Fiscal Cliff ... Here it comes!

JC29856

The deal also ushered in an additional $205 billion in wasteful corporate tax favors. New racetracks will get tens of millions, Goldman Sachs gets $1.6 billion in tax-free financing for its new massive headquarters, banks get a $9 billion dollar loophole for offshore financing, and U.S. multinationals are allowed to dodge taxes on income earned by foreign subsidiaries – giving them all the more reason to move jobs offshore.

know1

JC29856 wrote:

The deal also ushered in an additional $205 billion in wasteful corporate tax favors. New racetracks will get tens of millions, Goldman Sachs gets $1.6 billion in tax-free financing for its new massive headquarters, banks get a $9 billion dollar loophole for offshore financing, and U.S. multinationals are allowed to dodge taxes on income earned by foreign subsidiaries – giving them all the more reason to move jobs offshore.

This is why our government doesn't need more money.

unsung

Fiscal cliff / debt ceiling. Mere words used so Congress can get credit and congratulations from saving us from Congress.

dancepartner

I wished I could remember the scary catch phrases previously used in post election January's.
If I was the tour guide in charge of pointing out how this fiscal cliff actually formed (who gets paid to come up with these catchy phrases anyway?) I'd start with 20 some odd years ago when our first trillion erupted from the once stable economic ground just prior to the erosion that occurred from the demise of the gold standard.

This thread, just as the Occupy thread, entices me to believe in the people who embody the AMT. At any given time, this little crop of smart & witty folks could choose to assemble our gripes into a more productive outlet. But in the meantime, and until we at least stand up to stop taking it, I'll just add to what is being referred to it quite aptly as the jerk-off show: when doing so, doesn't a visual of someone bobbing about help? Well, I'm off my knees now.

dancepartner

By the way, of the others who are off their knees and actually doing something, this is the current list I've compiled and am promoting at Dancingpartners.info

Electronic Frontier Foundation — Defends OUR rights in the Digital World
https://www.eff.org
Progressives United — fights against corporate influence in OUR political system
http://www.progressivesunited.org
Public Citizen — Advocates Democracy is for US!
http://www.citizen.org
Citizens Against Government Waste — Taxpayers watchdog
http://www.cagw.org
American's for Tax Reform — advocate single-rate flat tax
http://www.atr.org
Sunshine Review — dedicated to transparency in Government spending
http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Portal:Show_Me_The_Spending
Concord Coalition — non-partisan, who believe we have a moral obligation to leave
this country better off for our kids & grand kids
http://www.concordcoalition.org

Anytime anyone has more to offer, please let me know. I could use any and all help. Thanks

Jason P

The politicians and talking heads have done an amazing job of confusing me to the point I that I have no idea what has happened regarding the fiscal cliff.

I assume that nothing has happened and I’ve been played like a mark in a game of three card monte.

:?

unsung

FWIW, the Senate voted on this three minutes after they received the paperwork. They don't even know what they are voting on.

Jason P

Two more days until we drop off the sequester.

:corn:

I've got some matches ... I'm ready to see it burn. It's what we get for approving a campaign thats main rally cry was to raise taxes.

Cosmo

I wish those fucking cliffs would quit attacking us.
...
If only there were some way to avoid this speeding car from flying off that rapidly approaching cliff in front of us...

mikepegg44

Cosmo wrote:

I wish those fucking cliffs would quit attacking us.
...
If only there were some way to avoid this speeding car from flying off that rapidly approaching cliff in front of us...

davidtrios

i like jimmy cliff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trwRUb6aG0Q