Posted on 09/12/2010 8:24:10 AM PDT by roses of sharon
(CBS) The leading Republican in the House, and a vocal proponent of allowing an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, including the wealthiest 3% of earners, objected to charges by President Obama that Republicans are holding tax breaks for the bottom 97% of earners hostage unless the wealthiest also get an extension.
In a pre-taped interview to appear on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner said that, if approving a bill to extend breaks for middle class income Americans were "the only option," he would support it.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans would cost $700 billion over the next decade.
At a speech in Ohio earlier this week, Mr. Obama said, "With all the other budgetary pressures we have - with all the Republicans' talk about wanting to shrink the deficit - they would have us borrow $700 billion over the next 10 years to give a tax cut of about $100,000 each to folks who are already millionaires."
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what are you talking about? the taxes automatically go up. if the democrats do nothing it goes up
Eliminate all food stamps, welfare, subsidized housing, health care by govewrnment and any other government charity.
With the poor receiving the above they don’t pay any taxes, they are just returning a small portion of what they got from the govenment back to government with sales taxes.
Eliminate all charity, everyone make it on their own in this world or quit taking up space on this planet!!!
Once conservatives retake the house Boner needs to be removed from power, he was good at saying no but that just about sums up his usefullness.
He are NOT going to allow RINO’s to compromise us into the minority again.
While Bohener does p*ss me off at times, you’re right.
People here on FR tend to forget that no matter how principled an individual might be, sometimes you have to know when you’re being played, and not fall into the trap.
Strategery, people.
That said, I second the notion of Bachmann for speaker. Or perhaps Mike Pence.
Yes. Someone who won't play political games with our lives.
What a leader he is! /sarc
> “Michelle Bachman for Speaker of the House.” <
Agree. Boehner just sold out and no longer has my confidence... he’s just another RINO.
That being said, I am by no means wealthy, but I can’t understand the thinking of the average American who demonize those who are wealthy.
I think they believe that most who gained their wealth did it by illegal activities or are “Trust Fund Babies,” or “Trustifarians,” as my son calls them.
Exhibit Number One for supporting Tea Party candidates.
Way to go, Boner.
Correct. Congress can pass a bill to reinstate (or stop the expiration of) the tax cuts and will have to specifically exempt the higher income folks there will be an amendment to include all Americans that the RATs would have to vote against. They might not even attempt to exclude the “rich”.
This sort of crap is why Joe Average has lost his Boehner for the GOP, shall we say. Too often, it’s a principle-free party, and brain-dead one too, with no grasp of how not to give the opposition press sound bites of mass destruction. Idiot.
Exactly. Tax cuts pay for themselves!
When Reagan took office in January 1981, the I.R.S. annual haul from the income tax was $500 billion.
When Reagan left office eight years later, the I.R.S. was taking in $950 billion a year. Tax cuts expand the economy and make the “pie” larger.
Same with capital gains. When the Republican Congress twisted Clinton’s arm and had him agree to a cut in the capital gains rate, many individuals and businesses sold their long held assets, and more money flowed into federal coffers than before.....the government took in MORE money, not LESS.
The democrats lie and demagogue this issue endlessly.
Paul Ryan or Michelle Bachman for Speaker of the House in January.
Bonehead. Doesn’t he know that the class warfare card was openly being played? He had to have talked with his staff and other members as to how to answer this inevitable question. He could have responded simply that tax cuts for ALL taxpayers help everyone in the economy. Tax cuts for the “rich” is actually a great jobs bill for the poor and middle classes.
If we get the House, we need someone more strategic and articulate than this dude.
any talk ‘bout inheritance taxes?
Paris Hilton earns lots of her own money....is just that she earns a lot of money from easy work with virtually no risk.
For instance, an LA millionaire once paid Paris $250,000 just to show up at his daughter’s sweet 16 party in order to impress the daughter’s friends.
On New Year’s Eve one year, Paris received $2 million for cutting the ribbon on a new brewery that opened in Australia.
But like you say....most of the “rich” are hardworking business owners who put in long hours and risk their own money. I like your idea of having the GOP call the “rich” employers instead of the “rich.” The Republicans should also point out that small business employ 75% of all Americans. To find out who these working “rich” really are, the libs should read the book “The Millionaire Next Door.”
That's the thing, and why Boehner is an idiot despite ORAG's analysis.
Republicans need to stop running with the Democrat's false premise of who "the rich" is. When Democrats talk about the rich, they are talking about high-income wage earners who have made it on their own. They are not talking about trust fund babies who inherited their wealth and can shield it from the government.
I wish Republicans would start defending the rich. There's nothing wrong with being rich in America.
Vote RINO—Don’t worry, we’ll vote just like the Democrats would
RINO—When you like how the dems are doing things, you just don’t like the dems
Boehner Brand Speaker—Just like the old speaker, but with half the Botox
Want to send a message but keep the change? Vote RINO
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