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Harry Reid: 'Everybody ... Willing to Pay More' Taxes
The Weekly Standard ^ | Oct 24, 2013 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 10/24/2013 3:00:33 PM PDT by mdittmar

Senate majority leader Harry Reid says that "Everybody" is "willing to pay more" taxes. He said so in an interview with a Nevada Public Radio host.

“The only people who feel there shouldn’t be more coming in to the federal government from the rich people are the Republicans in the Congress,” Reid told the radio host, according to Roll Call. “Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.”

Reid rebuked the Nevada Public Radio host when he was asked what Republicans would have to concede to get Medicare and Social Security cuts on the table.

“You keep talking about Medicare and Social Security. Get something else in your brain. Stop talking about that. That is not going to happen this time. There is not going to be a grand bargain,” Reid said. “What we need to do is have Murray and her counterpart in the House, Ryan, work together to come up with something to get out of this senseless sequestration and start the budgeting process so that we can do normal appropriation bills.”

Reid said Republicans would have to agree to more tax revenue to get anywhere near a bigger deal.

“They have their mind set on doing nothing, nothing more on revenue, and until they get off that kick, there’s not going to be a grand bargain on — there’s not going to be a small bargain,” Reid said. “We’re just going to have to do something to work our way through sequestration.”



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: harryreid; nevada
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Gotta get our mind right,says harry.
1 posted on 10/24/2013 3:00:33 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

It’s time to flood Reid’s office with phone calls, emails, faxes, tweets, facebook posts, and anything else that lets him know that he’s a blooming idiot for making such an assertion.


2 posted on 10/24/2013 3:03:55 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: mdittmar
Everybody? He did not ask me.
Or any conservative. I guess we don't count.

3 posted on 10/24/2013 3:04:05 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: mdittmar

What he means is everybody who votes for him is willing to make other people pay more taxes.


4 posted on 10/24/2013 3:05:45 PM PDT by Hugin
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To: BitWielder1

When will Charlie Rangel pay just what he already owes?


5 posted on 10/24/2013 3:05:49 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: A dark spot in this country's history.)
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To: BitWielder1

“...would have to agree to more tax revenue...”

If it is more revenue they want, reduce taxes. Starting with the Obamacare “tax”.


6 posted on 10/24/2013 3:06:07 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: mdittmar
Harry Reid, you don't speak for me you piece of human excrement. You are one sorry lowlife piece of trash. If I wanted to pay more taxes, I WOULD FREAKIN VOTE FOR LOSERS LIKE YOU, YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING MORON! WHY DON'T YOU JUST DROP DEAD AND SAVE THE OXYGEN FOR PEOPLE WHO DESERVE IT!!!!!!!
7 posted on 10/24/2013 3:06:07 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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I just asked a bizillionaire and he says HELL NO he is not willing to pay more taxes!

And he and his wife are DEMOCRATS (at least WERE Democrats - but it's getting harder and harder to stay Democrats). And believe me, I forward all this crap to them to make sure they know how Democrats in Congress feel about them.

8 posted on 10/24/2013 3:06:31 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: mdittmar

I recall that there wer a few members of our current president’s cabinet who weren’t willing to pay more taxes, and didn’t.


9 posted on 10/24/2013 3:06:32 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: mdittmar

My travel dollars do not go to Las Vegas.

Obama told me not to go there.

Until the unions to told him to shut up.

I am still not going to Nevada.


10 posted on 10/24/2013 3:07:02 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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To: mdittmar

“Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that guy behind the tree.”


11 posted on 10/24/2013 3:07:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Uh, no ..... especially when new Obamacare premiums, deductibles, etc. could be 1/4 or more of your income. Where is the money going to come from .... can’t afford mandated Obamacare and potentially won’t have enough left to live on? After Obamacare, people should be squealing like stuck pigs at the mere mention of more ‘taxes’.


12 posted on 10/24/2013 3:08:04 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: MissMagnolia

I totally agree.


13 posted on 10/24/2013 3:08:35 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Hugin

Everyone who voted for Harry Reid is willing to double their tax liability. That will take it from $1 to $2.


14 posted on 10/24/2013 3:09:29 PM PDT by GeorgeTex (Obama-The Ultimate Terrorist Weapon.)
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To: mdittmar

Democrats do not compromise. It’s not like they need to. The GOPe has already signalled they will surrender on every issue.


15 posted on 10/24/2013 3:09:43 PM PDT by GeronL
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everybody except Charlie Rangel, Obama’s cabinet, General Electric, Google, Warren Buffett (despite what he says), Microsoft, etc., etc.


16 posted on 10/24/2013 3:10:47 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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“Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.”

So, whats's stopping them?
17 posted on 10/24/2013 3:12:36 PM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: mdittmar

My GOD, he is so full of shit.


18 posted on 10/24/2013 3:12:51 PM PDT by Marathoner (What are we waiting for? Where are the Articles of Impeachment?)
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To: mdittmar

OK Harry, let’s start out with getting rid of the earned income tax credit. After that we can start taxing welfare benefits.


19 posted on 10/24/2013 3:12:54 PM PDT by forgotten man
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I know a way.

A weekly lottery. Pay ten thousand buckks for a shot at the plate with a wichester with iron sights at 500 yards.

Only the plate being Reid’s head.

It’ll be both a poll and a funder.


20 posted on 10/24/2013 3:13:19 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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