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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I was comparing *skin tones*.
Surrender before the first shot is fired. Brilliant!
What he should have said was he'd double-down on the Bush Tax Cuts, extending them through 2012 and refuse to fund ObamaCare.
By refusing to fund ObamaCare, the taxpayers of this country are spared hundreds of billions of dollars in spending - that we do not have - and growth of revenues as a result of the tax cut extension for all Americans would go a long way to closing the Federal Deficit.
We all know tax cuts are self-funding in that they bring in more revenue than they "cost" (Government speak right there..)
I think that I like this BUT announce in advance that you are going to do it so that Dims cannot claim some sort of victory.
You see there is no way to know what Republicans believe when they go on these shows, and succumb to Dem talking points. They are always on defense.
Do they believe the Dems premise? Are they simply trying to get out of the interview unscathed? Who are they trying to appeal to?
Regardless, they leave the interview WITHOUT teaching the public a darn thing about economics, the perils of a nanny state, conservatism.
So, the interview has been unproductive and counter productive.
All this does reduce the tax base yet again.
The base has been getting smaller and smaller for decades.
In doing so the majority who pay little in income taxes have no stake in tax increases anymore and so they simply don’t care. They just want their government services someone else pays for. Also as the base gets smaller tax revenue becomes more and more dependent on the well being of the group you are taxing. Any wonder why tax revenue is declining faster than the general economy...
This is NOT a good sign. If Repubs win the House and take more seats in the Senate, they cannot then look at each other and say, “now what do we do?” I think Obama is not worried about a R-controlled House or even Senate. He has the press and the unions in his corner.
The real kicker is the people here say that the liberal newsmedia are bias and yet it doesn't stop people from believing this taken out of context.
If the Republicans DO by some fantastic stroke of the miraculous capture the House in November, THIS is reason #1 to DISQUALIFY him from consideration for Speaker of the House.
That's a good point.
When will Republicans ever learn to stay away from the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms?
Allow me...
It's the SPENDING not the REVENUE tax dollars seized by force from productive citizens......but of course they know POWER is lost if they stop taking from those that have in order to give to buy the votes of those that don't.
What is the precise, agreed upon, financial definition of the term “rich”????????????????????
Ok, so tell me what was good about that interview?
Was it productive or counterproductive?
LEt’s correct what is really happening ...
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans would KEEP OVER $700 billion IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, GROWING PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT, SAVINGS, JOBS AND SPENDING over the next decade.
DO WE NEED MORE PRIVATE JOBS OR NOT?
Huh,
Can you read? He and his aide both said it. IT’S in the WSJ!
“A Boehner aide said the congressman would accept a compromise that doesn’t extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans if talks remain stalled over the next three weeks; Congress is scheduled to breaks at that time for the November midterm elections. “
“I want to do something for all Americans who pay taxes,” Mr. Boehner said, adding that extending rates for all income brackets would help the economy grow and create jobs. “If the only option I have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, I’ll vote for it.
+1 - Boehner's performance on CBS was awful - That he once again allows the GOP to be walked into a false premise type argument is foolishness - He has helped the MSM here to cause problems for the GOP and to help them spin a premise in favor for Obama (as if Obama is cutting taxes for the middle class...and GWB was only cutting taxes for the Rich).
Boehner's performance sucked! It sucked at a time when we can't afford such miserable performances. He needs to be out in force starting AM tomorrow. Hitting all the radio shows and putting the tax debate back under the correct premise....
I wonder if Boehner emails the car dealer ahead of time when he’s going shopping and declares “I have a budget of $35,000, but I’m going to try to negotiate with you for much less than that.”
Boehner Opens Door in Tax Talks
WSJ ^ | 9/12/2012 | Josh Mitchess and Jess Brevin
Here is another headline to change...
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