Shorter version:
Petition at whitehouse.gov:
End Capital Gains Entitlement to solve fiscal cliff.
Obama said, "Make me do it."
Ideastorm. (grouped details below.)
DO IT SOON
BENEFITS
ACTION
MAKE THEM DO IT
INFLUENCE
PHRASING
OPINIONS
DO IT SOON:
Boehner, Obama began talking about simplification, eliminating loopholes, addressing entitlements.
This takes care of all in one move:
Eliminate the Capital Gains, Carried Interest etc entitlement. A tax CPA or tax lawyer knows where in code to find most obscure loopholes in this family of tax entitlements. List in the petition declaration.
BENEFITS (three phrasings):
1. Reduces classwar in the real sense.
2. Reduces factionalism, division because all types of income have "skin in the game" to the same depth.
3. Equal taxation optimizes "job creation" and "investment creation" incentive/reward.
The current Capital Gains Tax Entitlement:
1. unfairly burdens the makers with greater taxation.
2. increases the makers' cost of living, requiring higher income (if only to survive), thus increasing business hiring costs.
3. is classwar redistribution.
Compare:
1. Capital Gains tax breaks are sometimes spent on anything anywhere. Just speculatively throwing Capital Gains entitlements at people "hoping" they'll hire incurs a loss factor. Some of the entitled neither manage nor actively influence business hiring .
2. Earned Income (wage) type tax breaks more often remain in the USA.
3. Earned Income tax breaks efficiently target "job creation" because they reduce costs to employers only when each employee is hired.
ACTION
1. whitehouse.gov petition is annoyingly spammed but I can't think of better. (Whitehouse.gov petition list by date, and reduced by filter.)
2. Suggest others?
"MAKE THEM DO IT. Your elected representatives, Teathugs and Friendlies, directly:
1. House of Reps and Senate -- web contact forms? (depending if they require javascript, use at your discretion)
Suggest others
INFLUENCE, pressure
Directly:
Outside your districts, but more in tune:
Sherrod Brown
Bernie Sanders
Indirectly. Allies, Friendlies who have public voices. (alphabetically sorted)
DemocracyNow
Paul Krugman
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
maddowblog, twitter maddow
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
Matt Taibbi
Elizabeth Warren (not yet in office)
Indirectly, others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
SIEU, Mary Kay Henry
AFL-CIO, Richard Trumpka
Drop comments at other sites:
politics newsvine, fiscal cliff newsvine.com, newsvine fiscal cliff google news
(Posting at tealoony sites is a waste of time.)
DKosers nominate others
PHRASING
We should use tea language and "our" language. We understand both. Teas won't admit they understand both, so we also translate into teabonics.
'Framing' and 'fairness' discussed recently:
Mr President... Frame the Tax Cut Issue in Two Clear Sentences
Phrased as one liners
#c82
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#c83
#c26
#c82
Mine:
Why do teathuglicans punish the makers with prejuducially higher tax rates?
Why do teathuglicans perpetuate affirmative action for the takers?
Why are teas trying to slow the economy instead of grow the economy?
Answer: the takers (e.g., Le Kochs) feeds taxpayers' hard earned dollars into teathuglican reelection campaigns.
Americans are tired of being Santa Claus when Mitt Romney or the Koch brothers want "Stuff", "Things" and "Bling" like a sixth Cadillac.
Corroborating OPINIONS:
Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys? Nicholas D. Kristof October 3, 2012
...
So the 15 percent rate that some tycoons pay because of the carried interest loophole is a recent, er, entitlement.
Obama the Dealmaker David Brooks November 12, 2012
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Obama could probably triumph in a short-term confrontation, pushing through higher tax rates on the rich that wouldn’t even produce enough revenue to cover a tenth of the deficit.
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Some of the things on the to-do list are things Democrats relish doing: investing in infrastructure and basic research; reforming immigration to attract global talent; investing in student loans and community colleges; trimming the annual $1.1 trillion in tax loopholes, many of which go to corporations and the rich.
What? Teamath says that $1.1 trillion won't cover a tenth of the annual deficit?
Posted in Romney..legacy spoiled callous rich: James Kwak at The Los Angeles Times '... employer health plan exclusion and the mortgage interest deduction are just peanuts... Barack Obama, you will never run for re-election again. Now is your moment. Don't waste it' Not to mention that other Dems will run for Pres, Sen, Reps, Gov, Mayor, etc.
Following links.
Increasing loopholes:
Billions in tax savings a goal of anti-debt group, according to think tank Nanette Byrnes November 13, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/...
Ms. Anderson has co-authored all 19 of the think tank's reports on excessive CEO pay. At this point, it's safe to say that nobody heeded the first 18.
(astroturf?) 'Fix the Debt' tax giveaway
uncle-sams-pocket
executive_excess 2012 correct pdf link
http://www.democracynow.org/...
http://thehill.com/...
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small amount of additional personal income tax they might pay would be more than offset by higher bonuses and stock option gains
Talks Begin on "Fiscal Cliff," Report Warns "Fix the Debt" a Front for More Corporate Bailouts November 13, 2012
"Make me do it"
From Liberal Victory to Disempowerment in Six Easy Steps November 7, 2012 Glenn Greenwald
More work:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/...
http://www.federalreserve.gov/...
http://richmondfed.org/
(be wary when wikipedia user-made graphs use complex calculations)
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/...