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interlocutor commented on the diary post What Does The Trillion Dollar Coin Do? by letsgetitdone.
Platinum? Personally, I think they should print it on an old washer, or a lead slug.
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interlocutor commented on the diary post Post election deficit deal threatens Medicare and Social Security by Kay Tillow.
Only slightly o/t: someone recently posted a link to a breakdown of the US national debt, showing what percentage is owed to whom. I can’t find it, but it was a wonderful tool for showing how only relatively small percentages are owed to other countries, most of it to ourselves (treasury, bonds, &c &c.) – [...]
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interlocutor commented on the blog post Senate Republicans Reject Their Own Payroll Tax Cut Bill
Sorry, I’d like to see an end to the payroll tax holiday. It’s nothing more than a Trojan horse to get general reveunues into the self-supporting Social Security system, making Social Security even more vulnerable to deficit mania. If they want to exempt payroll taxes on the first 10K earned, but raise the cap on the top taxable wages, maybe I could go along with that. But Social Security in the future is more important to me than an extra twenty bucks a week now (and I don’t think it even amounts to an extra twenty in my case).
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interlocutor commented on the blog post LPS Whistleblower Turns Up Dead
Frank Pentangeli, anyone?
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interlocutor commented on the blog post Pew Poll Shows Progressive Deficit Reduction Ideas are the Most Popular
Apropos raising taxes on corporations and limiting their deductions as well as raising taxes on the wealthiest in our society, aren’t lower tax rates on capital gains, dividends, investment income and hedge-fund management salaries always defended with the idea that corporations have already paid the taxes on this money? Turns out, not so much! (Unless you’re investing in the wrong corporations, I guess.)
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interlocutor commented on the blog post Where are the “Obama Tax Cuts?”
The Obama White House is all about temporizing to extend the worst policies of the Bush White House (and, in some cases, the Clinton White House).
