Posted on 12/15/2012 8:52:53 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
WASHINGTON (AP) — Signaling new movement in "fiscal cliff" talks, House Speaker John Boehner has proposed raising the top rate for earners making more than $1 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said. President Barack Obama, who wants higher top rates for households earning more than $250,000, has not accepted the offer, this person said.
The proposal, however, indicated progress in talks that had appeared stalled. The person would only discuss the plan on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.
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The "high earners" invest their money and create SUSTAINABLE JOBS for other people.
Government does not create sustainable jobs, because government does not do anything at a profit.
Only companies that earn profit pay taxes and pay wages to employees who pay taxes on their wages.
Without investment, there is no profit, and without profit there are no taxes or jobs.
>> because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.
Hogwash.
Doesn’t really matter whether Boehner offers anything or not. Taxes are going up. Nothing the Republicans can do will stop it.
“The “high earners” invest their money and create SUSTAINABLE JOBS for other people. “
And when they have to get more taxes for the government they draw it from their least productive investments- hurting poorer, younger, abd less educated workers.
The very people who elect the Democrats.
Barry knows his way around a Boehner. He’ll get his 250 grand.
He’s getting #%*$ed. He’s giving in on tax hikes for the wealthy to prevent tax hikes on the middle class and defense cuts come January 1. It sucks. It makes Dems feel good but doesn’t help the country one bit.
Brutal, but catches everything wrong with the body language of both of those culls.
Boehner is like the cheerleader who craves the attention and status of dating the team captain. Boehner wants to make out with Obama so bad he doesn’t even know he’s about to get screwed silly.
It will be hilarious when Obama dumps him. Poor little Boehner will have given away all his leverage. Pout pout.
Problem is we have to pick up the tab for this ditz.
Wow! Who could have seen this one coming?
pubs should be for the working class...for the middle income.....why are we always painted as the evil party of the rich, when we absolutely are not.....
we should not fall on our sword for this issue...
Do not allow the Dems to frame the issue!
The issue is SPEND LESS. NOW - NOT TEN YEARS FROM NOW.
Camel. Tent. Nose.
The GOP needs to dump Boehner now.
Any refusal to make the move just shows me that the GOP are not Conservative. At All. Period
Anything less than going over the fiscal cliff (only way I see spending cuts happening) should be met with civil war. The problem is those on the right won’t do it. It is always easier to say it than to do it. We will just proceed to give up more of our freedoms and earned wealth. But hey, so many will boast that they will do something this time. Bah!
Actually a surprisingly shrewd move in my view, and I’m not a fan of Boehner at all. But he can toss this out there, and it’s purely for rhetorical/political purposes. The problem is supposedly that Repub’s are holding up everything in order to protect the rich. So Boehner says “OK, but $250K ain’t rich, $1 mil is”.
But anyone making a mil a year can easily shift around their income so as to be completely unaffected by a relatively small change in their tax rate. Nobody’s going to pay a lot more in taxes because of this, and that’s why Obama won’t accept it. But if Obama starts whining that “this will hardly help with the budget at all,” Boehner gets to laugh in his face and say, “neither does raising it on 250K and above”.
But if it ends up being just prelude to caving all the way to 250K, then it’s still a loser though, and knowing Boehner, I have to think that might be a likely scenario.
Boehner is doing “WeekEnd at Bernies”..
The republican party is quite DEAD you know..
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