Tax increase for the middle-class

Today, Timmy Turbotax said he “cannot rule out” middle-class tax increases, even though his boss did during the campaign. Fucking guy.

"If we want an economy that’s going to grow in the future, people have to understand we have to bring those deficits down. And it’s going to be difficult, hard for us to do. And the path to that is through health care reform," Geithner said. "We’re not at the point yet where we’re going to make a judgment about what it’s going to take."

None of this makes sense. Obama comes into office and dramatically increases government spending. Then they tell us that WE have to understand that THEY need to bring the deficits down. HUH? Then he has the balls to say that the way to bring the deficits down is through health care reform, which everybody says will add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit.

And he presumably said this with a straight face.

We could avoid the deficit increases by not implementing health care reform. Then we wouldn’t need tax increases to pay for it. Then we could cut government spending, and then the deficits would be reduced. But Tiny Tim says the only strategy to combat deficits is to pass health care reform and raise taxes.

It makes no sense. How can people possibly believe this?