Doug & Pat

It is very clear what the president’s campaign motto is but it’s not clear what it means. It leaves the individual to fill in the blanks. In other words, you can just use your imagination – that is where it departs from reality. It certainly does not mean that we pay the same percentage or amount to the federal government – it’s just a sneaky way of concealing what he really wants to do. Remember “Hope and Change”? Change to what? Hope for what? Now it’s Fair Share. Your guess is as good as anyone. Sounds great but means whatever your imagination can muster. I can tell you that your imagination has no bearing on what he will do.

Our tax code is one of the most complicated in the world. The rich or poor don’t have a choice what to pay – the tax code (which congress passed as law) dictates what you pay according to your income. It goes from 0% to 35% depending on how you got it and how much you got with a myriad exceptions, deductions and rules that the politicians have added over the years. (Those politicians are from both sides of the aisle.) The chance of that being changed this year is about as probable as finding a cure for the common cold.

Now he (the president) wants to extend the “payroll tax cut”. That is taking money out of Social Security but he doesn’t want you to know that so he refers to this in a way that deceives the public. Taking money out of Social Security makes seniors like me nervous. It ought to make everybody nervous.

I am very unhappy with this whole effort regarding the “Payroll Tax Cut Extension” that congress has been struggling with and have just passed. Social Security is a mixture of entitlements and paid contributions. I happen to have paid into Social Security for my entire working career.

I see this as a patronizing political move by the President to gain support from a Weak Minded electorate. In essence they are taking money from Social Security to pay for something that has virtually no impact on employment or the economy. Why don’t they say that they are taking the money from the Social Security fund? Instead they refer to this as a Payroll Tax which many assume is the same as our Income Tax. It’s very deceptive as is most of what we hear from the Left.

I am on Social Security now and I don’t appreciate these politicians taking money from the Social Security fund. Many have been concerned with the way congress has spent the Social Security funds in the past and here we have them doing it right in our face and the Republicans are not calling them out on the issue. I expect this from the Democrats but I thought we had some folks in the Republican Party that were trying to stick up for us.

As you can see – I do not support this “Payroll Tax Cut Extension” nor do I support the extension of unemployment benefits. Our country is in deep trouble and yet it seems that the politicians are more concerned about their spending than the welfare of our nation.

God help us!