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Despite Fiscal Cliff Deal, Taxes Will Still Rise for Most Americans — Here’s Why

Jan. 2, 2013 6:50am Billy Hallowell

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — The fiscal cliff debate is subsiding, but does that mean higher taxes for middle class Americans are a thing of the past? Well — not exactly. While the tax package that Congress passed New Year’s Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more federal taxes in 2013.

That’s because the legislation did nothing to prevent a temporary reduction in the Social Security payroll tax from expiring. In 2012, that 2-percentage-point cut in the payroll tax was worth about $1,000 to a worker making $50,000 a year.

The Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan Washington research group, estimates that 77 percent of American households will face higher federal taxes in 2013 under the agreement negotiated between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans. High-income families will feel the biggest tax increases, but many middle- and low-income families will pay higher taxes too.

Despite Fiscal Cliff Deal, Social Security Taxes Will Still Rise for Most Americans Heres Why

US President Barack Obama delivers a statement late January 1, 2013 at the White House in Washington DC. Obama said he had fulfilled a campaign promise to make the US tax system fairer with a deal to avert the fiscal cliff crisis that passed after a fierce duel in Congress. At left is US Vice President Joe Biden. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

Households making between $40,000 and $50,000 will face an average tax increase of $579 in 2013, according to the Tax Policy Center’s analysis. Households making between $50,000 and $75,000 will face an average tax increase of $822.

“For most people, it’s just the payroll tax,” said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.

The tax increases could be a lot higher. A huge package of tax cuts first enacted under President George W. Bush was scheduled to expire Tuesday as part of the “fiscal cliff.” The Bush-era tax cuts lowered taxes for families at every income level, reduced investment taxes and the estate tax, and enhanced a number of tax credits, including a $1,000-per-child credit.

The package passed Tuesday by the Senate and House extends most the Bush-era tax cuts for individuals making less than $400,000 and married couples making less than $450,000.

Obama said the deal “protects 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small business owners from a middle-class tax hike. While neither Democrats nor Republicans got everything they wanted, this agreement is the right thing to do for our country.”

The income threshold covers more than 99 percent of all households, exceeding Obama’s claim, according to the Tax Policy Center. However, the increase in payroll taxes will hit nearly every wage earner.

WASHINGTON – JANUARY 1: U.S. Vice President Joseph R. Biden (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama depart after Obama delivered a statement in the White House Briefing Room following passage by the House of tax legislation on January 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. The House and Senate have now both passed the legislation, averting the so-called fiscal cliff. Credit: Getty Images

Social Security is financed by a 12.4 percent tax on wages up to $113,700, with employers paying half and workers paying the other half. Obama and Congress reduced the share paid by workers from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for 2011 and 2012, saving a typical family about $1,000 a year.

Obama pushed hard to enact the payroll tax cut for 2011 and to extend it through 2012. But it was never fully embraced by either party, and this time around, there was general agreement to let it expire.

The new tax package would increase the income tax rate from 35 percent to 39.6 percent on income above $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for married couples. Investment taxes would increase for people who fall in the new top tax bracket.

High-income families will also pay higher taxes this year as part of Obama’s 2010 health care law. As part of that law, a new 3.8 percent tax is being imposed on investment income for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and couples making more than $250,000.

Together, the new tax package and Obama’s health care law will produce significant tax increases for many high-income families.

For 2013, households making between $500,000 and $1 million would get an average tax increase of $14,812, according to the Tax Policy Center analysis. Households making more than $1 million would get an average tax increase of $170,341.

“If you’re rich, you’re almost certain to get a big tax increase,” Williams said.

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101stIraqVet
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:46am
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” Barack Hussein Obama, 2006.

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- jorge_washington
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:50pm
  “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” Barack Hussein Obama, 2006.
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  You do understand Obama was talking about President Bush, right? The republicans had no trouble with Bush spending the surplus he inherited and then some on tax cuts (cutting the nation’s income), unpaid wars during and raising the debt ceiling about 7 times. Yes sir, the republicans had no problems with these issues. Enter president Obama and now the republicans have problems with everything especially raising the debt ceiling considering they were responsible it. That’s conservative values for you.
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:06pm
  Obama printed and spent $6,000,000,000,000 in 4 years and absolutely nothing is fixed, actually things are worse. democrats say he didn’t spend enough, if he spent more it would’ve fixed all our problems. America is doomed when you’re dealing with a voting block that is this stupid as these democrats are these days. Obama will never have his face on our currency, but I’m sure he will be on the credit cards.
  
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- jorge_washington
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:45pm
  “Obama printed and spent $6,000,000,000,000 in 4 years and absolutely nothing is fixed, actually things are worse. democrats say he didn’t spend enough, if he spent more it would’ve fixed all our problems. America is doomed when you’re dealing with a voting block that is this stupid as these democrats are these days. Obama will never have his face on our currency, but I’m sure he will be on the credit cards.”
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  The national debt went up 6 trillion dollars in about 3 to 3-1/2 years. Can you tell us what Obama spent those 6 trillion dollars on in a little over 3 years? Then explain how that’s even possible to spend that amount of money within that time.
  
  Obama inherited Bush’s 1.4 trillion dollar deficit (revolving debt every year). Obama placed the trillion dollar wars back into the budget. Then you have the Bush TARP bank bailout program of $700 billion dollars. Obama added the $800 billion dollar recovery act and extended the Bush tax cuts for 2 years.
  
  Republican vernacular:
  
  Stupid = blacks, the elderly, the poor, Hispanics, Asians, women, people in college, public sector workers including teachers, firefighters and the police and the military.
  
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- stevetherealist
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 2:50pm
  quess i’ll keep waiting for all the gloom and doom you guys have spew out for nearly 5 years now. If they are half as incompetent as you all claim i imagine we have nothing to worry about. They’ll never be able to complete their destruction of America.
  In case nobody has told you lately……you guys are collectively nuts.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:04pm
  When Bush left office we only talked about $$ Billions and after Obama was elected and the Dems. took over both houses all we heard was $$$ trillions and $$ millions meant nothing. We need to fire the whole IRS bunch and hire some folks that will actually do the job. Remember when Obama was picking his Szars, 6 had to decline because of tax problems and Turbo Timmy blamed his on Turbo Tax. Charlie Rangel Owed $800,000 on his foreign investments. The Rev. al Sharpton still owes $1.2 million and Warren Buffet still owes over $$ one billion from 2010. If you are I owed these taxes and wern’t buddies to Obama there would be tax leins on everything we had and be in jail.
  
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- stevetherealist
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:31pm
  turkey…don’t know what panet you were living on but the CBO projected a 5.6 trillion surplus from 2001 to 2011 and instead, because of the bush policies and actions, we not only didn’t have a 5.6 trillion surplus but aquired a 6.1 trillion deficit. for those paying attention thats a 11.7 TRILLION swing in the wrong direction. So you all should search for some moral ground worth standng on before commenting on Obama’s performance.
  
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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:19am
Say you come home and the sewer has backed up and your home is full of doodoo to the ceiling. Do you raise the ceiling or get rid of the doodoo? What will Washington do?

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- minorityconservative2
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:23pm
  Ha! Too funny!
  
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rdk
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:15am
The temporary deductions were temporary. Payroll taxes fund Social Security and Medicare. Who can be against those programs?

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- dcgirl
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:48am
  I’m against those programs. Give me back the money that was stolen from me in the first place and we wil call it even. I won’t even expect interest.
  
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- S-O-B-E-R
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:36am
  I am against those programs. They were meant to be a safety net, not a retirement fund. Social Security was designed to kick in three years after life expectancy. People were not expected to be on them 20-30 years. They are funded not by the individual, as most of us thought, but by the younger generation of working people, of which there are fewer and fewer. They were raided and are insolvent. I have paid into both for a very long time and don’t expect to ever see any benefits. I guess the average Joe doesn’t know much about economics if they think that printing money will solve this. I will be taxed to death to fund programs I don’t agree with, and it looks like I just have to suck it up and deal with it. This is very sad.
  
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- jorge_washington
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:04pm
  “I’m against those programs. Give me back the money that was stolen from me in the first place and we wil call it even. I won’t even expect interest.”
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  Spoken like a true millionaire or is that billionaire? I suppose you also want to stop being taxed on everything and have that money as well returned to you? If you think you can make the same wealth that you made in this country and keep all of it, you’ll have to find another country. And if you’re not wealthy then you’re a hand puppet of the rich that you will unknowingly allow them to pick your bones clean while still alive.
  
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- jorge_washington
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:26pm
  What is the source of your information? Yes, it is a safety net created by the government for Americans because after working 30-40 years people had little to show for it. That’s how poorly the workers were compensated for by the “private sector” even today, to which many referred to themselves as Christians.
  
  So, SS was to be paid out after the person died? That way no money would have been paid. Definitely sounds like a plan the republicans would cook up. So then what would become of this uncollected money? I guess medical science came to the rescues in allowing people to live longer and actually collect their benefits. So, you’re against SS because it was raided or because people actually lived longer? Keep learning you economics from the likes of Beck, Rush and fox news. Nice talking to Mr. Millionaire.
  
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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 2:44pm
  So, you have a problem with Government spending…yet you want a check cut to you? Wow.
  
  The quickest way to get out of debt would be to cut SS, Medicare and Medicaid completely. Sure, millions of seniors and people with disabilities would die, but we’d be out of debt quick, which is all some people think matters here.
  
  You know how we could responsibly cut all three major entitlement programs? Universal healthcare. If we would just start taking care of all of our citizens’ health needs from day 1 to the last day on earth, we would have a more healthy and happy society, and we could then cut billions of dollars in other entitlement spending programs, like welfare and food stamps, because we’d be able to say, “we have your health covered, but the rest is up to you.”
  
  Without universal healthcare we are not going to give up the three major entitlement programs, and they will bleed us dry in about 25-30 years because of it.
  
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- jorge_washington
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:09pm
  “The quickest way to get out of debt would be to cut SS, Medicare and Medicaid completely. Sure, millions of seniors and people with disabilities would die, but we’d be out of debt quick, which is all some people think matters here.”
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  Yes, indeed lets decrease the surface population of the less fortunate souls so that rich may have more room to enjoy themselves. Hey, it’s the Third Reich all over again. And as an added bonus, there’s less for Jesus to cleanup when he returns. See you in hell.
  
  “You know how we could responsibly cut all three major entitlement programs? Universal healthcare. If we would just start taking care of all of our citizens’ health needs from day 1 to the last day on earth, we would have a more healthy and happy society, and we could then cut billions of dollars in other entitlement spending programs, like welfare and food stamps, because we’d be able to say, “we have your health covered, but the rest is up to you.””
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  Why on earth would you cut entitlements? Oh yea, to give it back to the rich as tax cuts. So under your plan people will be covered under health care therefore be “healthy” except for that part that will suffer from malnutrition and then they can’t really be healthy can they?
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:05am
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Fornicate the House Republicans……..

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mikefromaltoona
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:53am
When the US Debt to GDP ratio was 121% after WWII, our leaders rolled up their sleeves and implemented some SERIOUS spending cuts AND tax increases to deal with the problem… and EVERY administration paid down our debt until it stood at ~35% of GDP at the end of Carter’s term. BUT what do our current bunch of idiots do? They make tax cuts and cap gains cuts PERMANENT for 99% of the population at some of the lowest rates in the last century… while avoiding once again the tough issue of how to implement reasonable and rational spending cuts…unreal!!

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:50am
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Also in the Bill was a set aside for 350,000,000 gallons of KY………..

I wonder what they gonna use that for?……………..

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SmellyDog
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:31am
Welfare queens and illegal-aliens are happy with the deal!

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lgccac
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:22am
The Social Security payroll tax should never have been lowered in the first place. Social Security is already underfunded.

Now income tax is a different animal. And by the way, where are the cuts to overspending and wasteful spending?

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- Jezcruzen
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:25am
  SS would not have been underfunded if the lying greedy corrupt Democrats had kept their filthy hands out of the till!
  
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cdb
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:14am
As usual, only those who work for a living have to pay all the taxes. When are they going to start collecting taxes from all the bums who sit on their arsis and hold out their hands for government money? When are they going to collect taxes from the underground economy? How about collecting taxes from the criminal elements making millions a year, untaxed? A national sales tax would collect from all these people every time the bought anything. Hey congress, are you listening???

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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:11am
  We don’t have a revenue problem… we have a spending problem. We don’t need more taxes, we need to cut the size and scope of government. Start with the Dept of Education ($100 billion) and cut at least 50% of the government. (Cut everything not listed in our (written) Constitution. Let’s SOLVE the problem for once. Hmmmm, it will never happen.
  
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- jorge_washington
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:54pm
  “We don’t have a revenue problem… we have a spending problem. We don’t need more taxes, we need to cut the size and scope of government. Start with the Dept of Education ($100 billion) and cut at least 50% of the government. (Cut everything not listed in our (written) Constitution. Let’s SOLVE the problem for once. Hmmmm, it will never happen.”
  
  Yes, it is an income problem. Bush reduced the nation’s income (taxes) and then followed the deficits that plunged this nation into massive debt that the republicans had no problem with until President Obama inherited Bush’s Mess. That’s the republican solution for you, let’s take the country back to the eighteenth century.
  
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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 2:39pm
  “We don’t have a revenue problem… we have a spending problem. We don’t need more taxes, we need to cut the size and scope of government. Start with the Dept of Education ($100 billion) and cut at least 50% of the government. (Cut everything not listed in our (written) Constitution. Let’s SOLVE the problem for once. Hmmmm, it will never happen.”
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  You could cut the Dept of Education, Energy, Transportation and any other thing you’d want to…and we’d still have a massive debt and deficit. The three programs that are currently out of control are Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Those three programs alone will make up for 100% of the national GDP by the time 78 million baby boomers have retired and are collecting from these entitlement programs, roughly around 2045.
  
  This is what is so infuriating about people with your mindset. You think that cutting the education department and the EPA is going to stop the bleeding, but it’s just not statistically true. The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation proves this point over and over and over again.
  
  http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/entitlement-spending-double
  
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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:21pm
  ranepowel,
  I am simply suggesting that we return to and obey the Constitution. Social Security and medicare should be phased out as these things are NOT a Constitutional function of the federal government. Everything not enumerated in the Constitution is a state or personal matter. (10th Amendment referring to Art. 1, Sec. 8) If we are just going to ignore the Constitution then I think I’ll ignore traffic laws. The Constitution is the Supreme law of the United States and NO the Supreme Court does NOT have the authority (Article 3) to interpret it.
  
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- Grin and bare it
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 3:38pm
  Jorge is not quite telling the truth or is ignorant of the facts, don’t care which… The simple, supported facts are ( From the Congressional Budget Office ) that in virtually EVERY instance of TAX CUTS we see INCREASED REVENUE. Because, as Republicans know, it is not TAX rates that make a difference, it’s ECONOMIC activity.
  
  Liberals ALWAYS fail to draw a line to that factoid. It might be because in almost every instance LIBERALS then spend MORE MONEY. Go back to Reagan and see how the “revenues” tripled and yet (Democrats) increased spending faster than the growth of increased revenue. (TERPA)
  
  Since the Bush tax cuts were enacted, government spending has increased significantly in all major categories: defense spending, domestic spending, and entitlement spending. As a proportion of the economy, total government spending has gradually increased over President Bush’s tenure, from 18.4 percent of GDP in 2000 to 20.3 percent of GDP in 2006.
  
  Obama Deficits Bush Deficits
  FY 2013*: $901 billion FY 2009†: $1,413 billion
  FY 2012: $1,089 billion FY 2008: $459 billion
  FY 2011: $1,300 billion FY 2007: $161 billion
  FY 2010: $1,293 billion
  
  Thanks to Obama we are spending at the highest levels since WWII. (40ish %)
  
  So yes Jorge – we DO have a SPENDING problem. We don’t have to kick old ladies off the Social Security – but we might have to get your **** off of taxpayer funded unemployment.
  
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retiredfire
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:10am
The payroll tax cut was just a way to get some kind of tax cut for those who already didn’t pay income taxes – the 47%.
Allowing this cut to expire broadens the base so that more people have skin in the game and puts more money into the Social Security lock box (having a bit of trouble typing, while LMAO).
Maybe – some day – the voters of this country will learn some economic theory and see that what we have is unsustainable and raising all the taxes in the world is not going to solve it.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:20am
  flat tax ……………and……………….. term limits
  
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- jorge_washington
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 2:16pm
  “flat tax ……………and……………….. term limits”
  
  That’s right; a person making 15k a year will pay the same percentage rate in taxes as a person making 1.5 million dollars a year. What could be fairer than that said the rich man to the peasant.
  
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- jlherbst
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 11:33am
  JORGE said, “That’s right; a person making 15k a year will pay the same percentage rate in taxes as a person making 1.5 million dollars a year. What could be fairer than that said the rich man to the peasant.”
  
  So if there is a flat tax of say 10%, then a person making 15k would pay $1,500 in taxes and a person making $1.5 million would pay $150,000. How is this not fair? The rich pay more because they earn more. You liberals talk about fairness, social justice, etc., but when it comes to actually treating everyone equally in terms of taxes, logic goes out the window. A flat tax is the way to go.
  
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ares338
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:10am
I have noticed as several others have that not one single damn thing has been done to stop the runaway spending so anything they have done is worthless. I didn’t think America would last as long as the Roman Empire did but I though it would last longer than this. Our kids and grand kids ar screwed and we did it.

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jackact
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:02am
Only an absolute idiot, or a ‘low informed voter’, can now fully understand that our two-party system of governance no longer works.
It is broken beyond any possibility of repair.
As our federalist forefathers warned us so long ago; once the two parties merge, the liberty of the people will be compromised.
I can only believe that the immaculation of Obama was divine intervention.
We have only two choices left to save our country;
Tax revolution (applies to federal income taxpayers) or outright civil war.
Let’s see what divine intervention chooses for “We the People”.
Either way, producers, be prepared.

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:58am
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Well the Free Lunch Slaves have won……….

There are not enough Free Americans left to overcome them. This once great country is “Doomed” to a slow death. Better start Prepping for the worse……..

Save America Lynch a Politican & a Free Lunch Slave………

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nilo
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:55am
Lest we forget history, which we have, there are 4 things that destroyed the Roman Empire. Immorality, High Taxes, A Neutralized Military, and a Financial Collapse. Get the picture?

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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:02am
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  C’mon man history repeat?……….
  
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blanco5
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:47am
Anyone who thought that the repubs were on our side haven’t been paying attention.

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- blanco5
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:54am
  “hasn’t” —–before the grammar police get me.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:58am
  They’re more on “your side” than Democrats are. You’re a damn fool if you don’t see that.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:30am
  ZORRO: Agree. Anyone who doesn’t understand that the Obama Chicago radicals are ” anti-capitalists” ( wink, wink ) are even more foolish…
  
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- blanco5
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:16am
  That’s like saying one woman is more pregnant than the other. Both repubs and demonrats are one of the same with very few exceptions as evidenced by the tally of votes.
  
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M24
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:42am
This Whole Soap Opra Is The Scam Of The Century!! Law Makers Put Madoff In Prison For His Crime. When is Obama Going To Prison For His Crimes??? Everytime Obama Speaks I watch the Pawns Cheer ,Just Like When Hitler Would Speak. Wake Up People!!!

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barber2
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:28am
Where are the spending cuts? THAT is what is unforgivable by all of these so-called public servants. STOP the SPENDING, congress and the White House. Maybe their salaries and benefits would be a good place to start. Politicians make used car salesmen look like Eagle Scouts.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:27am
And so it continues, the taxation and regulation of the middle class for the sole purpose of redistribution of wealth by the government unto those who they wish to have it. Obama seeks to have two classes of people in America, the liberal-socialists elitists, and the poor.

Do not forget some of the Obama-care taxes and fees coming into play as well.

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- barber2
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:28am
  SNOW: And do not forget the regulations and the executive orders….Obama’s War on Capitalism has only just begun.
  
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chucksue351
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:26am
what is biden doing in the picture playing with himself or pulling up his fly

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- ares338
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:13am
  Barney Frank was on the floor on his knees.
  
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KalanVA
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:24am
Those who voted for this president will hurt the most financially.

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- power_cord
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:40am
  Those who voted for Obama will NOT be hurt the worst… they will be happy to continue receiving their cell phones and other social program benefits while someone else is footing the bill. Why does everyone have their eyes wide shut?
  
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- zorro
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:01am
  In the end, we’re all paying more except for the very poor. Where Kalanva is mistaken is thinking these people will actually realize they are paying more. When their paychecks decrease, they’ll blame their “rich” employer for not paying them enough and go crying to Obama again.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:26am
  ZORRO: Agree. Obama’s base is comprised of the dumb, the angry, and the naive. Trouble ahead.
  
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BobW
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:17am
Washington is loaded with Political misfits! Where, pray tell, is the Tea Party? A “cleaning of the
house” is much needed. Mid Term elections would be a good place to start. “We The People……………..” must prevail!

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BODYBAG
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:16am
I moved from REP to INDEPENDENT several years ago prior to The Messiah.
However,
This Fiscal Cliff Deal just further illustrates what I already knew.
The GOP is HISTORY.
If you “belong” to this party you need to WAKE UP because it is no better than the
Communist Progressives — in fact they’re the same.

The main problem with the GOP is that they all have v a g i n a s

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liltexasgal
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:11am
Up, Up, and away we go

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paulusmaximus
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:11am
Did anyone expect any thing better? It was never about US the American people. It has been a power play by the Socialist Elite. I wonder what sort of exemptions are in the bill for them.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:07am
The only good thing about taxes going up is that maybe people will understand that big government costs them money

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- bhelmet
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:24am
  Only 47% of them.
  
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