Maria Bartiromo on President Obama's Budget

[hangdsobs]

The US has ALWAYS increased taxes during wars DUMBASS broad! It was the R's that cut taxes to the RICH that KILLED the Clinton Surpluses(3 times), + the UNFUNDED & SCREWED UP 2 wars Bush got us into. We'd be MUCH better off if Bush hadn't "lost" 24 Generals during Iraq & stopping looking for bin Laden. BUT-Afghanistan went from 5% to 95% of the world SUPPLY for Heroin in 6 years! 3 guesses why CIA's Tenet REALLY wanted us there! Karzai's BRO? A CIA protected Drug Warlord! Recently killed LMAO

[hangdsobs]

It's all a CON-Artist game folks. TP'ers R's and CON-serv-ARTISTS were elected to create jobs, but wrote EXACTLY ZERO Jobs bills! R's were voted in to FIX Government & make it work(less than 3days/wk), & REFUSED to investigate or reform the now-legalized BRIBING of politicians or thieving of taxes. Nothing but No TAX CUTS for ALL Americans! No funding military. No to paying the debt! NO to jobs! NO to helping homeowners! YES to increasing DEFICITS BILLIONS to give it to the rich & corp's!

[Eleetnessful]

criminal trial, midget bloomberg charged with anything he should/could be, jamie implicated, 40 years sentence (goal) for those 2 teleprompter readers

kitty genevese illegal paparazzi still unpunished

those 3 will be punished that's all I'm gunna say right now

[Eleetnessful]

tomorrow 4pm this maria is going to show up and a mental stab is going to go through my brain and it's going to happen again like I'm suffocating

1.7(?) year STILL NO PUNISHMENT STILL BP LEGAL GAMES 1.7 year over this kitty genevese case

I wanna behead maria frogface and jamie dimon

They will be punished I don't care how

4pm tomorrow this teleprompter reader sharp mental stab pain suffocating

11am frogafce sharp mental stab pain suffocating

[Eleetnessful]

this frogface francis

Those 2 WILL NOT be reading teleoprimpters in the near future

Calling my rep to find out where the mini-side show is

This jamie dimon I wanna behead him on national tv he's going to be implicated 1 year ago, maybe room for debate, now those 2 fuckups who read teleprompters will be punished and jamie will be implicated

NO WAY AROUND IT

this tiny midget bloomberg can't coverup for them for another 1.7(?) year

[Eleetnessful]

EVERY TIME I SEE THIS 38+ WAIST ON TV IT'S LIKE A SHARP MENTAL STAB

1.7YEAR

this midget bloomberg is trying to hide shit [probably bc he's a tiny midget and he wants this digusting ugly slobby teleprompter reader to give him some sexual favors (cant shoot high when ur a midget)

He KNOWS ALL ABOUT THIS and he's not demanding that she come forward and face criminal charges 1.7(?) year

she won't be reading teleprompters that's as vague and broad as I can say it

She had MANY chances same for

[Eleetnessful]

This fuckup teleprompter reader with the 38+ waist and uglyface and uglynose won't be reading teleprompters in the near future that's all I'm going to say about that

Everytime this fuckup appears on tv and I see this I really really feel like beheading her on live tv this kitty genevese unpunished

When the grand main event happens this will all be as clear as I can make it

1.7(?) year and STILL reading telepromtpers

this shithead jamie will be implicated no way around it

midget bloomberg

[getplaning]

Tax cuts have no correlation with job creation. In fact, higher federal taxes on the top 1% has historically corresponded with lower rates of unemployment. For example, from 1979-1983 taxes on the top 1% were steadily decreased from 37% to 28% while unemployment increased from 5.9% to 9.6%. From 1992-1996 taxes on the top 1% increased from 31% to 36% while unemployment decreased from 7.5% to 5.4%. Why CNBC keeps pushing this myth is a mystery. Well, not really...

[edarotag84]

wow, I can't believe NBC didn't fire her for speaking the truth against the president's budget, nbc must be allowing its people to speak the uncensored truth now, bravo nbc.

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

@edarotag84 Maria was in Scottsdale last week, can't find a clip of it. The propaganda machine began in earnest from there in 1995, believe me I know.

Who blew up the buildings?

[hangdsobs]

The problem with Socialism is that the USA was PREDICATED on a Socialist Ideal. States BANDING together to protect themselves! The problem with self-ordained anti-Socialists crying about Obama, is that he's proving EVERY DAY how IGNORANT & usually RACIST they are.

WHat happened to their cries when Dick "dead-Eye" Cheney was interviewed: He's "never seen or HEARD of ANY evidence linking bin Laden with 9-11"? Youtube/FBI it! The HEAD of al Qaeda knew NOTHING about 9-11? Afghanistan=Heroin!

[xplund]

@hangdsobs Yeah you got it. Anybody who disagrees with Obama's world view is simply ignorant and racist.

[hangdsobs]

@xplund 1) You- proved 1/2 my point. OUR Constitution. "We the People" of the United States, in Order "to form a more perfect Union", establish Justice, "insure domestic Tranquility", provide for the common defence, "promote the general Welfare", & "secure the Blessings of Liberty" to ourselves" & our Posterity". All SOCIALISTIC ideals. 1 man-1 vote! 2) Obama's world view is the same as Con-serv-Artists, we're headed for 1 world, just not 99% bankrupt, on welfare, fighting wars for oil & drugs

[Bluesummers1296]

@hangdsobs you're a fucking idiot.

[hangdsobs]

@Bluesummers1296 Ah, the argument of a mental GIANT! Calling people curse words! You- just proved my point. Our Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more "perfect Union", establish Justice, insure "domestic Tranquility", provide for the common defence, "promote the general Welfare", and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Pretty damn SOCIALIST! Google FBI bin Laden wanted poster- NEVER mentioned 9-11. Yep- ABSOLUTELY ignorant

[leocat99]

The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money.

[Unklebillybob]

Leo, True! The liberal attitude is that it's not enough you are spending other people's money, but, one day they have a taste for a goose dinner so they kill the goose that lays the Golden Eggs, for that dinner. . . Damn the consequences!

[joes805]

LMAO.....good quote

[Olbermann4Prez]

Then you have the audacity to label countries with words that bring up terrible images of corrupt governments and despicable acts when: 1, you don't even trust your own government; and 2, your government has shamed you all by enabling such things as torture and extreme rendition. I'm not even going to challenge you on the whole socialism/ Marxist comment on health care and education because you obviously haven't even listened to Obama. It's like you people love to argue shit out your ass.

[Ram1960tui]

Look. mr unaware,every aspects of Mr Obama's proposals are based on socialistic ideology. So the banks will be nationalized, health care also, etc. Don't you see, man, there is more GOVT. and expansion. The govt is taking over. Massive spending!!!This what socialist govt. do. Wher will he get the money from, borrowing, more debts, augmenting the federal deficits, devaluing the dollar, etc. Do you want this? then good luck.

[hangdsobs]

@Ram1960tui So, 2 years later, after repeating the R's BS talking points, how many banks has Obama "nationalized? ZIP! Yep, he helped SAVE their asses, but R's REFUSED to punish the fraud or reform the laws! Bush's TARP bailed banks out and AIG, who was insuring Goldman Sachs FRAUDULENT securities! =MASSIVE spending! Which is what FASCIST governments do! Increasing deficits, printing money, billions disappearing in Iraq, borrowing from China to give tax breaks to the rich & rich Corporations.

[Olbermann4Prez]

Ram you obviously know nothing about socialism other than the politics. First of all the United States isn't a purely capitalistic country. So unless you consider such entitlements like medicare and health insurance socialism be quiet. Americans are so obdurate and fail to realize the good policies of other countries. You pay 5% more per GDP on health care yet your health system is one of the worst in the world.

[Ram1960tui]

This BUDGET will wreck the USA. Too much spending, where will the money come from? First of all this will cause extremely huge deficit, and the dollar will subsequently be devalued, since the govt. will have to borrow money. This is Socialism/Marxist policy which have FAILED, miserably. I have lived in a Socialist country, and the same policies were initiated on Health Care, Education, etc, and you know what, I ran away from that country to live the USA. That was Guyana, my friend.

[Olbermann4Prez]

You people are morons. From the simple fact that you speak about huge deficits, I know that you nothing about the Great Depression. After coming out of the depression their were huge public deficits. But who do you expect when the demand in the economy was at an all time low. Do you really think cutting taxes will counter a recession of this magnitude? What equates in a savings of at most a couple grand for taxpayers result in tens of billions of losses in tax revenue.

[Olbermann4Prez]

FDR invested a lot of money into the economy in order for the country to prosper in the long-term because the malaise of their present situation meant that it was going to tough in the short-run. I'm sure no one could dispute that FDR failed in his efforts to revitalize the economy especially since the Democrats took control of the presidency for a generation after wards.

[vandykerp]

Obama is simply not qualified for this position. He is making things worse for taxpayers not better. Get rid of the earmarks he said...yea, right! He is just

another smooth talking politician.

[FranzHess]

Don't let the fact that most of this spending is creating badly needed jobs dull your hate for Obama.

What we learned from the New Deal was that we didn't spend nearly enough money. WWII came about, and the ecomonic boom that followed proved that was the case.

Obama and his advisers know this. Be glad someone in the WH has actually studied history, instead of climbing on the Hooverite bandwagon.

[vandykerp]

Most of this spending won't create jobs for about 18 months!

Dodd/Geithner allowed billions of dollars to be spent in bonuses to the AIG bank execs. Obama approved this money...I hardly think this money was spent to "create jobs". Obama is incompentent....so is Geithner.

History, how about the history that our country has never seen a 3. 7 trillion deficit? He has spent more money in his first two months than any other president in history..shall I go on?

[FranzHess]

Obama is heading off a depression. That's how it's done.

You have a better plan??

By all means, let's hear it.

[vandykerp]

Yea, lets stop bailing out the banks and auto companies. It's a bottomless pit! Throwing good money after bad. I am not for the Obama program of bailing out the banks with our money and then letting the banks execs take their millions in bonuses. Hello....who is the smart one here??? Not our prez! I am furious and you should be! Since 50% of the people don't pay taxes at all... well , maybe they wouldn't be unhappy...it's someone else paying anyway.

[FranzHess]

What do you think will happen when the banks stop lending money, as they are already starting to now?

Do you know how business operate here in the US?

No one is happy about the bonuses...except those executives. But you have to get real here. We are trying to stop a depression.

We have had massive deregulation, combined with Greenspan keeping interest rates artificially low for way too long.

When the banks can no longer loan money, we have a real problem.

If you know a better plan, post.

[vandykerp]

I know business..it plain and simple...or used to be. If you can't make a profit and hold your head above water you FAIL otherwise you become a successful businessman. What changed?? Gov't got involved and decided some were too big to fail. Sorry, I think we could have done without

[vandykerp]

There's a HUGE G-20 meeting this weekend... there is a whispering campaign to remove the dollar as the "reserve currency" of the world.

[Unklebillybob]

van - It looks just that way.  Now, it is time for the People to stand-up and say, NO, to mr oblama's budget. Our current president is a clown. He's never worked a day in his life and throws the Billion Dollar figures around, like they're dimes. But as oblama has said, it's time for change.... which means it's time to change our congress to more responsible members.

[vandykerp]

"No one is happy about the bonuses"

You get real here! Both Dodd and Geithner knew these bonuses were in the package and they failed to remove it. It then went to our arrogant Pres and he didn't remove it either. SORRY is too late! I don't know about you but the rest of us are sick about it!

THEY KNEW IT and didn't care.we gave AIG 152 BILLION.  Obama approved the bonuses which came to be anywhere from 1-4 million to 168 individuals as "retention" bonuses. What a joke!

[FranzHess]

OK, so you have no plan to stop the recession.

You just want to bitch about the bonuses.

You obviously don't know anything about business.

You claim the Obama is not qualified, yet you have no plan to head off the recession before it becomes a full -scale depression.

The bonuses were not part of the package, they were always in place, they are not new, or something Obama GAVE to AIG.

Banks have to load money, fact.

Your plan, now, to head off the recession???

[vandykerp]

Yeah, Boy Genius allowed the bonus..he could have vetoed it!

Hey, guess what? We should allow some of these guys to fail! Where do you get this sense of entitlement of now allowing anyone to FAIL? We can't hold them up...there is simply not enough money. Boy genius again allowed Geithner to print all this money last week. Guess what this does to our dollar? We have been living high on the hog for some time its time to pay the piper now with all the bad debt we incurred through the banks.

[FranzHess]

Ah, no, you are incorrect....unless you are suggesting that he put in place an ex post facto law?

None of you understand what needs to happen to fend off this recession, at all.

I just see the same borrowed talking points, over and over.

Where are your plans to stop the recession?

Obama has one, do you?

[Unklebillybob]

Hello franz, mr oblama is unqualified!

Has he ever run any kind of a business?

Has he ever run any size of a business?

Has he ever been in charge of a payroll?

Has he ever been responsible for any time of foreign affairs?

Has he ever been in charge of any military force,,,, including a national guard unit?

Has he ever worked with the management of large, medium or even small businesses?

The answer to all of these questions is a NO!

Therefore, Franz, mr oblama is not qualified.

[FranzHess]

It amazes me to hear people slam Obama when they, themselves, are not even qualified to carry his briefcase.

By all means, keep repeating mindless Republican talking points, just like they want you to, instead of coming up with a plan, while Obama actually does something about it.

[Unklebillybob]

Many of us are more qualified than mr oblama. And that, alone, scares me. Manyh of us have run businesses, been in charge of payrolls, accomplished business dealings with foreign countries, served in the military or national guard, and were responsible for the income of hundreds of employees. Whereas, mr oblama has not. Ergo, unqualified, needs to go.

[vandykerp]

All of this costs money... Money we don't have, unless we print it! And then monetize it like we did last week! This is all DEBASING OF YOUR CURRENCY Countries like Russia, and China, and others are lining up to question what is going on in the U.S. and say if it continues, they believe the promise the U.S. made in 1971 to allow the currency to float, but not ever get too far in debt" is now in the past, and the dollar needs to be removed as the reserve currency of the world.

[FranzHess]

It's always printed....that's how money comes about....money is borrowed into existence.

The falling value of the dollar is nothing new....been happening all through Bush's reign. I've had to make some major changes to my business, because of this.

What you aren't getting is the seriousness of our situation. We r past simply raising int. rates to slow down the economy....Gspan saw to that. Economic stimulus is how you stop it from becoming a depression. Obama is doing fine, you own him big.

[vandykerp]

HAHa You got one thing right...Due to his spending ....I OWE HIM BIG!  And my children will owe him BIG TOO!

Sorry I didn't recognize you sooner as one of those in a slobbering love affair with the Prez! We are wasting our time here...I personally was hoping Cheney would take him hunting...Pelosi needs to accompany them as well.

[hangdsobs]

@vandykerp 50% Don't pay taxes? Gasoline? Utilities? Retail? Property? Sales? WTF did you get YOUR education? It's F-ING MYTH! It's federal INCOME taxes after DEDUCTIONS! Like Halliburton for at least 5 years, GE ZIP! Republicans SCREAMED bloody murder about stopping those "contract" bonuses! But LOVE to ignore & KILL "Union contracts" with corp's! NOW R's(Ron Paul-Mr Constitution & Mr Small Gov) want to KILL Roe V wade & monitor EVERY vagina in America! Mr. BIG GOVERNMENT Gynocologist!

[vandykerp]

@hangdsobs Wow! You are commenting on something I wrote two YEARS ago. I didn't even know what you were talking about.......... Anyway, all I can say is how is Obama working for you now?

[FranzHess]

Laff.

So, what's your plan to pull out of this recession, before it becomes a full-blown depression?

Obama has one. Do you?

[jpbalkenende]

Oh my god WTF is up with CNBC? A tax on 250k+ personal INCOME and she's talking about how small businesses with 250k revenue are going to get impacted? WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT! Fuck CNBC I kinda felt sorry for Cramer of how he got roasted by Stewart but fuck him too!

[itwontbez]

Maria should be on the FOX network, everyone else at MSNBC is in Obama's pocket.

[rdseheult]

I'm just happy that we'll have a chance in 2010 to elect a different Congress and repeal this budget before it has a chance to take effect.

[Charbax]

You just dream about 2010. Obama is the beginning of the infinite Democratic power in both Presidency and Congress in the USA. You just watch, this is just the beginning. In 2010, there might not even be a Republican party anymore.

Anyways, have fun giving all that money to your church, I guess it must be a fun church doing good things helping poor Christians in your nabourhood. I don't have anything against Church people. Just don't expect to deduct Church donations from your taxes.

[rdseheult]

I give my money to the World Seveth Day Adventist Church. It helps all people (even non Christians) all around the world (Africa) etc. Not neighborhood christians! LOL

[Charbax]

I guess that the World Seveth Day Adventist Church is a charitable organization. Your donation of 10% of your salary to them will not be tax deductible. That doesn't mean the work they do isn't good things for poor non christians in Africa. If they want funding, they can now get it from the Government and the Government will determine which are the most effective ways to help poor people around the world.

[rdseheult]

Charbax. When the National Sunday Law is passed in this country, please remember our converstation here and look to Christ and Seventh-Day Adventist Church which predicted it. Your soul may depend on it.

[Charbax]

Okay, sorry to say, but you are a moron. I just googled your church and your sunday law thing, and I probably haven't seen anything as moronic as that.

[Charbax]

1.5% of U.S. households have incomes of $250,000 or more. Remember: these are households, not individuals, so the number of people making $250,000 or more is even smaller.

If you're one of those few people making $250,000 or more, you're rich. You can pay higher taxes and still be rich.

Small businesses are not taxed like people.

[rdseheult]

Charbax! Let's take an example.  For instance a Doctor who makes $250,000 on paper. He's taxed more now even though he's got to pay for

1) Medical Student Loans $150,000+

2) Malpractice Insurance $30,000

3) Mortgage on House (can't deduct interest anymore - under Obama)

4) Pay for his Nurse, and overhead

5) Put his Kids through college

6) live, eat, put gas in car like everyone else

With what ever is left why would he be rich? Who would go to medical school now? CLASS WARFARE!

[Charbax]

A Doctor and an eventual business where he works (if it's not a hospital but somekind of little medical cabinet or how it's called), those are not taxed the same.

Expenses such as Nurses, workplace insurances all that is not part of the Doctors own salary.

It's just plain wrong that anyone actually making over 250 thousand dollars is hurting by the repeal of the Bush tax cuts. Pure nonsense if not lies.

[rdseheult]

Charbax. When I turn in my tax return - the state doesn't care about student loans, it doesn't care about my interest on my mortgage. Now that I am making money after many years of school, all of a sudden, the govenment and everyone else wants to get into my pocket and "share" with me.

[Charbax]

How much money do you make rdseheult. If you make over 250 thousand dollars you are frigging rich. Stop complaining.

And if you have problems paying your mortgage, then you should probably downgrade from the one private castle or whatever huge 18-room house that you have to something smaller.

[rdseheult]

You are obviously very ignorant. I live in California where we just raised taxes to over 10%. That with Obama's plan means that I'm being taxed at 50% of my income (that's not including property taxes, sales taxes etc.) I actually see less than $100,000 to start. Then we take about mortages, student loans, charitable giving (I give 10% of my gross income to the church because I'm a Christian) - sorry - Charbax - I'm not really rich.

[Charbax]

So now you are a religious Doctor? I don't think that's supposed to be compatible. Usually, intelligent people aren't religious.

If you are lucky enough to have had an education costing over $100 thousand dollars, how can you seriously be complaining about that? Did you know more that millions of Americans don't even get to complete their high school education?

[rdseheult]

Given that high school if FREE - that's not a money issue - it's an intellegence issue. That said, I never said that I wasn't lucky. I am very gratefull. But why punish those that have follwed the rules and been sucessful.

[Charbax]

So your belief tells you that people dropping out of high school are stupid. You are basically saying that black people and poor people are stupid, so it's their own fault if they drop out of high school or cannot complete higher education.

The fact that some public schools totally suck, that their teachers suck and that the whole educational system is completely unfair, unequal, that just don't mean a thing according to you....

[rdseheult]

Now you're putting words in my moth that I never said.

[Charbax]

You said that people dropping out of high school are less intelligent. I guess you know that minorities and people with poor backgrounds have a much higher rate of dropping out of high school. Which basically mean that you are saying that you think people of color and with poor backgrounds are more stupid than white people with rich parents.

[rdseheult]

I went to that high school.

[rdseheult]

intelligent people are more often religious than not.

As far as republians going away. think again: In fact there will be an unfortunate swing back to the right in this country that will usher in religious rule (thanks to this swing to the left). It will bring with it Sunday Laws that will regulate religion with the religious right. This is very unfortunate and scary. We will bow down to Rome and the Pope and follow him because of this economic calamity. Watch...

[Charbax]

This was the last election ever where abortion, same sex marriage and other complete nonsense have been part of the political debates.

Obama isn't stupid, he is using this opportunity to change that country for good for the much better.

Anyone bringing up small matters ethical as stem cell research to the forefront will clearly look like a moron from now on.

As if there isn't much more important things to debate.

[siclos]

In my experience it is the students that "totally suck" in most cases. Too many lack discipline, manners, and/or the desire to learn. For example, I'd much prefer to help US Army soldiers with their training than go back to tutoring high school students. I find I am much more effective as a teacher when mutual respect exists, and considerably less effective when I'd rather bitchslap them than do anything that would help them.

[rdseheult]

Where was everyone when physicians had to

1) Study hard as a student to get into medical school

2) Pay $100,000 Plus for just tuition for medical school

3) delay gratification for 15 years after highschool before starting making money

4) wake up at 2AM to admit patients to the hospital for 6 years of residency.

If you think people will want to do this so they can finance those of you who decided to sit on your asses all these years and require state assistance please stay tuned for 2010

[rdseheult]

I'm sick of being called rich when I don't have much cash left over after the responsibilities that I have to take care off (those that I fully anticipated) - on top of the extraordinary taxes that this joker is suggesting (that I did not anticipate).

[Charbax]

The Bush tax-cuts were the only ones Extraordinary. Completely criminally ideological I would say. It's been completely proven that tax cuts for the rich does not work for society, just look at the mess we are in now.

If you education tuition cost you $100.000, then you can surely pay it off over many years. If you are making over $250 thousand dollars a year, then surely you can afford paying that loan off over several years.

[rdseheult]

How do you know? Many of my friends have $230,000 in student loans. The tuition alone was $100,000, this doens't include the fact that they had to rent and live for those 4 years. Most student loans go into the 200-300K. Nice to tell me that you think I can pay that off in a few years. Thanks. You're a fool!

[rdseheult]

You're rigt Charbax - perhaps we should be like Canada. They have a doctor shortage, know why? WHo would go through medical school and incur that debt when you're not going to be reimbursed?

[rdseheult]

Taking for those that earn and giving to those that don't is stealing!  It will encourage those that earn not to and those that don't to never.

[Charbax]

The stealing happens when those that have take more and more for themselves just cause they have a lot already. The stealing happens when rich people expect to be bailed out when they loose a gamble on the stock market. The stealing happens when rich people use loopholes and evade their profits through off-shores and leave the roads, schools and hospitals being built by the middle and lower classes.

[rdseheult]

Why am I and people like me being punished for doing what we were told to do. If you punish us, the entire economy will collapse! That's a promise. We will not spend - at all. We are responsbile - that's why we are called rich. We will continue to be responsible - AND NOT SPEND. The economy will collapse thanks to Obama (Hoover II)

[Charbax]

The economy has collapsed thanks to George Bush. Now Obama can rebuild a new type of economy that is fair.

And you filthy rich doctors will not escape paying taxes, not even moving your medical business to a tax heaven, those are being exterminated as well.

[rdseheult]

I'm not escaping paying taxes now! LOL I pay MORE than 50% of my income to federal and state taxes!!! ??? We pay MOST of the taxes in this country ALREADY!

[ProlefeedTV]

Small businesses do not pay tax on revenue, Maria.

Subchapter S Corps distribute earnings directly to the company owners - there is NO income tax for small businesses.

What the hell is she talking about? How is she getting away with this on national TV?

Stop being a shill for the Republican party, Maria, and try being a journalist for a change.

[Charbax]

How come is she saying small businesses are affected, when tax increase is only for people making over 250 thousand dollars. If a small business is making over 250 thousand dollars in profit after all its expenses accounted for (like sallaries), then of course it should have its tazx cut repealed, and then it's probably not a small business.

To have over 250 thousand dollars in profits for a small company you need a much larger revenue, probably over 3-4 million dollars in revenue.

[siclos]

Businesses can be rather extensive, employ hundreds of employees and still be "small businesses". $250k is "only" $685 a day.

The average McDonald's made a profit of about $74k in 2007 and $139k in 2008 _after_ taxes.

A small business could be a family restaurant/bar and get hit by this. A small business designing and producing custom parts instead of cheap hamburgers and employing mostly skilled workers could exceed 250k (before taxes) easily.

[kidwest113]

hey charbox if you are like me you don't make anywhere near 200k. It's great that we will not see a tax increase, oh that is unless you use electricity or buy gas or food.

Wake up!