Demo Sen. Claire McCaskill Calls for Americans to “Take up Pitchforks” if Tax Increases Don’t Go Through!

Sen. Claire McCaskill admits hiking taxes on the wealthy is really class warfare, but she claims it is about the middle class. McCaskill alleges Republicans want to raise taxes on the middle class. That is unfounded. The truth is 47% of Americans don't pay any federal income tax. If we are going to cut federal income taxes, they must be cut on the upper middle class and wealthy. Nobody else, besides businesses, is paying any significant amount of federal income tax. Many Americans receive more money back, in the form of tax credits, than they payed in. Democrats should keep running on the "raise taxes" theme. They don't seem to have learned the lesson of 2010. Sen. Claire McCaskill is up for re-election in 2012.

Senate democrats want to raise national debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion

They need to do this to allow President Obama to continue spending like a proverbial drunken sailor (apologies to drunken sailors everywhere.) This legislation will require 60 votes. Democrats need to ram it through befor Scott Brown gets seated. Otherwise, they may be forced to impose some fiscal responsibility on Congress and President Obama.

AP reported via Yahoo News:

The unpopular legislation is needed to allow the federal government to issue bonds to fund programs and prevent a first-time default on obligations. It promises to be a challenging debate for Democrats, who, as the party in power, hold the responsibility for passing the legislation.

Congress Gives Itself a Raise

You may be tightening your budget, but Congress isn't. Under a bill, which President Barack Obama could sign as soon as Wednesday, spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent this year. Unemployment is at a 26 year high and the deficit is headed for incomprehensible levels, but Congress has plenty of your money to spend.

From Politico via Yahoo News:

Congress is on the verge of giving itself a bump in its annual budget — even as local governments, families and businesses across the country are tightening their belts in the worst recession in decades.

Under a House-Senate conference measure, approved by the House last week and poised for passage in the Senate on Wednesday, spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent this year, boosting Capitol Hill’s annual budget to $4.7 billion.

Seventy-five percent think Obama will raise their taxes

A new Fox News-Opinion Dynamics poll released August 13, 2009 found seventy-five(75%) percent of registered voters think President Obama will raise their taxes.



The same poll found forty-nine percent of registered voters would like to see Barack Obama on television and in the news.