Perhaps the democrats were trying to stop the fiscal rape of your children and grandchildren by Bush and the republicans. Alas, they failed. Your moral and patriotic "leaders" passed a tax cut package the overwhelming benefit of which will go to the top 1% of wage earners and the cost of which will be passed on to your children and grandchildren. While well-intentioned people like you are cheering them madly, youur so-called "allies" in the White House and republican congressional majority are stealing your wallet. Wake up, before it's too late!

Logic test...Congress passes a tax cut and steals your wallet.

I suspect that the democrats were too busy disagreeing with everything to show up at a meeting, where they might just be asked to discuss their plan.

phil, economics is not a zero-sum game. A whole hell of a lot mroe people have been put in the poor house paying taxes than by not paying taxes. If your so worried about deficits, why not cut some spending? Indoor rainforests, bridges to nowhere, countless structures named after Robert Byrd, a dead-end 'pension' system called social security, and an ad-hoc nationalized health care program called 'medicare' might be nice places to start

Let me tell you a dirty little secret that, because you're all a bunch of knee-jerk wingnuts you won't believe: I've never paid an effective tax rate below the mid-20s and never above the low-30s.

This is in spite of having a huge variation in my income, and I'm not talking the difference between, say, $5,000 a year and $50,000 a year either. The fact is that the U.S. tax system is very flat when you count everything, and for all the bitching by both the liberals and the conservatives there has been very little change in what people really pay.

Taxes are one of the most over-discussed issues on the planet by all concerned.

"Let me tell you a dirty little secret that, because you're all a bunch of knee-jerk wingnuts you won't believe"

No, if we don't believe you it's because we've seen you post before.

THE REAL REASON FOR THE WAR

Interestingly enough, Saddam tried to do this shortly before the Liar in Chief attacked him. Ditto for Chavez in Venezuela before Bush tried the coup d'etat. Russia's doing a little bit of it, and suddenly we hear of "tensions." No more of the Liar in Chief saying how he looked into Putin's eyes and saw into his heart.

And Iran? Ever since they made their announcement, there have been growing hints that we just might nuke 'em. And just what is the sin they all have in common? Read and find out:

http://w3t.org/?u=f4k

New conspiracy theory ...

Wilson, heavily invested in Euros in anticipation of the changes he has reported on above, lost his shirt when the President mucked all this up -- as he prevented Saddam & Sons from enabling terrorists with WMD while liberating 25 million Iraqis.

So, he has joined with fellow currency-speculator George Soros to exact his revenge, by trashing this President by all available means ... sound principle and the "facts on the ground" be damned.

Sounds just as plausible as OIF being corporate welfare for Halliburton and ExxonMobil, doesn't it?

You need a new tinfoil hat, Wilson -- the old one is scrambling the signals that are bringing you your talking points.