Senator Warner on the Payroll Tax Cut Deal

Senator Warner announced today in a speech on the Senate floor that he will be voting against the payroll tax cut deal.

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[trime1851]

Excellent speech - good position on this small issue. If our Constitutional Republic is to be saved, a more radical position is needed.

[Meade556]

He requests he does not set, Congres does

[yadig2012]

President Warner 2016 !!!

[Meade556]

Most Feds earn less than 80k they should have their pay frozen. Think about it, we get 15 billion by sticking a nail in the thumb of young people who would want to work for Uncle but the Rs cannot raise taxes on HEDGE FUND MANAGERS? Exxon Mobil? Chevron? Bullies.

[Meade556]

Considering the 70 billion in waste in DOD and that everything is being considered in a ten year time frame, we could go one better and say, right, next year lets cut 30 billion from the DoD budget than POTUS is asking for, 40 billion is a heck of a margin to allow for error, should be more than enough and in the ten year period would have paid for whole shebang, tax cuts, docfix, and unemployment insurance.

[HemiHead66]

Now this tax cut will be like the first one, it robs from ourselves. But the GOP are paying for the unemployment benefits by making new Govt employees pay more into their pensions. Of course the GOP shit-birds didn't go after their pensions, they exempt themselves & the rest of the DC crime family. Ya gotta love the GOP, they bitch about the cost of pensions, but not their own. I've been saying this for many years now, the GOP will never practice what they preach. And Conservatives don't care.

[epblue0]

The FICA tax only applies to the first 110,000 dollars earned per year so I'm not sure what good limiting the tax to persons earning under 150,000 per year or 250,000 per year (they only pay the tax on the first 110,000 regardless of total) . . . you could say that the the 4.2% rate only applies to the first 50-60,000 and then the remaining is taxed at the 6.2% rate or you could just increase the total earnings subject to the tax so that the burden is more fairly distributed . . .

[WereTech]

Thanks for allowing comments so that we can express our Freedom of Speech.

Once again it is proven that Democracts can (and often are) fiscally consesvative.

Being fiscally conservatve is a good thing.

Federal workers - I'm making roughly a 1/3 of the pay rateI made in 2007 due to the current job market. Not getting a pay RAISE is not the same thing as taking a hefty pay-cut. I think Federal Workers and Politicians need 2 feel the same pain as average Americans in order for them to resolve it

[tikifire86]

I'm speechless. Thank you for supporting what's best for this country instead of what's popular.