BrownDuck wrote:
His Excellency MoebiusLord wrote:
Sir Xsarus wrote:
If I'm a landlord, and I give you a break on rent for a month, then the following month when your rent is back to the full amount, it would be silly to claim I've raised the rent.
If you're that landlord and you rent an apartment at one rate then change the rate years later it'd be a silly claim to say you weren't raising the rent.
Those two scenarios are completely different. Do you honestly not see why?
Hi, BD. You must be new here. You're under the assumption that I'm some sort of window-licking mongo. Of course they're different. They represent two different segments of the American public and both actually fit in the current climate. Anyone who started paying taxes after the tax cut was implemented essentially rented the apartment at a rate that they didn't anticipate changing. Allowing their rate to rise is not setting it back to where it was before. If the Canadian wants to chime in with one-sided and inaccurate analogies about the American tax code, I'm happy to point out his failings.
BrownDuck wrote:
The tax cuts were never supposed to be permanent, or they wouldn't have had an expiration attached. To argue that allowing said expiration to occur is some how raising the tax rate is completely unfounded.
If I paid 10% last year and pay 12% this year, and the only change is the tax code, what is the net effect to me? That's right, it's not a trick question. My taxes went up. That's an
increase. Now, if you look around the room you should see that there aren't any people in your field of vision who have power over that tax code. It's controlled by Congress and, albeit tangentially, the White House. Here's where it gets tricky, so pay attention. If I have the power to stop something and I don't that makes me culpable for the results via depraved indifference. If Congress and the White House do nothing to prevent the expiration of the tax cuts, they are guilty of raising taxes.
Sit back, take a breath (and maybe an aspirin) and the headache will eventually subside. I can't be sure you'll get it then, but at least you won't have a headache any more.