Just once, I wish one of these so-called reporters would ask each of these cretins: just how much are your worth, what percentage of your income do you pay and how much did you give to charity? Of course with Pelosi, her wealth derides not from income but from investments and thus, a lower tax rate.

When they start talking about the child tax credit I´ll begin to listen. I have not heard a single word from any of them about the fraudulent claims for children living in other countries as documented by an Indianapolis TV station last year.

REALLY!!!!!! these "people" are nuts, of course they have their money, benefits and connections so they don´t feel the pinch like the rest of us. Our Government leaders make me sick, May God, if he still cares what happens to this country, help us all.

Idiots think they are bending over big business, but instead are sticking it to the average tax-payer. Want to save some money, start with the Tax Credits, allow these credits to lower your tax rate to ZERO, not give you a refund when you didn’t even paid taxes…CRAZY!

1. Why should we listen to people who voted to exempt themselves from the criminal penalties for insider trading that would have any of us in jail?
2. Where´s the list of their reported net worth, year by year, since elected to Congress?
3. How much above the legally-required tax rates have these "not taxed enough, the rich ´can afford it´" [which BTW is NOT the test for tax rates] pre-deleteds paid themselves? What? Not such great "tax-patriots" after all? Really?

Even when 100% of income goes to taxes, these idiots will still want more!

Do the math. In order to pay for all their spending, the taxes on the typical American worker needs to be 20k per year higher. Which for most workers would mean they couldn´t afford to go to work.

The Dems won´t stop until we are all back living in mill villages and buying everything at the company store.

This is exactly why so many of us begged the Republicans not to give an inch on this matter.

Demon-RATS see any sign of compromise as a sign of weakness. They know the Republicans surrendered like the French army on this, and so they are going to go for the jugular now.

Make a stand now against this insanity, or just rename the Republican Party the ´´French Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey Party´´.

It should not be surprising that liberal Democrats say that they want to raise more taxes, as it is central to liberal Democrat and progressive political philosophy that more and more money must be thrown into social welfare programs, to expand their base of voters from the more and more people who they want to become dependent upon those social welfare programs. Once more then half of the voting population is dependent upon those social welfare programs the liberal Democrats will continue to win every future elections, that is until the money runs out.

I agree, Nancy, there are a lot of tax deductions that should be eliminated.

How about eliminating the tax deduction for union dues? And the tax-exempt status of unions?

How about eliminating the deduction for state and local taxes? Dem voters in high tax states like NY, NJ, MA, CA and IL will love you for that one! Right now, taxpayers in low/no state tax states are subsidizing the high tax states

And it´s a sorry state of things when Pravda tells more truth than the American media. I never would have thought that day would come.

I strongly suggest we confiscate ALL of their money, assets, trusts, houses, cars and everything they have but one pair of cheap clothes then put them on the streets as bums...with NO WELFARE!

This from the people that inserted $76 Billion of "Tax Extenders" into the fiscal Cliff Bill three minutes before the vote. I would append the repeal of those "Tax Extenders" to the Sandy Relief Bill and deliver that Bill back to the Senate to Senator Durbin with a copy of this article.

Semper Fi

The GOP has the majority in the House yet as the minority, the democrats seem to control the agenda.

Where is the leadership in the House, Mr. Boehner? Why can`t you publicly excoriate and vilify Pelosi and her Gang of Idiots??

But remember:

Our Coummunist Politbureau Pelosi, Van Hollen, Durbin and Bow-Boy are exempt from all of this, including HussainCare.

Just tax and regulate everybody else.

Down with higher taxes.
Down with HussainCare.
Down with Hussain.

When 100% of our income goes to great leader, then they will have to start talking about making sure everyone does their fair share in the labor camps.

This should be no surprise. The only surprise is that McConnell and Boehner are stupid enough to believe that the tax issues have been "settled". The Dems said weeks (months?) ago that the "cliff" debate would only be an opening salvo.

The GOP "party of the rich" and "party of stupid" tags are verified once again. (The Democrat "party of evil" tag is a given.)

Does taxation increase or decrease economic activity? Why are Democrats in favor of less economic activity?
Go ahead and ask the American people these questions.

I guess the RNC could do something like remind voters that everyone taxing them, just voted themselves a pay raise. It would be good to remind the average viewer how much these corrupt ´lawmakers´ get in salary AND special benefits.

Let´s start with the corporate money addicts in their own districts.