The Simpsons - Mr Burns Explains The Fiscal Cliff

Still reeling from the presidential election results, Mr. Burns takes a few minutes to explain the upcoming fiscal cliff. -yt
quantumushroomsays...

"Raising taxes only on the top 2 percent of income earners will do nothing to reduce the deficit. There's not enough money there -- even assuming, contrary to all known history, that the top 2 percent won't find ways to reduce their taxable income or that the imaginary increased government revenue would be applied to deficit reduction, anyway."


It was a cute bit at election time; now I guess we have to hear these political ads 'twixt every episode.

Simpsons writers and King Obama have lots in common: they both do a terrible job, are overpaid and have an army of apologists and deniers when they deserve to have been fired long ago.

Truckchasesays...

I call bullshit on this post. Obama hasn't been elected king yet.

quantumushroomsaid:

"Raising taxes only on the top 2 percent of income earners will do nothing to reduce the deficit. There's not enough money there -- even assuming, contrary to all known history, that the top 2 percent won't find ways to reduce their taxable income or that the imaginary increased government revenue would be applied to deficit reduction, anyway."


It was a cute bit at election time; now I guess we have to hear these political ads 'twixt every episode.

Simpsons writers and King Obama have lots in common: they both do a terrible job, are overpaid and have an army of apologists and deniers when they deserve to have been fired long ago.

Kruposays...

*money and *politics - not to mention "do nothing" is a flat-out fantasy. Really? More revenue can't help close a hole? You blindly assume the US government is completely incapable of raising funds, a point the IRS would be sure to chuckle at.

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