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Obama plans to open talks using his most recent budget proposal, which sought to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy by $1.6 trillion over the next decade, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday. That’s double the sum that House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) offered Obama during secret debt negotiations in 2011.

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If so who is proposing such a tax increase?

See above

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I know you going to claim Obamacare is just such a tax but the uncertaintity is steeped in the constant bickering over the bill, not the bill itself

This comment is absurd. The President has unilaterally changed some of the most major aspects of the ACA at the drop of the hat over the last two months after two years of preparation by the private sector. The entire bill is steeped in uncertainty and its success relies on some very questionable assumptions has to who is willing to sign up and pay in that won't be realized for at least year. It goes way past "bickering." The law itself is a clusterfrick.

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Posted by Antonio Moss

Baton Rouge

Member since Mar 2006

48296 posts

Posted on 1/17/14 at 9:21 am to germandawg

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.I don't understand why taxation at current levels and even higher is a guaranteed job killer

I never claimed that current tax rates, in a vacuum, are guaranteed job killers. It's a multivariable situation.

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Posted by Golfer

Member since Nov 2005

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Posted on 1/17/14 at 10:35 am to doubleb

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Ten years and no taxes to attract new businesses. If lower taxes increases business why not lower taxes for all businesses?

Because not all businesses are bringing in new revenue to the state.

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Posted by ironsides

Nashville, TN

Member since May 2006

8153 posts

Posted on 1/17/14 at 10:44 am to SpidermanTUba

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Are they arguing its beneficial to the economy or beneficial to unemployment figures? Which is a better economy - 6% unemployment with a median wage of $50,000 a year - or 0% unemployment with a median wage of $10,000 a year? The pro-big-business anti-union right to freeload crowd would certainly argue the latter.

1) How about 11.2% unemployment with a median wage of $47k.
2) The state with $10k does it have the same cost of living as the state with a median wage of $50k a year?

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The pro-big-business anti-union right to freeload crowd would certainly argue the latter.

There's an assumption in your statement that unions are not big businesses. There is also an assumption in your statement that workers aren't free to move between companies and take jobs elsewhere and thus they need to organize and unify. Everybody now has access to a public library that has internet where they can search for a job.....

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