"Obama has agreed to extend the
Bush-era tax cuts. Because if there's
anything we need, it's an extension
of the Bush era."
    Letterman

The deal the President struck with Republican leaders is an abomination.

It will cost $900 billion over the next two years — larger than the bailout of Wall Street, GM, and Chrysler
put together, larger than the stimulus package, larger than anything that’s come out of Washington in years.

It makes a mockery of deficit reduction. Worse, the lion’s share of that $900 billion will go to the very rich.
Families with incomes of over $1 million will reap an average of about $70,000, while middle-class families
earning $50,000 a year will get an average of around $1,500. In addition, the deal just about eviscerates the
estate tax — yanking the exemption up to $5 million per person and a maximum rate of 35 percent.

And for what?

Wealthy families won’t spend nearly as large a share of what they get out of this deal as will middle-class
and working-class families, so it doesn’t do much to stimulate the economy.

The deal further concentrates income and wealth in America — when it’s already more concentrated
than at any time in the last 80 years.

I can't help it if so many Americans live in "FantasyLand". The citizens of Greece and Ireland were living in FantasyLand for many years, then it collapsed.

You want higher taxes to pay for silly 'Stimulus Bills'???? So you want worthless programs and charge them to the taxpayer?

How about letting people decide how to spend their money?

How about letting people decide how to spend their money?