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Chuck Schumer: 'Tea Party Does Not Favor Cutting Taxes'
Pundit Press ^ | 12/13/10 | Aurelius

Posted on 12/13/2010 1:42:53 PM PST by rightistight

Something tells me that most of the Democrats did not get the message of last month's election. Apparently they prefer to shove their head in the sand (and most likely somewhere else), and pretend that it never happened.

And then there is New York Senator Chuck Schumer. Not only does Senator Schumer deny that the election had any real significance, but that it might have had the opposite affect that people believe it did. In a recent interview, Schumer stated:

“Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle said, ‘Did you hear the mandate of the election?’ Well, I ran this year, I got 66 percent of the vote in my state. And I saw lots of people and lots of angry people. . . . But not a single one of them, from the tea party or anywhere else, said give tax breaks to the millionaires.”

That's weird because I don't know if I've ever heard of a Tea Partier who was against tax cuts. But hey, what are facts to Chuck Schumer, right?

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Once again, a Rat speaking out of his...tail
1 posted on 12/13/2010 1:42:57 PM PST by rightistight
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To: rightistight

Let’s see .... Tea Party .... No Taxation without Representation .....

No, I don’t see a connection either < /s>

This Rat must be a product of our 25th place Public Enducation system.


2 posted on 12/13/2010 1:48:08 PM PST by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: rightistight
I'm not sure who speaks for the "Tea Party," but I'm pretty confident that all I know favor cutting Chuck (THE SCHMUCK) Schumer.

ML/NJ

3 posted on 12/13/2010 1:48:27 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: rightistight

TEA: Taxed Enough Already. Why would any liberal think that is related to taxes?


4 posted on 12/13/2010 1:48:59 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: rightistight

And Scummie is saying this because??


5 posted on 12/13/2010 1:50:02 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: rightistight

When you are back to the wall, you lash out with whatever is available, or you capitulate. The Dems, The Leftists are lashing out with bullshit.

They apparently are using the old confusion tactic of trying to make we the people think our actions are backfiring on us, and trying to cause us pause in our direction to regain our government by arrogantly steaming ahead at full speed.


6 posted on 12/13/2010 1:52:18 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: rightistight

hey Chuck...which taxes are being cut?


7 posted on 12/13/2010 2:01:27 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: rightistight
Funny how DIMs like Chuck 'The Schmuck' Schumer always insert the word millionaire into their statements to disguise the fact that the upper class hikes would affect people starting at $250,000. Most people are smart enough to know that that's small business owners. They use 'millionaire' because it elicits a class envy/class racism response.
8 posted on 12/13/2010 2:04:23 PM PST by LoneStarGI (Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
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To: rightistight
LOL. Chuckie The Schumer may have a point.

Let's cut everyone's taxes except for millionaires in New York.

9 posted on 12/13/2010 2:10:36 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: LoneStarGI
Funny how DIMs like Chuck 'The Schmuck' Schumer always insert the word millionaire into their statements to disguise the fact that the upper class hikes would affect people starting at $250,000.

I forget. What is the salary of U.S. Senators?

10 posted on 12/13/2010 2:12:45 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rightistight

I’m a Tea Partier and Chuck The Schmuck does not speak for me.


11 posted on 12/13/2010 2:13:29 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rightistight
Well, I ran this year, I got 66 percent of the vote in my state.

That is perhaps the saddest statement I'll ever hear in my lifetime.

Along with, "More people get their news from ABC News than any other source."

12 posted on 12/13/2010 2:14:48 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Partially right,

What is on the table is whether tax rates will go up or not. The question before us wasn’t a tax cut, it was a question of maintaining the current rates.


13 posted on 12/13/2010 2:19:22 PM PST by dila813
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To: rightistight

Less taxes, smaller government, less restriction on the private market.

That about it folks?


14 posted on 12/13/2010 2:20:33 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: rightistight

Schumer, I’m tea party and I am for cutting taxes until you are a penniless drunk living on skid row.


15 posted on 12/13/2010 2:23:34 PM PST by upsdriver (to undo the damage the "intellectual elites" have done. . . . . Sarah Palin for President!)
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To: rightistight

Prominent Tea Partiers including Jim DeMint have expressed opposition to the current tax compromise circulating in Washington. In exchange for a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts, Republicans have agreed to Democrats’ demand for additional spending approximately paralleling the first stimulus bill. This stealth “Stimulus II” has been called out by no less than Charles Krauthammer, who calls the tax compromise the “Swindle of the Year”: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_16820157

I doubt Chuck Schumer wants a spotlight thrown on this, but if his comments serve that purpose, great. The Bush tax-cut extensions are vital, but it’s also vital that we address out-of-control Democrat spending.


16 posted on 12/13/2010 2:25:48 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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To: rightistight

wow... its worse that the GOP didn’t get the message.


17 posted on 12/13/2010 2:26:07 PM PST by GeronL (#7 top poster at CC, friend to all, nicest guy ever, +96/-14, ignored by 1 sockpuppet.. oh & BANNED)
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To: rightistight

Taxed Enough Already. That means we don’t want tax increases. And that’s exactly what undoing the Bush tax cuts would do.

Just to avoid further inadventant mistakes, and in case Shumer is reading Free Republic: Chuck, we also want government spending to be cut. A Whole Lot.


18 posted on 12/13/2010 2:26:22 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Hodar

I'm a tea partier, Chuck. I favor adding a checkbox to the IRS form that allows wealthy people, of their own free will, to indicate they want to contribute more to the government coffers. They should feel free to write as big a check as they want; but should not expect any special consideration in return for it.


19 posted on 12/13/2010 2:27:00 PM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: rightistight

Degenerate marxist animals like Schumer must be dispatched with extreme prejudice if this Republic is to survive.


20 posted on 12/13/2010 2:30:36 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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