Why do Obama supporters keep saying Bush's tax cuts only helped the rich?

Your'e right. The Bush tax cuts cut 4% off of every single tax payers bill. The increase in child deduction was for people who made less than 75k- so it actually helped the under 75k crowd more than the over 75k crowd if they had kids. As for helping the businesses after 9/11 that was a good move- can you imagine if he hadn't? The Obots do not understand much of anything in my opinion. Also if Obama removes the Bush tax cuts, won't that hurt the poor & middle class the most????

Edit: To GJL- no one is stopping you from paying more taxes- in fact the government would welcome your contribution, and Obama will give it to someone- probably someone who is on crack.

Where? Who said that? Of course tax cuts helped all of us, but the rich were able to obtain more of the wealth in America than everyother income bracket, while on average the middle class lost out (real wages stagnated, while the cost of living went way up. The cost of living going up had a lot to do with oil speculation, which drove the cost of oil up, which benefitted Exxon Mobile.). Remember this is an average, so there will be outliers on both sides of the standard deviation. You might be one of those outliers.

In the meantime, we are borrowing from China to pay for Iraq, so your children will be less well off than you when the bill finally comes due. There has been little attention paid to infrastructure, and its crumbling, so your tax cut should have gone to keep our bridges and roads from crumbling.

I make a pretty good living, but I feel I'm not paying enough tax, and my president isn't asking me to sacrifice in the way FDR did during the World War. You can't have government services WITHOUT PAYING FOR THEM (did you get on an airplane this year? Who paid for the security to keep terrorists off our plane...the government did.)

Hi Ruppster!

I just want to know who are all of these people not paying their taxes? Do they not work? How the bloody heck do they get away with that? I'm totally serious, I don't understand how people don't pay taxes. I've been paying taxes like mad, believe me, I made a dent in the national debt (ok, maybe a door ding), when my Mom died, Uncle Sam had his hand out, and it friggin' hurt, but I sent him his big fat check, because that's what you do, or so I thought.

Anyway, to answer, it's probably a tunnel vision thing. People want to see things the way they want to see them. The 'all' or 'always' thing is almost 'always' an exaggeration. Or perhaps they are repeating what they heard from others? I don't know.

Take care!

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Its rediculious, Just like how everyone is blaming bush for whats going on with the Loan/housing crisis in our country now. If you look back to the Clinton years it was him that made it easier for people who couldnt afford to get loans to get them... he made it easier for minorities with low incomes to get loans easier. It was all fall out of the Clinton years... Im not a huge fan of Bush but I will tell you this.. Obama with all his high hopes and promisses is only going to bring this country further down. You know all the mom and pop business he will put out when he imposes his "every employer must offer insurance" polices. I know a few business myself. My husband Makes slightly more then what Obama says is the TOP 5% and we employee plenty of people. I have people who cut my grass. My husband highers day laboroers everyday to take out to job sights and while I have been sick I have highered a Cleaning person to help me around the house every other week. If Obamas tax plan goes into effect I wont be able to do any of those things. Should I not be able to have those things? Because my husband chooses to work 17 hour days to make a decent living... maybe he should have to share his money... Maybe he should be penilized for being a hard worker .We are also by no means "rich" either. This election makes me sick. Obama is a typical actor... sounds good, looks good... you know... Id like to say Barack... you can put lipstick on a pig...... but you know how it goes!

Also, Id like to add its absolutely insain that someone somehow thinks that someone making half what one makes pays more tax... youve lost your mind and you are truely a jealous person... take a person making a million dollars a year... you think he pays the same tax at resturaunts when hes out spending more... do you think he doesnt pay more tax for his home that cost more... or how about his cars... that probably cost more... and his big screen tvs and boats and vacation homes, or just vacations in general, his clothes and so on.... what about all that hes contributing... instead...make it where people cant afford luxuries. If you are talking strictly about income tax... first off he wouldnt pay less and even if he somehow did... who cares he contibutes way more to tax for other things!

It's not that we said it only helps the rich

It's just that's who it was made to help the most.

By the way Obama is giving a tax deudction to the middle class. McCain is not

Because the world does not revolve around you? If you go to the tax tables and people who analyze this stuff will tell you that. And by the way, we don't say Bush's tax cuts went *only* to the rich, they just went disproportionately to the rich, or we say that the budget was wrecked because Bush cut taxes on his wealthy friends.

He took 3 million people from the tax roles. And still the losers want more.....

Now along with not taxing them, they want Obama to give them welfare checks too. And he's more than willing to implement new socialist wealth redistribution to achieve it.

what bush's tax cut do is give big corporations options to move there business elsehwere and avoid paying taxes all together.. and that hurts you and me, so instead of lots of companies paying taxes, all of american misses out on that money, and they are big companies so its a lot of loot..

Tell me this, how the f&*^ has bush helped any.....person in the middle class?? WHy would u vote for a party that wants to make it easier for the rich to hide their money?? Why not vote for the guy who wants to give the middle class more money to spend on those rich mofos???

because it only did help the rich! why did the annual income go down by 7,000 a year when bush was in office? he dont care about middle class cause he aint middle class! he dont struggle for anything! why would he care about those who do?