Obama Sends $3.7 Trillion Budget to Congress

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

So if understanding the tax cuts correctly, the average American foots the bill while the gilded elite get off scott free?

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Yeah i know everyone supposed to get some tax break, but porportionally, if you do the percentages, the average joe saves SQUAT. The gilded elite save millions.

The "gilded elite" pay virtually ALL the bills.

The new budget is $12,000 per capita. No one deserves a cut who doesn't pony up enough to cover their family. We have 4 people, so our cut is $48,000. If we pay some multiple of that, and another family of 4 pays $4800, who deserves the cut again? The average joe pays for nothing at all. You could end income taxes on a standard deviation around the median of the middle bracket and it would barely be noticed.

Again, if there are any tax cuts, they should be, you know, to people actually paying taxes, and ideally those paying the most "shares" first.

This budget gives lie to Obama claiming any sort of fiscal responsibility. Send a balanced budget to Congress, or even one with a surplus or STFU. That goes to Republicans, too. Trimming off a few hundred billion isn't enough. Balanced, or STFU.

Instead of saving 1.1 trillion over 10 years (the obama plan, which increases spending, then also increases taxes), they need to have a budget that saves 1.1 trillion THIS YEAR. Alone. And every year forward. Take the 2007 budget and just change 2007 to 2012. Done.