Vile wrote:
] adamist wrote:
] ] ] Congressional negotiators beat back efforts yesterday to
] ] ] expand and preserve tax refunds for poor families, even
] ] ] as they added $13 billion in corporate tax breaks to a
] ] ] package of middle-class tax cuts that could come to a
] ] ] vote in the Senate today.
]
] And, my dear adamist, you would probably be the first one to
] claim that the last tax surplus refund helped sink our
] economy. Please stop playing both sides of an issue just to
] support your party line. If you hate Bush, fine, but you ruin
] your own party's already shot-out credibility. Please shut
] the fuck up or your pathetic, one-sided, tunnel-vision will
] only strengthen the Bush campaign. By filling up Memestreams
] with your awful pro-Kerry amateur punditry, you have acted as
] an excellent campaign worker for the GOP.

Yes, let's talk about this for a minute. Maybe you're all going to label me some kind of anti-poor person, but I think poor people get PLENTY of tax breaks and access to other programs. For example, in New York City, ONE IN FOUR people are on Medicaid, according to the Daily News. This is going to cost the city more than $4 BILLION dollars next year. I for one, am sick of our society of entitlement. What sense of entitlement am I referring to? I work as a public relations executive in Manhattan. While representing an affordable housing development in Yonkers, I visited the residence while it was undergoing a major renovation. Tenants were getting entirely new homes, new kitchens, bathrooms, the whole shebang. The place looked great. When I asked one woman what she thought of her new house, she told me she was upset it didn't have marble floors. Well, sorry. Those were a real budget buster for the subsidized housing that the taxpayers make possible.

RE: Bid to Save Tax Refunds for the Poor Is Blocked (washingtonpost.com)