Would Feed Needy Families for a Year.

I don't like being labeled as demo or cons, but I am at odds with people who don't pull their weight. And yes, I don't just talk the talk, I have donated over a grand this year. People who have it, needn't be so stingy with it. After all, you can't take it with you.


This week the House will debate a GOP proposal to cut $101 million from food assistance for low-income seniors and local food banks. The bill slashes $38 million (a 22 percent cut) from the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, or CSFP, which provides nutritious food packages to more than 600,000 low-income families every month (96 percent of whom are seniors). The bill also cuts $63 million from The Emergency Food Assistance Program, or TEFAP, which provides our nation’s emergency food bank network with food commodities and storage and distribution support. These cuts come at a time when food prices are rising and food banks are already struggling to serve their existing caseload.

Conservatives claim these cuts on the backs of our nation’s most vulnerable families are necessary to bring our fiscal house in order. But here’s the rub: One day’s worth of Bush tax cuts for millionaires would more than offset these cuts to seniors and food banks. Here’s the math:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/millionairetaxcutsinfographic.html

What’s more, conservatives often claim that private charities will simply pick up the slack. Yet this bill cuts support to the very private charities that conservatives claim will step up to fill the gap. TEFAP funds supply about 25 percent of the food provided by local food banks, soup kitchens, churches, synagogues, mosques, and other emergency feeding institutions.

Cuts to the program would be particularly devastating as food banks face a projected 50 percent decline in USDA bonus commodities and grapple with a trend of falling charitable donations. Similarly, the CSFP is generally distributed through local public and nonprofit community organizations like food pantries and hospitals.

In short, these cuts will inflict enormous suffering on some of our nation’s most vulnerable populations while undermining the ability of private charities to meet rising need. And yet today our Treasury will lose more money in tax cuts for millionaires than it would take to avert these cuts.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/millionairetaxcutsinfographic.html

Would Feed Needy Families for a Year.

I don't like being labeled as demo or cons, but I am at odds with people who don't pull their weight. And yes, I don't just talk the talk, I have donated over a grand this year. People who have it, needn't be so stingy with it. After all, you can't take it with you.


This week the House will debate a GOP proposal to cut $101 million from food assistance for low-income seniors and local food banks. The bill slashes $38 million (a 22 percent cut) from the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, or CSFP, which provides nutritious food packages to more than 600,000 low-income families every month (96 percent of whom are seniors). The bill also cuts $63 million from The Emergency Food Assistance Program, or TEFAP, which provides our nation’s emergency food bank network with food commodities and storage and distribution support. These cuts come at a time when food prices are rising and food banks are already struggling to serve their existing caseload.

Conservatives claim these cuts on the backs of our nation’s most vulnerable families are necessary to bring our fiscal house in order. But here’s the rub: One day’s worth of Bush tax cuts for millionaires would more than offset these cuts to seniors and food banks. Here’s the math:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/millionairetaxcutsinfographic.html

What’s more, conservatives often claim that private charities will simply pick up the slack. Yet this bill cuts support to the very private charities that conservatives claim will step up to fill the gap. TEFAP funds supply about 25 percent of the food provided by local food banks, soup kitchens, churches, synagogues, mosques, and other emergency feeding institutions.

Cuts to the program would be particularly devastating as food banks face a projected 50 percent decline in USDA bonus commodities and grapple with a trend of falling charitable donations. Similarly, the CSFP is generally distributed through local public and nonprofit community organizations like food pantries and hospitals.

In short, these cuts will inflict enormous suffering on some of our nation’s most vulnerable populations while undermining the ability of private charities to meet rising need. And yet today our Treasury will lose more money in tax cuts for millionaires than it would take to avert these cuts.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/millionairetaxcutsinfographic.html

I think its funny how people act like rich people don't pay any taxes. They are in the highest tax bracket already. They pay the highest percentages.

That's not really true in any meaningful way. A look at the numbers shows that the curve for taxes paid versus income across all the income brackets is very slightly progressive. As well it should be. In fact I think the curve should be much more progressive.

This week the House will debate a GOP proposal to cut $101 million from food assistance for low-income seniors and local food banks. The bill slashes $38 million (a 22 percent cut) from the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, or CSFP, which provides nutritious food packages to more than 600,000 low-income families every month (96 percent of whom are seniors). The bill also cuts $63 million from The Emergency Food Assistance Program, or TEFAP, which provides our nation’s emergency food bank network with food commodities and storage and distribution support. These cuts come at a time when food prices are rising and food banks are already struggling to serve their existing caseload.

50% of all taxes are paid by the top 1% of earners. 50% of Americans pay no payroll taxes. Your facts are about as screwed up as they can be.

I guess Jesus never saw a rich man he didn't love and admire, so it's a national sin to tax the top 1% at all.

I think its funny how people act like rich people don't pay any taxes. They are in the highest tax bracket already. They pay the highest percentages.

Thats' simply not true. It is so far from true that I can't help but demand some documentation.

I didn't have to even open your links to see that they are the same bogus sources that we have seen so much of. the URLs say it all.

Here is the source that you want to be looking at.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/do_the_poor_really_pay_no_taxe.html

You will notice that the bar graph at the bottom shows the relationship between people in the various income brackets in what they make and what they pay in taxes. The slightly progressive bias is obvious.

Here are the tables from which the numbers for that chart are derived.

http://www.ctj.org/pdf/taxday2009.pdf

Please pay special attention to the first note. It is very important in understanding why your source is completely bogus and misleading.

What does the NY Times have to do with it?

I gave you an opportunity to learn something. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. I've done my part.

People can argue over taxes all they want. Truth is, a flat rate income tax is the best way to solve all problems. Problem is, no one wants to lose the loopholes. Not the wealthy. Not the accountants. Not the lawyers.

Jesus did say that stealing is wrong and he encouraged rich people to be charitable. Societies don't exist so that the politicians can screw the rich, they are supposed to be a compact of mutual defense between individuals. Keep overtaxing the rich and they can leave the country and take their money with them. Is that what you want? To kill the goose that laid the golden egg?

And it's really sad that you think you know what or how I think. You have a stereotype that you just slap onto people so that you can feel morally superior. Maybe you are or maybe you aren't, but you assume far more than the facts will allow. Let me tell you something KerryO, anytime you think you know how I think or feel about something and I haven't EXPLICITLY taken that position, then you are probably 100% wrong.