>>>>There is no doubt at all among economists that extending the tax cuts to the wealthy (income over 250K/year) will cost more and add more to the deficit than any other proposal on the table or any war already underway. It's a gigantic transfer of wealth from the struggling to the already wealthy. If you want to see some numbers on the transfer of wealth to the richest Americans over the past generation, I can dig them up.
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>>>How can you make this blanket statement. Tonight on NPR they had a report of 1 economist for extending and 1 against. That eliminates all economists favor it. Again you show your bias and distaste for facts other than what printed in the NYT...
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>>I am pleasantly surprised to hear you listen to NPR. They tilt left sometimes even to me.
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>>Here are some other references on the tax cuts. Maybe it's not universal but it's universal enough for me. It's another giveaway to the rich.
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>>http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3241
>>http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Issues/Taxes/2010/08/23/Extending-Tax-Cuts-Could-Have-Huge-Debt-Impact.aspx
>>http://www.responsibletaxes.org/resources/the-business-case-for-letting-high-end-tax-cuts-expire/
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>>There are many more if you care to look for them.
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>LOL, I like All things considered.... but I call it National Peoples Radio......becuase of their continual leftist bias...
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>I did look and there are a number of pro-extending the tax cuts if you choose to look for them.....

The pro-extending comments come from those who have the most to gain. The fact remains that there has been a historically unprecedented transfer of wealth to the rich. The upper 1% have gained enormously and all the rest of us have lost ground. That's fact.

I cheerfully admit NPR is leftist. At least it isn't hateful.

The stuff I like best is the down the middle apolitical coverage. I remember an interview Terry Gross did with Matt Damon a few years ago. (And what right thinking intelligent man wouldn't want to spend a few days with her?) Somehow Mickey Rourke came up. They were in a movie together, "The Rainmaker." (Terrifically entertaining flick). Damon remembered Rourke fondly. "Don't make the mistakes I did." Cool.

Rourke was supposed to be the next great American actor. Life intervened. Anyone who doubts his talent only has to watch him when he was young. "Diner", "Body Heat" -- he nailed it. His role in "Body Heat", which is on my desert island list, was not even a big one. But watch that scene where he is sitting on a top bunk bed trying to talk William Hurt out of setting off a bomb.