Posted on 03/05/2015 1:55:34 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: From TheHill.com: "Democrats Launch Tax Offensive." The Democrats are now trying, because they see a Republican Party paralyzed, they see a Republican Party running the House and running the Senate which is doing nothing, the Democrat Party has decided to steal the tax cut issue from them.
"Senate and House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a package of tax cuts aimed at helping the middle class as part of a new political offensive against Republicans. Three members of the Senate Democratic leadership, Sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.), Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Patty Murray (Wash.) are leading the effort 'to challenge Republicans to join them in cutting taxes for working families, not just the wealthiest Americans,' according to a Democratic aide.
"Murray, the ranking member on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has authored two of the proposals, the 21st Century Worker Tax Cut Act and the Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act. The first introduces a new tax credit worth up to $1,000 for families in which both parents work."
Now, ladies and gentlemen, tax cuts are a classic Republican issue. Cutting taxes to spur economic growth, cutting -- now, the Democrat tax cut is not marginal rates. The Democrats, I don't think, are gonna go that far, but they're still stealing the terminology. And of course here we have the Republicans, the party that is supposedly in power sitting around giving in to Obama on amnesty, and the Democrats moving forward, "You know what? These guys, if they're gonna just sit on their butts, let's take their issues from them, let's just totally denude them."
Now, the truth of the matter is, I must be honest about this. The Republicans have been putting forth tax reform proposals for over a year. We just don't know about it because those proposals never got out of the House. The Republican controlled House of Representatives has put together a whole slew of tax cut bills, and Harry Reid buried every one of them in the Senate.
So there is a strategy open to the Republicans on this. Whether or not they will utilize it, I haven't sleight idea. But one of the things they could do is to simply say, "You know what, I'm glade you guys on the Democrat side are starting to see it our way. We have proposed tax cut measures for the last year, year and a half," and then list 'em. Put 'em on the easel, put 'em on the big chart, whatever, illustrate to people what the various tax cut proposals have been, and then point out you Democrats were nowhere near. You wouldn't support 'em, the tax cut ideas that we passed the House got killed and bottled up in the Senate.
Try to make it look like the Democrats are Johnny-come-latelies to this. And welcome them. This is how you play the game. You stay on offense. You own this issue. Republicans own tax cuts. Democrats finally come around to the idea they want to propose 'em. Praise them. Welcome them to finally doing something right, if they've got the gumption. This is just what we don't know. We don't know if the Republicans have enough confidence to even play it that way or if they're gonna run around and skulk now that the Democrats have stolen another issue.
"Well, Mr. Limbaugh, we'd like to take your advice but the media will just call us liars and the media will accuse us of shutting down the government, so there's really nothing we can do." Okay, fine. Then why do you even want to win? "Well, we want to be chairman of committees, 'cause then we get to apportion the money." Oh, okay. Well, you got that.
I’ve never been one for a third party. The challenge before us has always been to take the reigns from the GOPe.
However, this story suggests a path where there is no other option - that the GOP is demolished by the ‘Rat droppings to the point where there is no GOP for the GOPtp to take over anymore.
The parties want to talk tax cuts, but they don’t really want to do it. Taxes are one of the ways they control us.
Nigel Farage spoke to CPAC last week noting that the UK, and I think the US as well, is a Corporatist state run by Big Business, Big Banks and Big Government.
Its time for a 3rd party that reaches both sides like UKIP in the UK which drew 2/3rds of Conservative voters and 40 percent of Labour voters in special elections held late last year.
Everyone who works & earns gets a cut, period.
Also a candidate will promise anything to get elected and if he or she does, forgets the promises that were made
There is no other alternative. We must have another party. The GOP is what it is and is never going to change from within. The party apparatus and culture is too deeply embedded for it to ever reform itself.
How many more decades of failure, weakness and incompetence do we need to see? The GOP base is suffers from the political equivalent of battered wife syndrome. The party keeps crapping all over it but the base dutifully keeps on voting for them. Its really incomprehensible.
Dems are for it? Some how I see my taxes going up.
Why continue to subsidize failure? If the GOP was a business it would have gone bankrupt years ago. It does not produce a “product” that is worthy of buying IMO. Like any failed project, at some point you have to let it go.
I guarantee you’re right about that. Good post.
I am running for president and my plan for taxes is a 20% cut across the board.
Every working taxpaying American will be granted a tax free year of employment every 5 years. This would allow a person to work for themselves and their family alone for about 6 to 7 years out of a lifetime of labor.
It is not impossible but difficult to be successful in business because taxes and regulations hold down business owners who are not connected to the government. Everything is big business. The GOP as a big business and the GOP is connected to the government so they must be playing the part they are supposed to play.
I can’t really see where the UK Gov’t is doing anything outstanding in their policy. So why is this a good thing?
Lower the rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1912
D vote % 43.1%
D seat % 66.67%
Vote splitting is not an option
The current government led by “Conservative” Prime Minister David Cameron is a farce.
Cameron has doubled the national debt, increased foreign aid, allowed immigration to increase and go unchecked and so on. Cameron even lobbied US Senators by phone recently supporting Obama’s efforts to cut a nuclear deal with Iran.
That’s why United Kingdom Independence Party is in the fight now offering an alternative to business as usual politics. Its leader Nigel Farage tells it like it is including the pretense that the major parties have major differences.
UKIP won the European Parliament Election last year with 27 percent of the vote nationwide. UKIP also won two special elections for parliamentary seats since and is polling in double digit percentages ahead of the May 7th General Election.
The Uniparty collusion of Big Business, Big Banks and Big Government moves forward unchecked regardless of whether D’s or R’s hold power.
They are globalizing the economy, breaking down borders and destroying sovereign nations.
The BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani said today the migration (immigration) patterns are driven by “the single market” and by that he means a world wide economic system.
The GOP as a big business and the GOP is connected to the government
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Watch the GOP soon agree to raise the debt ceiling again. They like spending every bit as much as the Dems do and they don’t see the rising $18 TRILLION debt as a problem.
Yet the gullible GOP base keeps voting for them. Very strange.
If you think a 2/3s democrat congress in this day and age wouldn’t DESTROY the country in a matter of weeks, you’re sorely mistaken. Nothing that enables that circumstance is an option for serious conservatives.
You still haven't told me why this is superior.
In my view, no good thing happens when the right joins with the far left. That's what happened in the 30's here and it kept FDR in power for FOUR terms.
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