Should Republicans Take Control of Congress?

What has this administration done to personally raise your taxes?

Obama's policies and bills have raised my individual taxes! I drive my personal vehicle for my job and am able to deduct my mileage. Obama reduced the amount per mile that is allowed from .58 to .50 On average that costs me approx 100/month. Also the new health care bill will no longer allow (starting in 2011) using my pre-tax flexible spending plan money to buy over the counter medications. Both of these mean I pay more tax to the federal gov't.

So don't say he has not affected individual taxes because that is wrong!

Dlbrow of OH 12:47PM September 28, 2010

"Taxed beyond all reason" An interesting and totally inaccurate quote. Taxes at the federal level are lower now than in the 1950s when the top income tax bracket paid 90%. Now the top bracket pays 39.6%. If you think that "the people" can't fund the spending increases through tax increases you are sorely mistaken. The taxed beyond all reason ideology is just part of the fabrication to get people to forget that rich people used to be taxed at a much higher rate than they are now. When the government taxed the rich at that percentage we as a nation were able to build an entire nationwide network of roads and bridges; we built hospitals and schools and railroads. We progressed as a nation. Now because of this perversion of the American dream money is an end to itself and not a means to build something better for both individual citizens and society as a whole.

What has this administration done to personally raise your taxes? The answer so far has been nothing. The three major bills and several minor bills have not increased the tax rates for those making less than $250,000. In fact the administration is fighting hard to keep the Bush tax cuts in place for those who fall within that tax bracket. In its thankless effort, this administration has stimulated a shrinking economy that was rapidly losing jobs and consistently has either created jobs or kept unemployment steady. In its thankless effort, this administration has taken on major industries on behalf of the American public to correct the inefficiencies of the private sectors in health care and Wall Street. It has created new safeguards for private consumers and borrowers. It has done all this and yet we are not grateful because the economy has been sluggish for three months? The government doesn't have a magic wand that it can wave and say poof here's more jobs. Private industry has to be involved to actually hire new workers. In its two years the administration have moved mountains that were placed there by the previous administration. It's conducted two wars it inherited and successfully is shutting one of them down. They responded to one of the greatest environmental disasters of all time and held the corporation responsible accountable. And oh yeah they saved the financial system from collapse.

At this point I would ask what more do you want? But I know the answer is we want unemployment down. If the only thing one has against this administration is that they haven't created enough jobs in the last three months to match their projections/hopes then one should still vote Democratic in this year's mid term elections. What's the alternative: Republicans cutting taxes further; driving deficits higher? Before you fully decide on who to vote for in the mid term elections I would ask you to look at the total breadth of the work that this administration has done in two short years and ask yourself if a sluggish economy is better than a return to the policies which created these crises.

Joseph Alfred of NJ 7:25AM August 15, 2010

A Republican takeover of Congress would be a huge setback. That would be like liberal Democrats from the 60s and 70s retaking Congress. Republican Conservatives are beating a drum that the public does not want to hear any more than that of Liberals. Both are way out of step with the American people.

We need Democrats to retain Control of Congress-but with a more pragmatic agenda similar to Bill Clinton and like-minded Democrats in the 1990s. We need to look at jobs-how can we reduce the tax burden on business so that more jobs can be created? How can we encourage the growth of emerging technologies that will create a truly 21st century economy? How can we invest in education to encourage creativity in our children? As a teacher, this is very important to me.

Such an emphasis might also solve our foreign policy problems as well. If you look at the nations causing the most problems in the world today-Iran-North Korea-Somalia-etc, they are on the outside of a global economy that is creating vast wealth in developing nations such as India and China. How can we bring these rouge nations into the fold? It was entrepreneurship that helped bring down communism in the 1980s and it can do the same for these nations if we take the right steps.

Many Conservatives often hearken back to Ronald Reagan and feel that if we did the same things in the early 80s today our problems would be solved.

As a Democrat who voted twice for Reagan, I believe that he probably would not do much or all of what he did then if he were President today.

Like John Kennedy and Bill Clinton- Reagan was a pragmatic leader who was more interested in getting things done than in pursuing an ideology of the left or right. He also could read the American people and their sentiments. I am disappointed that our current President as well as his Republican opponents cannot do this.

mvanhecke of MI 7:52PM July 18, 2010

If we don't oust the current Congressional overlords, it won't matter any more. Open your eyes. Read and study. Go overseas for supplementary information if you have to. Understand that Washington's bubble and media filter is designed to keep you ignorant, underemployed, and taxed. Liberalism breeds financial slavery.

Welcome 2 Now of GA 1:02PM July 14, 2010