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.”
there has to be a clause to remove mentally insane people from positions of government.
or did he just admit all the liberals who are bitching about their healthcare coverqge increasing double or triple have really been rich republicans all along?!?
walking lying joke.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=225196
Harry doesn’t seem to understand the term ‘Capital Strike’. Been going on since 2007, the year the ‘Progressives’ set the agenda. There are still many on ‘slow roll’ that will that’s WILL shut it down!
Good luck on that! I live here and I can tell you, his answering machine never gets emptied!
With all due respect, Senator Reid, you can KMA.
Oh give peer harry a break, we know how unhinged he become when ever he needs his soiled diaper changed.
Well, there you have it.
Next time, according to Harry, the Pubbies' job is to give way on sequestration. Otherwise, he and Obama will shut down the government and blame it on the Republicans.
Anything like a "Grand Bargain" is a pipe-dream -- which, I believe, is a good thing. Why even attempt such a thing with a party that won't negotiate in good faith?
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... Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more... 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... 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... 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... We're just going to have to do something to work our way through sequestration.
Reid is another senator with lots of imaginary acquaintances.
I already pay 6 figures a year in taxes. No, I do not want ti pay more.
He and MOST politicians, Ted Cruz NOT included, have forgotten the cardinal rule of politics.
"The parade only moves as fast as its slowest members."
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