While the "Fiscal Cliff" looms..............

[brutal]

Yeah many employers do for their execs and they then write it off so the tax payers then subsidize their travels. They go to conferences in Cancun for some stupid thing and attend a class or two and then write the whole trip off as a business expense. Happens all the time.

You so have no fucking clue about the business world. Execs and sales folks are almost always performance based and get perks when they hit their numbers.

[nynco]

Why should I the taxpayer subsidize their perks?

[spqrzilla]

We haven't found a world in which nynco has a clue. That's not a fantasy world, that is.

[spqrzilla]

Why should I the taxpayer subsidize their perks?

They shouldn't.
http://nation.foxnews.com/gsa-scanda...ribbon-cutting

[nynco]

That was wrong. Just as wrong as some exec abusing tax write offs.

[Rucker61]

Yeah many employers do for their execs and they then write it off so the tax payers then subsidize their travels. They go to conferences in Cancun for some stupid thing and attend a class or two and then write the whole trip off as a business expense. Happens all the time.

I'm going to China in a week. That expense is a tax-deductible expense for my employer. Yes, some trips are boon-doggles. They all aren't, though.

Here's a clue: No one here can fix the tax code. Quit posting here about it. Write your representative and Senator.

[sroz]

Obama started off with comprise right off the bat. The fool said he would look at "entitlement spending". F' that, don't balance the budget off the backs of the poor and the old when business is making record profits and the uber rich are paying the lowest tax rate in US history. Obama is spineless.

So I'll ask again. Exactly what entitlement spending cuts did YOUR fool offer up. You talk a lot of generalities, but you really don't say crap. Hot air. Give specifics or stfu.

[Rucker61]

So I'll ask again. Exactly what entitlement spending cuts did YOUR fool offer up. You talk a lot of generalities, but you really don't say crap. Hot air. Give specifics or STFU.

What entitlement cuts should we make?

[sroz]

What entitlement cuts should we make?

I didn't make the statement & never said we should. I'm certainly not aware of any Obama has offered up. Are you?

[stevelkinevil]

We have a massive debt and deficit. Why the heck should we put a cap on revenue (1 trillion) that is FAR short of working to pay off that? You guys don't like the deficit, well lets raise revenue to pay it off. Just like they did during the Eisenhower years.

Ugh, I generally stay out of these but this just infuriates me. Let me help you with an example. I once had a relatively successful small business, when it failed my income was cut to about 1/20th what it once was. This necessitated that I adjust my spending, in another words cut it all acrossed the board. I was forced to live within my means, millions of people do it every damned day. Conversely this government and dems in particular (and sadly many reps) will not only not consider the massive cuts in spending that are necessary but refuse to even consider cuts in the GROWTH of spending. This would essentially be like a person in my situation getting every credit card and loan I could and increase my spending regardless of what is coming in. Increase revenue? well I didn't have access to OPP (other peoples pockets) so that wasn't an option for me, and it shouldn't be for the out of control federal gov either. Stop calling it "raising revenue" call it what it is, theft, its what all governments eventually take part in, cannibalization of their citizens.