Posted on 07/21/2010 6:04:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 07/21/2010 7:26:20 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just when you thought Congress was spent -- literally -- and done for the year they'll turn around and surprise you. No money left to do anything? United Republican opposition? Democrats are planning to take on the great white whale of spending: extending President Bush's middle class tax cuts. The cost is estimated from $1.6 trillion to extend them to as much as $2.7 trillion to make them permanent. According to Senate Democratic sources, the latter is what they're going to go for -- and they're planning to do it before the midterm elections.
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Exactly. The rats have been running against the “Bush Tax Cuts” since they were passed. I don’t see them adopting any of his policies after blaming him for every economic failure they’ve caused. They will look like the foolish filthy rats that they are.
No president has the power to tax, increase or reduce those in existence, this labeling of some tax cuts as Bush's, other tax increases as 0bama's, it's making me crazy. CONGRESS is the body doing it, regardless which president signs the legislation into law.
Thank you, I step down off my pedant soap box now. ;)
Yeah, but we'd run him out as a dirty RINO from Massachusetts. ;-)
That’s a great analogy.....everything leading up to the coup de’gras, the health care bill, monetary controls, the stimulus bill, the TARP bill, etc., prepared the economy for it’s death just as the daggers to the back of the bull’s neck prepared him for the sword.
Far too polite. I was going to suggest that they pulled it from a particular bodily orifice, but....
ouch....I had 5 1099’s last year from off duty police work. I’m going to hate my taxes next year.
I guess this is REALLY Bush’s fault.
There is still a terrible price to pay up ahead for Obama’s utopian socialism. You will see it when 75% of your pay goes to federal taxes....plus the state taxes.
“Dems to Extend Bush’s Middle Class Tax Cuts”
Sure they will.
The only sure thing is there will be a whole lotta talkin’ about extending the tax cuts the closer the elections get.
Exactly. Why do I just know that I am going to be *&(@#$ in all this?
...and Obama is a stinky albatrosses around the Libs necks. (as long as we are going for classical literature metaphors)
The leftists/communists/DemocRATs ALWAYS promise tax cuts or extending tax cuts BEFORE elections.
Their actions AFTER elections prove them to be liars 100% of the time.
How do conservatives make this case? The only place they will be able to get the message out is Fox News, where most of the viewers ALREADY KNOW THIS. The rest of the media will censor the conservative message.
Too much, too little, too late. In the long haul it is good for us but they are only doing it because they ALL know they have pink slips waiting to be fired.
They’ll just take credit for them.
Rather than say they are extending Bush tax cuts, they’ll call them “new Obama measures to assist the struggling middle class”.
Why are democrats only interested in cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans?
Oh...wait...that was only what they were saying when Bush wanted them in the first place.
Brilliant - exactly the way the Republicans should play it.
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