ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the family dog finally sit and stay at your command.

With President Obama back in office and his life-saving fiscal cliff bill jammed through Congress, the new year has brought a surprising turn of events for his sycophantic supporters.

What happened that my Social Security withholdings in my paycheck just went up? a poster wrote on the liberal site DemocraticUnderground.com. My paycheck just went down by an amount that I dont feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease is gonna hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?

Shocker. Democrats who supported the presidents re-election just had NO idea that his steadfast pledge to raise taxes meant that he was really going to raise taxes. They thought he planned to just hit those filthy 1 percenters, you know, the ones who earned fortunes through their inventiveness and hard work. They thought the free ride would continue forever.

So this week, as taxes went up for millions of Americans which Republicans predicted throughout the campaign would happen it was fun to watch the agoggery of the left.

I know to expect between $93 and $94 less in my paycheck on the 15th, wrote the ironically named RomneyLies.

My boyfriend has had a lot of expenses and is feeling squeezed right now, and having his paycheck shrink really didnt help, wrote DemocratToTheEnd.

BlueIndyBlue added: Many of my friends didnt realize it, either. Our payroll department didnt do a good job of explaining the coming changes.

So lets explain something to our ill-informed Democratic friends. In 2009, Mr. Obama enacted a holiday on the payroll tax deduction from employees paychecks, dropping the rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. But like the holidays, the drop ended, and like New Years, the revelers woke up the next morning with a massive hangover and a pounding head.

Bake, who may have been trolling the site, jumped into the thread posted Friday. My paycheck just went down. So did my wifes. This hurts us. But everybody says its a good thing, so I guess we just suck it up and get used to it. I call it a tax increase on the middle class. I wonder what they call it. Somebody on this thread called it a premium. Nope. Its a tax, and it just went up.

Some in the thread argued that the new tax or the end of the holiday, which makes it a new tax wouldnt really amount to much. One calculated it would cost about $86 a month for most people. Honeycombe8, though, said that amount is nothing to sneeze at.

$86 a month is a lot. That would pay for Groceries for a week, as someone said. More than what I pay for parking every month, after my employers contribution to that. A new computer after a year. A new quality pair of shoes every month. Months of my copay for my hormones. A new thick coat (on sale or at discount place). It would pay for what I spend on my dogs every month food, vitamins, treats.

The Twittersphere was even funnier.

Really, how am I ever supposed to pay off my student loans if my already small paycheck keeps getting smaller? Help a sister out, Obama, wrote Meet Virginia. Nancy Thongkham was much more furious. F***ing Obama! F*** you! This taking out more taxes s*** better f***ing help me out!! Very upset to see my paycheck less today!

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