Barnicle says GOP budget would put "the future of the Republican party … in great peril" because "their budget actually proposes to hurt even more people"

Chuck Todd is hilarious! He has to be one of the WORST "reporters"in the business. This guy shills so hard for the right, he couldn't even bring himself to actually answer this question.

"That's the thing... the Republicans are complaining...(Democrats) are punishing the rich to help everybody else" That's it Chuck, every good reporter knows that the essential FACTS lie right there in what the political party SAYS about the other! God forbid you ever actually report what's in the Republican budget and how Americans would be impacted by it. No one will ever be able to accuse you of actually reporting!

"Well, you look at their (Republican) budget and they risk doing the same thing." Really Chuck? You looked at the Republican budget and it risks punishing the Rich to help the poor? Or perhaps, you just can't bring yourself to actually report on the air that the Republican budget punishes the poor in order to give more tax breaks to the rich? There you go buddy! Never let objectivity get in the way your bias!

Even better, you go on to say "where they're gonna create, you could create divides." Brilliant! You almost came in sniffing distance of reporting the truth! But, the skillful unreporter that you are, you managed to suck back the "they're gonna" and stick in the generic "you could." But, the crown jewel is how you deftly managed to never to even hint that the Republican budget hurts the poor in order to give the rich more tax breaks. In other words, you never answered the question. Genius! Surely, you will soon reach your pinnacle-- FAUX News anchor.

I have to agree. He does no homework and he speaks off the top of his head. He's always negative when it comes to Obama's policies and basically lazy as a news correspondent. President Obama's health program is nowhere near a "Robin Hood" program. Read it and learn something for a change. The Republicans are, as usual, way off base on this one and you need to report it that way.

If anyine was ever named correctly, it's Barnicle. The sooner he's scraped off the hull and dropped back in the ocean, the better.

 

Todd says "both parties fiscal policies are politically unsustainable", but what is truly politically unsustainable is Reaganomics. 

35 years of giving the rich trillions of dollars that other would have been taxed helped to create the false and massive investment bubbles of high tech, healthcare costs and then housing values.

What they won't discuss is reestablishing progressive taxation, where the wealthy actually pay an increasing share of the tax burden. Progressive taxation served this country very well in the 1950s into the 1960s and funded the strongest US economy we ever had.

As top tax brackets were eaten away and done away with, wealth shifted to speculation, rather than maintaining infrastructure and working towards the future. 

None of the 'pundits' and few of the politicians will talk about this.

It's Reaganomics that has failed, and "cutting taxes to grow the economy" is the biggest lie ever perpetrated in modern history. Cutting taxes artificially provides a temporary fake boost to some indexes, and may fund some innovation as a byproduct, but in the long term most of the money ends up in the hands of wealthy and powerful.

The money would be better off in the hands of public servants of the common wealth, who distribute these funds to all rather than in hands of the greedy.

Obama has not addressed the core issue of the economic disaster, and that is that Reagan's and GHWB's massive tax reductions on the top 10% must be reversed. Republicans are screeching 'socialism' because Obama wants to let Bush's tax break for the rich expire, which raises the top marginal bracket to 40%, from about 36%. The top bracket in Nixon's time was 70%, in Eisenhower's 91%. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Todd says "both parties fiscal policies are politically unsustainable", but what is truly politically unsustainable is Reaganomics. 

35 years of giving the rich trillions of dollars that other would have been taxed helped to create the false and massive investment bubbles of high tech, healthcare costs and then housing values.

What they won't discuss is reestablishing progressive taxation, where the wealthy actually pay an increasing share of the tax burden. Progressive taxation served this country very well in the 1950s into the 1960s and funded the strongest US economy we ever had.

As top tax brackets were eaten away and done away with, wealth shifted to speculation, rather than maintaining infrastructure and working towards the future. 

None of the 'pundits' and few of the politicians will talk about this.

It's Reaganomics that has failed, and "cutting taxes to grow the economy" is the biggest lie ever perpetrated in modern history. Cutting taxes artificially provides a temporary fake boost to some indexes, and may fund some innovation as a byproduct, but in the long term most of the money ends up in the hands of wealthy and powerful.

The money would be better off in the hands of public servants of the common wealth, who distribute these funds to all rather than in hands of the greedy.

Obama has not addressed the core issue of the economic disaster, and that is that Reagan's and GHWB's massive tax reductions on the top 10% must be reversed. Republicans are screeching 'socialism' because Obama wants to let Bush's tax break for the rich expire, which raises the top marginal bracket to 40%, from about 36%. The top bracket in Nixon's time was 70%, in Eisenhower's 91%.