Having half the country w/ no skin in the game when it comes to the Federal budget & deficit is a massive problem and moral hazard. The lack of any consequences for them financially creates a massive disincentive to vote for fiscally responsible candidates. But not like you care, you just spam the site w/ your useless copy and paste posts.

Low income people have plenty of skin in the game. They pay FICA (social security), Medicare, state income taxes, sales taxes, and a myriad of other fees. The reason low income people pay no FEDERAL INCOME TAXES is because after they take the EXACT SAME EXEMPTIONS AND DEDUCTIONS that YOU take, their income is below the threshhold required for federal income tax. They are not "tax evaders", they just earn to little to have to pay tax. People like you astound me, because it seems you would switch places with a low-income struggling person JUST so you wouldn't have to pay income tax!

Ojo you claim to buy your health insurance as an individual. Every penny of that is tax deductible right off the top, lowering your tax rate. Do you consider that you have no skin in the game?

Bellair, you are a fool. Everyone in this country who actually pays taxes has all sorts of deductions and we all have skin in the game b/c we still end up paying income taxes at the end of the day. Half of us pay so that the other half can complain they aren't getting enough even though they don't put in a dime of their own money and that just isn't fair to the rest of us.

Ojo, or Conjunctivitis, are you backing off your original claim now? You're sounding like Mitt!

No you sub 200 SAT scoring gas pumping product of the public school system. I pay income taxes even after every deduction I take. Half of this country doesn't pay income taxes. Period, end of story.

Where's your tax returns, Conjunctivitis-Mitt?

Conjunctivitis, here are some of your 47% with n skin in the game:

According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, some 3,000 of the 76 million taxpayers that were expected to pay no federal income taxes in 2011 were members of Romney's cohort, making nearly $2.2 million per year, which puts them in the top 0.1 percent income bracket.

Another 24,000 taxpayers expected to pay no income taxes last year were in the top 1 percent income bracket, according to the TPC, making between $532,613 and $2.2 million per year.

B@B - Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do w/ the Federal Budget or deficit. Those are on the other side of a budgetary wall. So no, if you don't pay income taxes then you have absolutely no skin in the game when it comes to the Federal Budget or deficit. You have less than no skin in the game if you get any sort of refund or payment in excess of whatever was withheld by your employer for income taxes like w/ respect to the EITC.

Oh, and here is a little history on the budgetary treatment of Social Security if you care to learn a little something. It may not be politically convenient for you though to absorb this little snippet of historical information on Social Security's budgetary treatment.
http://www.ssa.gov/history/BudgetTreatment.html

Stew, the only one thats going to kill this country is obummer the idiot because his whole agenda is about destroying our economy and making us all dependent on the government for a living. Thats why there are more people on food stamps than ever before and thats why many don't want to lose what they have, so they vote for him to keep the goodies coming, they don't have to work then. Its just another way of buying votes as he did when he gave 12 million illegal alien amnesty, all for the votes.

This jerk is dangerous to this country and is out to hurt this country and our economy and he is a traitor and needs to go.

I love the work the tea party is doing and I will be out to vote for Romney to save this country and our economy before obummer destroys it.

And I guess Obama will only answer 1% according to your logic.

I think you mean 99% Jack.

No, he'll just skirt around them and ask us to trust him. Trust is earned and he hasn't earned mine.

TARP also included a ton of money to bailout the UAW through investments in GM & Chrysler (that were used to fund their pension and healthcare plans) and we will never get fully repaid on that portion of TARP no matter how much in profits TARP makes off the banks.

The headline is true. First, I made no mention of who was responsible for the TARP. While Bush did sign it, it was approved by Congress, which Obama voted for. 50% of the funding was distributed by the Obama administration. That aside, the article is about how the President continues to spin to mislead the public. I know this may not agree with the left's mantra that only the Republicans lie, but let's be honest here folks. Just like the victory lap for 7.8% unemployment, the dismantling of Al-Qaeda...

The US Government specified how the UAW workers, pension plan and retiree health plans were to be treated in the GM & Chrysler bankruptcies as a condition for any further TARP money. Obama dictated the results of that bankruptcy specifically to help the UAW, took sides against all the other creditors and backed the UAW. And note that I am specifically saying he helped out the UAW. If you were a member of a different union or a salaried worked and not part of a union at all, you were as disenfranchised as all the other creditors by the administration. So it is completely incorrect to say TARP has nothing to do w/ the UAW benefit plans or Obama had no hand in how the UAW was treated when the GM & Chrysler transactions were negotiated over at the White House and he was using the threat of not providing any TARP money to help either company to force everyone to agree to the UAW's demands for far better treatment than they were legally entitled to in a traditional bankruptcy.

And you know who's pensions got crushed thanks to Obama and the UAW? All the non-union workers got crushed, crushed by Obama and the UAW.

Deleted, check the records. Obama was still a sitting Senator when the TARP was passed and he voted for it.

Unfortunately Government Motors owes the employee pension fund more money than GM is worth right now. Thats shows the kind of thieves they are just like this admin. and obummer.

Well written but a bit too long. How's this - "they're all drinking from Obama's Kool-Aid pitcher".

It would be and can be very amusing, the arrogance they show, if it was not to the peril of us ALL!! It is amazing each lib could cancel out a true thinkers and lovers of this country vote.
Every conservative must go out and VOTE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2de-yRHY1Y

No. Liberals make up their own history to match their inflated belief system. Liberals are just wrong. Simple as that. Have no sense of the Constitution and call it a living document. The ideology of the left is a tangible mental illness. The Liberal has an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration.” This seems in tune with the fact that liberals, along with their degenerate offspring, the Occupy Wall Street movement, believe their policies and platforms fall in the majority. The 99% if you will, despite being outnumbered by conservatives at a 2-1. How about Obamacare as another example. The measure was opposed by likely voters by a wide margin, 54-41 percent. Yet it was still rammed down the collective throats of the American people. Why? Because liberals honestly thought that once the plebeians had a chance to see their ideas, they would go along with it. Proof of this materialized when Nancy Pelosi uttered these famous words: “… We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”

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Anderson Cooper calls out Romney for claiming ‘blog posts’ are tax plan studies

Yes I agree. President Obama's plan is so much better. Borrow trillion's from China to give to people who have made a living milking the government of money and free healthcare and food stamps and housing and everything else..... including phones. I'm not talking about hard working individuals that are now out of work. I am talking about millions of welchers who have not and will not work while they breed out of control to more of the same. Thats the real problem. We have to change or the country is doomed.

Obummer never even had a plan and still doesn't, he keeps following plans from past Presidents that failed and he thinks because he put them out there now, they are going to work this time. He hasn't got the brains God gave a 2 year old child, except to know how to destroy this country and then throw Isreal under a bus and leave them out there hanging by themselves. I Netenyahu's own words, " Isreal will not be here in ten years" because he knows obummer along with Iran will see it destroyed, and obummer take over as a dictator of what used to be America.