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Unless there is some big surprise at the end of this year (2013), my withholdings have increased by nearly $40 per week this year so far, without my wages or W4 status changing.

Or is this what the "vast majority" of voters really want?

http://www.thecomingattack.com/russian-official-ob...

Eliminating deductions for wealthy people will also eliminate the standard deduction we little people enjoy as well.

I keep hearing people saying the rich are stealing from the poor, usually from liberals. I don't understand. Is it money? They're poor, so they don't have money, by definition. Is it labor? If they have a job, they are being paid, and have the choice not to stay employed. If they don't have a job, and are poor, and are receiving entitlement benefits, I would think it is those poor who are stealing from the rich. What is it?

when the money they "invest" comes from the economy in the first place, and printed money only dilutes the value of the money in the economy?

AND for raising taxes, AND for unions, AND for increased energy prices?

Our original independence was based on taxation without representation. These days it appears that the opposite is occurring, as in no-taxation, but with representation (for a growing body of people). Wouldn't a solution be to reserve the right to vote for taxpayers only? After all, we are voting for representatives whose jobs are to handle our tax dollars.

Private sector businesses have been leaning out their processes, reducing expenditures, and laying off people to stay afloat in this economy. Why isn't the government required to do the same, especially since the government is a large part of the problem in the first place? Larger economy, larger government. Smaller economy, smaller government. Why is it the opposite? It is not the job of the federal government to provide jobs to jobless people.

would the poor (who were once rich) want to tax the rich (who were once poor), or would the rich (who were once poor) say "it's our turn now"? OR Would the poor (who were once rich) rise above the challenge, and become rich again, while the rich (who were once poor) just dwindled the wealth away?

I have heard this many times from liberals, and have never heard a real answer, other than they think that money magically produced by the government, and not something that is earned by ingenuity or hard work, productivity, and expansion of the private sector.

They say we should embrace Islam, and not to fear Muslims, yet they will censor a cartoon, or promote or defend the building of a mosque, for fear of retaliation from Muslims.

And if the goal is to reduce pollution, will the stock value decline as pollution is reduced?

Would this company qualify for a bail out if pollution was eliminated?

Why is this question in this category? - Vested interest by our politicians

http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/

Wouldn't it be easier if they just got a reduction in pay? Do welfare recipients pay income tax as well?

If I took a portion of my check, say $10, paid someone $1 to keep it for a week, then apply the leftover $9 to my next check, what sense does this make? Now I have to take another $10 out of the $9 I got back, so basically, I'm paying the IRS $1/week in this example, not to mention, they are probably doing the same with their taxpayer supplied incomes as well.

Every government job is paid for by taxpayer dollars, taken out of paychecks from the private sector, just like unemployment is taken out. How can we consider a government job a "created" job, when actually it has taken someone off of the private sector job count?

Doesn't the US have the largest and wealthiest lower and middle class in the world? I have heard that if you make just $30K/year, you are in the top 7% wealthiest in the world. Isn't this due, at least in part, to the government providing tax relief to businesses, large or small, which in turn pass these tax breaks, in the form of reduced costs, on to the consumer?

I can understand entitlements costing money, as they are expenditures, but I don't understand how reducing revenue increases cost. If I get a pay cut, I must reduce expenditures or I go broke. My pay cut would not "cost" me anything, but I would have to adjust my budget by reducing expenditures.