax cut, I think Obama has it in the bag, which is quite pathetic considering the election was basically handed to the GOP on a silver platter. It was theirs to win, but they've blown it.
 
The sole reason why the Democrats want this tax break is because it moves them closer to their goal of having more than 50% of potential voters pay no taxes and therefore beholden to the party that give then the freebies. Until the GOP exposes this strategy and illustrates simply the inevitable demise of democracy they will continue to lose important elections.
 
The problem is that Republicans convulse at the idea of raising taxes for the top one percent, they drag their feet on saving middle income earners about 40 dollars a pay check. There are over 20,000 tweets where people talk about what 40 dollars means to them. The Republicans are going to vote to extend it anyway, this just outs a fine point on the fact they will fuck with middle class Americans in an attempt to gain political advantage.
 
Also, your statement that "democrats want this" is betrayed by the fact that only 7 Repubs in the Senate voted against the extension.
 
The reason why Repubs voted for this is because they lack the balls to expose the truth of the Democrat's true agenda. This is especially true in the Senate which is woefully lacking in true fiscal conservatives.
 
DamnYankee said:
The sole reason why the Democrats want this tax break is because it moves them closer to their goal of having more than 50% of potential voters pay no taxes and therefore beholden to the party that give then the freebies. Until the GOP exposes this strategy and illustrates simply the inevitable demise of democracy they will continue to lose important elections.
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Sure, DY. Just like the citizens in every country with a government medical plan adamantly insisting the plan be maintained. Those poor communistic Australians and Canadians and English and French and the Italians and the Germans and the Norwegians and the Swiss and the ...........all those poor people yearning for the good, old "pay or suffer" medical system they previously had.

Please, pass a tissue. I'm getting tear-y-eyed.
 
You see Soc in order to achieve stability everyone first has to have skin in the game. Until that happens folks that don't pay taxes have no incentive to tell their congressman to stop spending and every incentive to vote for guys that spend. That's the main reason why both parties have continued to grow government over the last 90 years and why the debt is so high that we are heading straight into financial insolvency.

Its like having a credit card that someone else has to pay for. Sooner or later the shit will hit the fan and it won't be the rich guy getting burned, but the poor fool who planned his life on the freebies.

A GOP candidate will be successful if he can articulate this to the public. Since the average IQ is 100 the message has to be very simple.
 
apple0154 said:
Sure, DY. Just like the citizens in every country with a government medical plan adamantly insisting the plan be maintained. Those poor communistic Australians and Canadians and English and French and the Italians and the Germans and the Norwegians and the Swiss and the ...........all those poor people yearning for the good, old "pay or suffer" medical system they previously had.

Please, pass a tissue. I'm getting tear-y-eyed.
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Thanks for proving my point. You're a useful fool not just to your beloved Democrats but to me as well.
 
Imperator Julius Caesar said:
If the economy is in better shape by summertime and the GOP fails to renew the payroll tax cut, I think Obama has it in the bag, which is quite pathetic considering the election was basically handed to the GOP on a silver platter. It was theirs to win, but they've blown it.
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. It's starting to look that way! :)
 
DamnYankee said:
You see Soc in order to achieve stability everyone first has to have skin in the game. Until that happens folks that don't pay taxes have no incentive to tell their congressman to stop spending and every incentive to vote for guys that spend. That's the main reason why both parties have continued to grow government over the last 90 years and why the debt is so high that we are heading straight into financial insolvency.

Its like having a credit card that someone else has to pay for. Sooner or later the shit will hit the fan and it won't be the rich guy getting burned, but the poor fool who planned his life on the freebies.

A GOP candidate will be successful if he can articulate this to the public. Since the average IQ is 100 the message has to be very simple.
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Yet you supported going trillions more in debt to take out Saddam?
 
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