Instead of pulling funding from Obamacare, executive amnesty, the EPA, or the myriad of leftist organization sucking grant money off the government teat, Boehner and McConnell decide to accomplish one thing in the budget process — reward their buddies on Wall Street with a provision that has nothing to do with government spending but may cost the taxpayer trillions when the banks have to be bailed out again!!!
Yep. And it will get worse next year. The Dems are ready for battle with an eye on 2016. While the Dems are going scoreched earth, Ryan is all fired up to cut corporate tax rates. That’s his big battle and it dovetails nicely with the Dem game plan. A pounding Dem populism will wipe the floor with the GOP brand in the next Congress.
“Ryan is all fired up to cut corporate tax rates.”
Not to mention give Obama fast track trade negotiating authority so the multinationals can import more junk merchandise and export more middle class jobs.
It all depends on how messages are sold. If the mantra is ‘we need to make American businesses more competitive, and bring American manufacturing jobs back to America’, it will sell - especially if comparisons are made between what are costs are here vs China etc.
When pushing for lower corporate taxes, there has to also be a push for lower taxes across the board, and a hard driven message that we can't maintain the standard of living that Americans have been blessed with while at the same time lowering wages to the level of wages in China and other countries in which the government sets wages. Make the point that we have to find other ways to make manufacturing in the US cheaper - and one of the most important is lowering corporate taxes. I'm sure American companies generate a substantial amount of tax dollars in foreign countries - and the point should also be made that this is revenue lost to America - paradoxical to high corporate tax rates.
Tell the truth, and tell it well.