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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” the Republican cabal allow Democrats to run amok while they silence small-government conservatives. “
FACT
IF the house is retaken, why would the newly elected congressmen vote for Boehner?
They would form a block all their own and be king makers.
Why do people who struggle so hard to gain power, never yield it when they have it?
UGH
Michelle Bachman for Speaker of the House.
DITTO DITTO DITTO
That Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts at all must be seen as total capitulation on the philosophical question of whether tax cuts are good for an economy.
The Republicans should ask why exactly are the Democrats willing to cut taxes at all? Aren’t taxes good?
This is why we need principled conservatives instead of Boehner-like get alongs.
First of all stop using the language of the socialists. Tax cuts for the rich is really lower taxes and thus costs, for business owners. What a douche.
Better yet, just agree with them and change the dialog to tax cuts for employers.
Just like the rats did by going with progressive...we’ll just change the words we use to describe what we want.
We are against tax cuts for the Rich who will just stash the money away, but are for tax cuts for those hard working american’s who own a business and employee others.
Exactly! We need to take this to them. Now that they are agreeing that tax cuts do spur economic growth the question is how big and how widespread.
We can agree that we don’t want to just give the “lazy rich” a tax cut, but the working rich, the small business owners, those that employ others, and those that have the means to move their capital away from being taxed at all should get a tax cut. I guess that just leaves John Kerry as the lazy rich guy to tax :-)
Said in another way
If you don't retreat to fight another day what other small trivial things will you fall on your sword over?
See what I did there :-)
For a conservative to win the public, he must TEACH the public why THEY are conservative and why conservatism is a winning philosophy.
Ronald Reagan did that. Others have tried...but few can do it the way Ronnie did.
The temptation to be a RINO is too great for ANY Washington insider. If you are out looking for a job, would you rather look among the people who will qualify for Obama’s tax breaks, or among the people who will not? Obama’s tax breaks are calculated gimmicks because he does not understand what makes the economy sound. He is only looking for votes and favors in his actions, but even his supporters are beginning to realize that they need jobs on the earnings side, not temporary gimmicks on the supply side.
For a conservative to win the public, he must TEACH the public why THEY are conservative and why conservatism is a winning philosophy.
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And thats why we’re doomed. But even if a Reagan to the tenth power showed up tomorrow, the best he could do would be to slow the path to marxism. Regan managed to slow it, didn’t gain any ground the other way, and no one will.
The reason I know this is even hard core anti-liberals think that the democrats ideas are well meaning, just bad ideas that wont work. The agenda is to destroy, not fix, and once everyones options to opt out of their collective hell are destroyed it’ll be the only choice.
You see these people arguing his policy won’t improve the economy, and the other side arguing how it will, like improving it is even the objective.
“Rich” and “weathly” are conveniently maleable terms useful to the socialists in power. Incomes considered middle-class today will likely be deemed “weathly” tomorrow based on nothing more than a whim of the Imposter-in-Chief.
“Another “meet em halfway” Roy Blunt type.
What a disappointment.”
I would be happy with half way. This compromise (like almost all compromises with the rats) is really ceding almost everything to them. The whole idea of separating the rich and non rich is Marxist speech. The tax code is so convoluted even without this last compromise. Imposing confiscatory taxation on the most productive will seriously undermine the economy.
The Democrats would love for us to eat our own right before the November elections. This kind of infighting is what they want!
Boehner’s actual quote doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. It’s the reality of the situation. Obama won’t sign tax cuts for the “rich”. But if he vetoes tax cuts for the poor and middle class, then he really looks like the bad guy. This is good for Republicans.
When I heard Boehner make his asinine comment about extending tax cuts for we little people, but not on the ‘wealthy’, I sent him an email explaining the facts of life as we, the unemployed, see them.
I told him that if he allowed the tax cuts to expire on those making over 250,000, we unemployed folks will remain unemployed.
Let me see: Save probably $50, or have a real job. Tough choice.
In addition, I reminded him that NO Republican in many years has ‘worked with’ the dems with any degree of success.
I am disappointed in his stupid offer. I thought he was smarter than that.
I wrote him also, I think he got the message today...from Rush too.
Paul Ryan also said NOT to negotiate down right now, hope he speaks with the leadership.
They are full of bad habits!
You should never negotiate with terrorists. The Dems certainly fall into that category: they’ve been terrorizing business and taxpayers for decades.
This was a strategic move on whasisname’s part, and I don’t think it should be held against him.
I seem to recall that years ago the top brackets paid about 70% of income in taxes. I think the top rate is now down to around 35%. So actually, have the wealthy done so bad over the years?
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