Why do Cons laugh at the $13/paycheck tax savings under Obama?

Bush had it wrong and Obama has it wrong. In times of crisis you have to cut taxes AND cut spending. Neither president has done or is doing that. The current stimulus is 35% tax cuts, 65% spending. We are STILL overtaxed and spending too much. All of this equates to a mountain of debt and folks still struggling to make ends meet. All the while, the gov't gets bigger. We're in deep doo-doo with this guy. Overhauling Congress at the mid-term elections would be our best hope at this point.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that conservatives on this site were howling that Obama was going to raise taxes.

Republicans have always used tax cuts as bait for votes. What they don't tell you is that a lot of people used those checks to pay down debt. The money went to banks, the very same bunch that did so much to put the economy into the mess it's in right now.

Same reason why Michelle Obama laughed at Bush's $600 tax rebate.

"Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan, Wednesday that if her husband is elected he will offer more than a "quick fix" on the economy.

"You're getting $600 - what can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month," she said. "The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings."

Your figures are wrong...It's an 800.00/ 400.00 for singles stimulus payment under Obama...divied up over paychecks so it helps to stimulate the economy and doesn't just sit in bank accounts. It is FAR more than Bush provided, not that it matters. People complaining about $13 are the same people who keep saying that all we want is 'handouts'. If they weren't all about 'handouts' they wouldn't be complaining about $13 per week being too little money.

Why is amazing. You are right on the money with this one. Its a good thing everyone gets 26 paychecks a year, instead of just 12.

Drummer, I'm a single guy, And received $ 600 from Bush, Under Obama I will receive $400 and I will receive it in $13 in my pay check WHEN I start working again , Which to me as an unemployed guy is absolutely useless, So your information is incorrect.. God bless.

Under the Bush package I received $2000. And none of my tax money went to save mice.

Please, don't lump all of us "Cons" in one heap. I'm a 59 year old Conservative Republican and don't laugh at ANYTHING that makes my paychecks a bit bigger, even though it's nicer getting the money in 1 lump sum.

I'm just sorry that Congress screwed things up so badly that they now have to "Stimulate" the economy by stealing from our grand and great-grand children.

Yes, I said Congress, Not President!

The Bush stimulus was a sick joke. Other sick jokes include: the bank bailout and the new "stimulus".

If government spending isn't reduced then I do not know what is going to happen to us.

All they do is spend money that we do not have.

think of it this way that a better than a 3% raise because a 3% raise in one years = to 20.00 net every 2week..