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FORD
03-21-2013, 02:22 PM
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7 million new jobs in one year

$4.4 trillion in deficit reduction

We’re in a jobs crisis that isn’t going away. Millions of hard-working American families are falling behind, and the richest 1 percent is taking home a bigger chunk of our nation’s gains every year. Americans face a choice: we can either cut Medicare benefits to pay for more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, or we can close these tax loopholes to invest in jobs. We choose investment. The Back to Work Budget invests in America’s future because the best way to reduce our long-term deficit is to put America back to work. In the first year alone, we create nearly 7 million American jobs and increase GDP by 5.7%. We reduce unemployment to near 5% in three years with a jobs plan that includes repairing our nation’s roads and bridges, and putting the teachers, cops and firefighters who have borne the brunt of our economic downturn back to work. We reduce the deficit by $4.4 trillion by closing tax loopholes and asking the wealthy to pay a fair share. We repeal the arbitrary sequester and the Budget Control Act that are damaging the economy, and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, which provide high quality, low-cost medical coverage to millions of Americans when they need it most. This is what the country voted for in November. It’s time we side with America’s middle class and invest in their future.



The Economic Policy Institute Policy Center provided technical assistance in developing, scoring, modeling, and analyzing the Back to Work budget. EPI’s analysis can be seen here: The ‘Back to Work’ budget: Analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget for fiscal year 2014

Job Creation

• Infrastructure – substantially increases infrastructure investment to the level the American Society of Civil Engineers says is necessary to close our infrastructure needs gap

• Education – funds school modernizations and rehiring laid-off teachers

• Aid to States – closes the recession-caused gap in state budgets for two years, allowing the rehiring of cops, firefighters, and other public employees

• Making Work Pay – boosts consumer demand by reinstating an expanded tax credit for three years

• Emergency Unemployment Compensation – allows beneficiaries to claim up to 99 weeks of unemployment benefits in high-unemployment states for two years

• Public Works Job Programs and Aid to Distressed Communities – includes job programs such as a Park Improvement Corps, Student Jobs Corps, and Child Care Corps


Fair Individual Tax

• Immediately allows Bush tax cuts to expire for families earning over $250K

• Higher tax rates for millionaires and billionaires (from 45% to 49%)

• Taxes income from investments the same as income from wages

Fair Corporate Tax

• Ends corporate tax bias toward moving jobs and profits overseas

• Enacts a financial transactions tax

• Reduces deductions for corporate jets, meals, and entertainment


Defense

• Returns Pentagon spending to 2006 levels, focusing on modern security needs


Health Care

• No benefit cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security

• Reduces health care costs by adopting a public option, negotiating drug prices, and reducing fraud


Environment

• Prices carbon pollution with a rebate to hold low income households harmless

• Eliminates corporate tax subsidies for oil, gas, and coal companies

FORD
03-21-2013, 02:38 PM
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Nitro Express
03-21-2013, 02:49 PM
It looks somewhat appealing but they never do what they say they are going to do. Where are the shovel ready jobs Obama promised? He gave more money to the banks and continued warmongering instead of putting people to work here fixing the crumbling infrastructure. He's wasting money on ammunition and sending money to dictators in Egypt that could be put to better use.

jacksmar
03-21-2013, 03:00 PM
Poll should read:

Do you support "The New Social Order"?

Ryan is an asshole. Murray is a dumb cunt. Ubama still manifesting his April shit shower.

Reagan taught us deficits do not matter. Dick Cheney.

Dempons= more debt.

Repukes=more debt.

How many assholes does it take to piss away 100 trillion+ dollars? Ask your congressman.

FORD
03-21-2013, 03:43 PM
Poll should read:

Do you support "The New Social Order"?

Ryan is an asshole. Murray is a dumb cunt. Ubama still manifesting his April shit shower.


And none of them have anything to do with this budget.

This is from actual Democrats in the House, not false Democrats in the Senate, or anyone in the White House.

Good to know that you realize Eddie Munster is an asshole though.

Nitro Express
03-21-2013, 03:52 PM
Poll should read:

Do you support "The New Social Order"?

Ryan is an asshole. Murray is a dumb cunt. Ubama still manifesting his April shit shower.

Reagan taught us deficits do not matter. Dick Cheney.

Dempons= more debt.

Repukes=more debt.

How many assholes does it take to piss away 100 trillion+ dollars? Ask your congressman.

Exactly. Both Donkeys and Elephants stink. Go to a zoo sometime and you will see what I'm talking about. Washington DC is just one big stinky expensive zoo.

jacksmar
03-21-2013, 04:20 PM
Just came back 2 weeks ago from DC. It's a first class shithole. Not worthy of the fallen military buried there.

They live in compartments, not apartments. They live like roaches. It's dirty. The beltway is fucked. The water smells. The buildings are filthy.

It's third world atmosphere everywhere. Assholes that have over stayed their H1B visas. Dangerous to travel and stop at night.

DC is the problem with the US; magnified.

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Nitro Express
03-21-2013, 04:38 PM
Just came back 2 weeks ago from DC. It's a first class shithole. Not worthy of the fallen military buried there.

They live in compartments, not apartments. They live like roaches. It's dirty. The beltway is fucked. The water smells. The buildings are filthy.

It's third world atmosphere everywhere. Assholes that have over stayed their H1B visas. Dangerous to travel and stop at night.

DC is the problem with the US; magnified.

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I always stayed across the river in Arlington or Alexandria. It's nice on that side. Washington DC has been a corrupt, infested mess as long as I can remember. It's the only town I know of that had a crack addict for a mayor.

jacksmar
03-21-2013, 04:56 PM
And none of them have anything to do with this budget.

This is from actual Democrats in the House, not false Democrats in the Senate, or anyone in the White House.

Good to know that you realize Eddie Munster is an asshole though.

TARD, you worthless idiot, the government doesn't get to pick who and what to tax in a real budget. This budget addresses fringe issues, social issues.

Any budget that doesn't balance in the current year is shit. Got it? Any budget that cuts in the "out years" is shit. Got it?

This budget works from the assumption that the US economy is solvent.

Let me simplify, again, for the people that do not understand this: You can't have an actual budget based on debt.

Does this require more info? Outlays on these bullshit budgets are where the the lies meet the wallet.

FORD
03-21-2013, 05:23 PM
So then you agree that tax dodging and loopholes for the rich and the corporations have to end?

jacksmar
03-21-2013, 06:40 PM
So then you agree that tax dodging and loopholes for the rich and the corporations have to end?

TARD, let's preface this conversation with a fact: You have NEVER paid one dime of your money into another person's retirement account. That check has never ONCE passed from your hand to an institution who's purpose is safeguard that check.

You are so out of your league with budget speak. For example, what do you think Obamacare is? It's a tax budget, which means there IS builtin loopholes and dodges.

You and every OWS socialist can't comprehend another fact: you are a follower. You don't have the tools, the education, or the fucking balls to start a business because in most cases, the business fails and that isn't something your government school taught you.

Those facts indeed put you in 47% of the whole or the other 99% willing to be a loser.

FORD
03-21-2013, 06:53 PM
TARD, let's preface this conversation with a fact: You have NEVER paid one dime of your money into another person's retirement account. That check has never ONCE passed from your hand to an institution who's purpose is safeguard that check.

You don't have the slightest fucking idea where my money goes or who it goes to, so shut the fuck up, retard.

"....an institution who's purpose is safeguard that check." Well that sure as fuck ain't Wall Street. Nor should it ever be. Because they're about as capable of that as Hagar is of writing lyrics.


You are so out of your league with budget speak. For example, what do you think Obamacare is? It's a tax budget, which means there IS builtin loopholes and dodges.

No, "Obamacare" is a system of mandatory payments from people to insurance corporations. Which dodge their taxes. Not to mention payments on claims.


You and every OWS socialist can't comprehend another fact: you are a follower.

I don't follow anybody.


You don't have the tools, the education, or the fucking balls to start a business because in most cases, the business fails and that isn't something your government school taught you.

Those facts indeed put you in 47% of the whole or the other 99% willing to be a loser.

Speaking of losers, there you go quoting one.... That ridiculous distortion didn't help Mittens much, did it?

Nickdfresh
03-21-2013, 07:07 PM
It looks somewhat appealing but they never do what they say they are going to do. Where are the shovel ready jobs Obama promised?....

Largely cut out of the bill actually...

Nitro Express
03-21-2013, 07:17 PM
So then you agree that tax dodging and loopholes for the rich and the corporations have to end?

10% flat tax across the board. The problem with a variable tax code is they will always find a way to exempt themselves out of it.

FORD
03-21-2013, 07:29 PM
10% flat tax across the board. The problem with a variable tax code is they will always find a way to exempt themselves out of it.

Ah, yes, the old flat tax fallacy.... best known as a campaign plank by one Malcolm "Steve" Forbes Jr, an inheritance billionaire who never worked a day in his life.

Sure he would love to only pay 10% taxes.

Difference is that if "Steve" ( Or Mittens, Paris Hilton, Chimpy, Jeb, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Zuckerfuckerberg, etc.) loses 10% of his income, he's still got a lot of it left. Your typical WalMart employee already has to be on food stamps to buy groceries from his own workplace, so 10% is going to be a much bigger impact to him.

Incidentally Bill Gates & Warren Buffett agree with me on this, and not with their fellow rich fuck, "Steve".

When the rich paid their fair share, this country built highways, bridges, AMTRAK, airports, and brought electricity, phone lines, and indoor plumbing to those rural red states that didn't have any of that shit before FDR was in office.

When did all that infrastructure start falling apart?

The minute Reagan & the BCE started cutting taxes on the rich, and letting corporations dodge them entirely.

Even Chimpy or Jerksmear can do that math.

jacksmar
03-21-2013, 07:45 PM
You don't have the slightest fucking idea where my money goes or who it goes to, so shut the fuck up, retard.


TARD, first off loser, the name is jerksmear.

So again, since you must pay quite bit into another person's retirement account, let's use another example to prove you don't know what you're talking about.

Example, if I'm a C Corp paying a 39% tax rate, what is my likely take home pay?
You probably know this off the top of your balding pear shaped head.

And since corporations aren't people, what rate am I forced to pay for the 47% of the losers using the AMT or should I as a "people" dissolve the C Corp and become the standard S Corp? My salary will no longer offset as with the corporate income tax.

At what point in your proposed socialist budget do I trigger an increase in the AMT?

FORD
03-21-2013, 08:53 PM
I never claimed to be a fucking CPA, so take your tax problems elsewhere and quit trying to hijack a serious thread with your meth addled bullshit.

And not that it matters, but I still have the same goddamned hairline I had when I was 2 years old. I'm only "bald" in the summer - by choice.

jacksmar
03-21-2013, 09:53 PM
TARD, the point was so simple even you got it. What you think of a loophole in ideological speak, may be someone's retirement. Or someone's job doing such low life bullshit as fixing corporate jets or yachts, or homes.

But in your typical repeating bullshit pattern, you want to base a budget off of what the "haves" make and expect that number to never fluctuate providing a budget based on picking who gets taxed and those that don't.

The US Congress has never balanced a budget. Sorry Newt.

And the only job government can create is a government job.

The truth is FORD, I don't think you or anybody else here is a loser. My problems revolve around people, their salaries, and broken sink plumbing, millage rates, and contracts.

I don't care a where congressional budget originates. It won't balance.

FORD
03-21-2013, 09:57 PM
The truth is FORD, I don't think you or anybody else here is a loser. My problems revolve around people, their salaries, and broken sink plumbing, millage rates, and contracts.


Wait a minute.....

Are you Samuel Joseph Weazelfucker?? :headlights: