Originally Posted by Relentless

This deal, and the way it is being sold to the public, were packaged and agreed more than a month ago by Obama, McConnel, Reid, Boehner and Pelosi. It's a dog and pony show and the actual deal does virtually nothing. No long term agreement on handling the debt ceiling, no Buffet rule to require wealthy people to actually pay their accurate marginal rates, a 400K threshold that affects less than .6% of the population and disproportionately taxes New York, California and other blue states where earning 400K is not a lot of money rather than adjusting for cost of living....

The deal does nothing to fix the problem of people calling 200 Million carried interest or capital gains paying 13% while someone who actually creates equity in our economy and earns 400K pays close to 40% instead. It sets us up for new retard-showdowns on the debt ceiling every several months and has no automatic mechanical measure to tie spending cuts and tax increases together in a rational way...

The whole thing is a sad joke.