DU these polls (2)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7545983/

Do you believe global warming is contributing to the increased hurricane activity?
Yes 72% No 28%



http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

Do you think the federal government should raise taxes to pay for rebuilding the Gulf Coast?
Yes 55% No 45%

not sure about the second. I would rather see cuts in the military budget, revocation of estate tax cut, and cutting of political pork.

Only raise taxes on those who have made out like bandits under the * regime.

to rebuild the gulf coast.

I believe they should stop spending on this war by ending this war, enable anti-pork legislation, fire Dumbya with prejudice, and stop paying Halliburton their costs plus a 1000% markup.

They should keep our tax structure just the way it is, but give disincentives to outsourcing American jobs at American companies, and collect income tax from thus employed Americans rather than wondering why our corporations aren't paying taxes.

We are raising interest rates to slow down "our red hot economy", while doing nothing on the regulatory side to profit from our so-called "red hot economy" except to de-regulate emmissions standards, pollution standards and manufacturing standards. We need to find a way to make corporations and corporate entities pay what they owe by making it more expensive to dodge the bullet than to take the bullet.

just my two cents

in other words, "raising taxes" means eliminating the Bush Tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. The GOP does not want to give up their tax cuts and the pressure is on in the face of financing Katrina reconstruction and the Iraq war costs. They are trying to peddle cutting the budget (social programs, aid to states) instead of this "tax hike". In reality this "tax hike" is giving up cuts that benefit the wealthiest among us.

That's the kind of misleading use of language that people get conned by.

I believe the Bush tax cuts should be eliminated AND we should get the hell out of Iraq NOW, but the question just addresses the one.

My two and a half cents!

You can be certain that if taxes need to raised by Bushco it WILL happen to the middle class and not to the wealthy, and it will happen by reducing the credits that middle class people tend to claim for deduction.

I honestly believe the income levels need to be set considerably higher on threshold across the board, however I can also say I don't like the way the tax system works today at all.

You can't have a sliding scale that means that incrementally higher income results in significantly less take home - the "Honey I got a raise but it means we're making a lot less money now" situation. That's a situation that turns people into republicans.

I don't have a PhD in tax theory, but I am sure there are better and fairer solutions than what we're forced to deal with right now, and furthermore solutions that can't be used for partisan one-issue recruiting from middle class people who think they are being treated unfairly right now.

1% on everything over the first $75k (joint return). So, anyone making less than $75k per household would pay nothing extra.

Poor people are not affected at all. Lower income, but above the poverty line folks are unaffected. But, we need to start paying what we need to pay to undo the damage of these deficits.

Katrina has nothing to do with the need to move in this direction.
The Professor

He's done everything but burn a cross on his program...