"Feel free to whack me over the head because I probably will not compromise on that part,"

[underpants]

According to two Republican aides familiar with Obama's Capitol Hill meeting, Rep. Dave Camp, R-Michigan, the ranking member on the Ways and Means committee, asked Obama if there was room for negotiation on the structure of the biggest tax cut in the bill.

"Feel free to whack me over the head because I probably will not compromise on that part," the president replied, according to one of the aides, who requested anonymity because the member of Congress relaying information to the aide from inside the meeting wished to remain anonymous.

Obama supports the tax rebates for those who don't pay income taxes because they do pay payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare.

"The president said again that people that pay payroll tax are taxpayers," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said later. " ... And he just mentioned that the notion that refundability of tax credits for those that don't make a lot of money was a principle that not only he holds, but one that Ronald Reagan held with the Earned Income Tax Credit in the '80s."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/27/obama.meetings/index.html

:bounce: The American public is about to be re-educated on ALL the "taxes" they pay not just income tax :bounce:

I LOVE IT

[DBoon]

1. look up the "negative income tax"

interesting pedigree - proposed by Milton Friedman, almost adopted by Richard Nixon

[bunnies]

2. Wait a minute...

I just realized something. Am I one of those people who 'doesnt pay taxes' ? I was out of work most of the year last year - so I'll get all my tax money back. I am one of those non-tax payers the republicans keep shitting on?

[Vinca]

3. Why, I think you are. How does it feel to be subhuman?

Republicans want to victimize the people who need help the most.

[bunnies]

4. You know...

I'd like to see those fuckers live of the ten bucks an hour I'm currently making at a job thats WAY beneath me because I had to take *something*.

So what that I used to make 60k a year. So what that I've paid taxes all my life. I have a shit job now and they want to take what little money I have away from me?!

To hell with them. Man I really wish I believed in hell. At least Id get some comfort thinking they'd suffer for eternity. Them in their big fat houses with their big fat health care and their big fat blathering mouths.

Ugh. I'm so pissed off right now.

[underpants]

5. You are clearly part of the problem

If you had been a good citizen you wouldn't have lost your job (waves hand) don't need to know WHY or HOW that happened it is your duty to NOT make that happen.

:sarcasm:

[bunnies]

7. Good point.

If I hadnt screwed up the economy so badly, I might still have that job at the global private equity firm. Im such a LOSER.

:hi:

[WinkyDink]

6. That's so "Christian" of them!