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Pelosi Dodges Question on Whether She Would Make Middle Class Tax Cuts Permanent
Townhall.com ^ | May 10, 2018 | Lauretta Brown

Posted on 05/10/2018 2:03:59 PM PDT by jazusamo

Pelosi Dodges Question on Whether She Would Make Middle Class Tax Cuts Permanent

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dodged some questions Thursday on whether she would tell Democrats to vote for making middle class tax cuts in the GOP tax reform bill permanent.

The moderator referenced Republicans planning a vote to make the middle class tax cuts permanent, asking “are you going to tell Democrats for or against doing that?”

Rather than responding directly, Pelosi bashed Republicans for not making the tax cuts permanent in the first place.

“Well you see, here’s what this is since we’re having a budget meeting,” Pelosi began. “The reason they didn’t make them permanent in the first place was because they were operating under reconciliation and under reconciliation they could only have so much addition to the debt.”

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“So that’s why in their priorities, they chose corporate America over middle class families, because they couldn’t do both,” she continued.

“Maybe they just have something about the middle class that they weren’t going to give them a good deal but nonetheless they didn’t have the ability to do so,” she mused.

“How will Democrats vote on that?” the moderator followed up on extending the middle class tax cuts.

“With all due respect, you never know what they’re going to do,” Pelosi replied of Republicans, saying “I’m not going to be here talking about things that they may or may not do because we just don’t know.”

These remarks come less than a week after Pelosi admitted it was “accurate” that she wanted to raise taxes by rolling back the Republican tax cuts.

Prior to that, Pelosi has repeatedly dismissed bonuses resulting from tax reform as “crumbs.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; middleclass; pelosi; taxcuts
Pelosi has said the Dems will raise taxes if they regain control but avoids answering if they'll make middle class tax cuts permanent if Republicans maintain control.

She needs to retire like yesterday, she's really making a fool of herself.

1 posted on 05/10/2018 2:03:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Evil old communist.


2 posted on 05/10/2018 2:05:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: jazusamo

They’re just “crumbs” anyhow.


3 posted on 05/10/2018 2:05:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: jazusamo; All
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) dodged some questions Thursday on whether she would tell Democrats to vote for making middle class tax cuts in the GOP tax reform bill permanent [??? emphasis added]."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Legislative actions are not permanent; just wait until after next election. So the idea of permanent tax cuts is meaningless.

On the other hand, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes which is “permanent,” depending possibly on new amendments to the Constitution.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.


In other words, noting that I’m a Trump supporter, Pelosi would probably be disappointed to find out that Trump’s tax cut barely put a dent into unconstitutional federal taxes imo, taxes that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

4 posted on 05/10/2018 2:30:18 PM PDT by Amendment10
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5 posted on 05/10/2018 3:03:52 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Of course Pelosi wants to rescind the tax cuts and add more taxes against American Citizens. She and her Buddies in congress don’t give a rat’s @$$ about us. Just themselves and the money they can take from us and put into their own pockets. And the DemonRATS have been doing this for DECADES!!!!!


6 posted on 05/10/2018 3:06:05 PM PDT by RollingThunder (i LIBERAL - Lying Idiotic B-tard Endangering Real American Lives)
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To: jazusamo

Democrats will raise your taxes and impeach your president. Pelosi’s message should motivate the biggest turn out of Republicans in the history of off-year elections.


7 posted on 05/10/2018 3:20:04 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

Their main platform points are those two, plus unfettered immigration and arming Iran with nuclear weapons.


8 posted on 05/10/2018 3:23:05 PM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She wants to take away those crumbs from the very people that need them. Go ahead Nancy, continue to be the idiot you always have been.


9 posted on 05/10/2018 3:29:20 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: jazusamo
Well you see, here’s what this is P>When someone starts out with that, you know it is a no.
10 posted on 05/10/2018 5:00:37 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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