{"id":21411,"date":"2010-12-07T07:46:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21411"},"modified":"2010-12-07T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T11:46:49","slug":"the-tax-cut-deal-i-got-my-hope-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21411","title":{"rendered":"The tax cut deal. I got my hope and change."},"content":{"rendered":"

If you scour the archives of this blog, you’ll find mentions of the Bush Tax Cuts throughout. I’ve been wringing my hands about the impending expiration for years. And it’s not because I’m rich. Many of you know that I bought my first house last year after decades of wandering around the world with my family in tow. I bought the house, paid cash, with the money I’d saved over the last decade from the Bush Tax Cut so you can understand why I’m so enamored with the concept.<\/p>\n

Last night the president announced that he’s struck a deal with Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax policy. That and he’s going to roll back Social Security taxes…yeah, keep goin’, buddy. You can cut even more, ya know. My wife had to quit working three years ago because she was earning just enough to pay our taxes – it hardly seemed worth her twelve-hour shifts at Walter Reed for her to continue.<\/p>\n

But anyway, COB6 sends us a link from the Daily Kos<\/a> in which the baboons over there threaten to leave the Obama Train (read the comments). COB6 writes; “That’s just the sound of heads ‘sploding” in the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

There was no way the Democrats were going to let the Bush Tax Cuts become the Obama Tax Hike. If the cuts had expired, everyone in the country was suddenly going to realize that the Bush Tax Cuts weren’t just “tax cuts for the rich”. Families in the lowest bracket were going to pay taxes for the first time or see their taxes increase by 50%. That’s just a little too much reality for the Democrat voters.<\/p>\n

But, yeah, Obama isn’t the president Democrats voted for in 2008. He promised to get us out of the wars, close Guantanamo, tax “the rich”…ain’t none of that shit happened. I’m not complaining, I’m just pointing out that’s not the Hope and Change Democrats voted for…it’s the Hope and Change that Republicans voted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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