House GOP Rejects Obama Jobs Proposals [Will Obama Take $447B Jobs Plan To "Every Corner"?]

CBS News ^ | September 17, 2011

[Steelfish]

September 17, 2011 House GOP Rejects Obama Jobs Proposals

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders say they are rejecting President Barack Obama's jobs proposals to rebuild schools and blighted neighborhoods, and help keep state and local employees on the job.

In a memo to GOP lawmakers that was also issued publicly and reprinted in The New York Times, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and other Republican leaders also objected to the president's proposal for a temporary reduction in payroll taxes, in order to boost consumer spending and increase demand.

The GOP leaders say such a temporary reduction means taxes will go up later when the reduction expires in 2013.

"While employees would see an additional temporary benefit from this proposal in 2012," they wrote, "they would experience a larger effective tax increase 12 months later when the payroll tax reverted back to its full level.

"There may be significant unforeseen downsides to large temporary tax cuts immediately followed by large tax increases," they added.

Boehner and his GOP colleagues also say that Mr. Obama's move to tax the wealthy claiming itemized deductions will hurt churches and other nonprofits.

The memo says Mr. Obama's proposal to spend $50 billion to repair and improve infrastructure and to create a $10 billion national infrastructure bank is "adding more money to the same broken system," and is "more likely to produce waste and inefficiency than meaningful results."

The Republicans supported a proposal by Mr. Obama to delay a law requiring the U.S. government to withhold 3 percent of its payments to contractors for good and services as income tax. House Republicans call the withholding law "onerous," and want it repealed outright.

Boehner said he is willing to negotiate on extending payroll tax cuts for both workers and employers.

[God luvs America]

“House Republican leaders say they are rejecting President Barack Obama’s jobs proposals to rebuild schools and blighted neighborhoods, and help keep state and local employees on the job. “

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nope, no bias here....

[Steelfish]

Will Obama’s Joint-Session speech threatening to take his $447B jobs plan to “every corner of this country” now be in launch mode? Will tens of thousands flock to hear him? How about a million man march to DC? Or will he incite Bloomberg’s riot on the streets? Will Soros unleash his billions to help Obama?

The coming 2012 war has just begun.

[Castigar]

“House Republican leaders say they are rejecting President Barack Obama’s jobs proposals to rebuild schools and blighted neighborhoods, and help keep state and local employees on the job. “

nope, no bias here....”

Hahaha! Was just about to say the same thing. I am 100% sure that House Republicans said nothing of the sort! That is SO bad I wonder how they can look at themselves in the mirror when they report like this!

[mainepatsfan]

“House Republican leaders say they are rejecting President Barack Obama’s jobs proposals to rebuild schools and blighted neighborhoods, and help keep state and local employees on the job. “ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

nope, no bias here....

You'd think they'd at least have enough sense to reword the White House talking points rather than just reprint them.

[Jeff Head]

"House Republican leaders say they are rejecting President Barack Obama's jobs proposals to rebuild schools and blighted neighborhoods, and help keep state and local employees on the job. "

How typical of the MSM...the GOP is against rebuilding schools and blighted neighborhoods.

Bunch of leftist sociopaths spreading propoganda better than Pravda ever did.

The GOP is actually rejecting a plan that leads to the destruction of this country and her economy which will lead to all neighboods being blighted by this Marxist President.

Watch THIS VIDEO.

[truthguy]

Let's see now. We just spent a trillion on a stimulus package that all can agree didn't work. It didn't jump start the economy. It didn't create any jobs in the aggregate and most would agree made things worst. So with these obvious results what does Obama propose? More of the same!

Two Comments:

1. Hey Obama, learn the first rule of holes; when you are in a hole- Stop Digging.

2. The definition of insanity is to keep trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

[God luvs America]

that’s basically it...

[Siena Dreaming]

Boehner and his GOP colleagues also say that Mr. Obama's move to tax the wealthy claiming itemized deductions will hurt churches and other nonprofits.

I always thought it was strange that Obama was going after charitable deductions, even for the rich.

The only conclusion I can make is that he wants the Fed Gov't to swoop in and rescue the charities that would be left high and dry.

[Truth29]

"The only conclusion I can make is that he wants the Fed Gov't to swoop in and rescue the charities that would be left high and dry."

Or he believes that all private charity is illegitimate and a threat because it is not under his control - all public assistance should only come from the government.

[Sacajaweau]

I think we should just invest in solar panels, give GM 2% of all taxes, fund trips to the Netherlands to look at windmills....and Tulips and give more money to Planned Parenthood because kids are sooooo inconvenient and they know what to do.

Can you tell that I'm raging today!!

[Bean Counter]

Considering the overwhelming evidence of malfeasance and out right felonious conduct over Solyndra, and the fact that there may be four or five more just like it out there ready to file Chapter 11 as well, there isn’t a Congress Critter who is up for reelection in 2012 that is going to come anywhere near endorsing or sponsoring an additional fiasco like this “infrastructure bank” is shaping up to be. There is fraud writ large afoot over the first “stimulus” and there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of another one making it out of Congress any time soon.

[cc2k]

From the article:

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Boehner said he is willing to negotiate on extending payroll tax cuts for both workers and employers.

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Can Boehner and the Republicans see this trap for what it is?

As soon as a Republican controlled Congress passes a "payroll tax holiday," the Republicans will be 100% responsilbe for cutting the funding sources for Social Security and will be responsible for that system going broke. The Party Propaganda Ministry has probably already written all the stories about how "Social Security would have been safe for a decade if only the Republicans hadn't cut off funding by giving tax cuts to their friends."

Other than this, it's interesting how See-BS omits mentioning the fact that no Democrat in the house has bothered to sponsor the President's bill and drop it in the hopper. As of now, this bill has not even been introduced in the House of Representatives.

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Happy Constitution day, September 17, 2011.        — cc2k

[G Larry]

Response to Barack:

“Get your damn over regulation and overspending out of the way, and the FREE MARKET will create millions of new jobs, without another Federal nickle!”

[quesney]

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders say they are rejecting President Barack Obama’s jobs proposals to rebuild schools, blighted neighborhoods, help keep state and local employees on the job, save the economy, save the world, fight evil, protect children and look out for old ladies.

Republicans said they prefer to destroy the economy, pensions and steal lollipops from little children.

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That might’ve been a little more transparent. Nice “reporting” CBS.