re: #392 reuven

Here are some things that can immediatly be done:
1. Undo “Obama’s” 2% cut of the employee’s portion of the SS tax. There’s no need for this

[Link: www.irs.gov…]

2. Get rid of the Mortgage Interest Deduction. This is just plain silly.

3. Repeal the “Deadbeat Specuvestors Tax Relief Act” and make people pay income tax on forgiven mortgage debt. This was a trillion dollar handout!

[Link: www.irs.gov…]

4. Get rid of the tax _credit_ for sending your kids to summer camp

[Link: www.irs.gov…]

That should be a good start!

Nice ideas but…
1) With jobs and employment lagging I don;t think it’s a good time for that.
2) With the housing market in the shitter and forclosures swamping the market I think we need to encourage people to stay in their homes and make it easier for people who might be on the brink of foreclosing. A good idea for down the road but not now.
3) eh
4) not much savings
Reapealing the Bush tax cuts for top earners makes much more sense. They will hardly notice it. Maybe they’ll turn down the thermastats on their heated olypic sized swimming pools but that’s not much of a hardship. They can endure it.