Posted on 12/08/2010 2:17:44 PM PST by onyx
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Wednesday came out against the tax-cut deal President Obama brokered with Republicans.
The potential 2012 presidential candidate endorsed a Twitter post that applauded Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) criticism of the deal.
"Thank you, @JimDeMint - DeMint comes out against tax deal, says GOP must do ‘better than this,'" reads the message from conservative commentator Jedediah Bila.
Palin cannot vote on the deal, which is also unpopular with liberals, but she is a major voice within the Republican Party and arguably its most well-known member.
Under the proposed compromise, all of the expiring Bush tax cuts would be extended for two years in exchange for a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits and a 2 percent reduction of the payroll tax next year.
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and a number of GOP lawmakers have applauded the deal and several conservative publications and groups have backed the compromise.
Don't cave! This deal sux!
Don’t cave! This deal sux!
From a business and employment point of view, the 35% tax on estates over $5 million is a job killer. If I had a large estate and was getting up in years, I would need to keep 35% of the value of my business liquid so that my family would be able to keep the business and not be forced to sell to pay the taxes. That means that monies that could be paying wages and benefits are going to be sitting idle.
Republicans should have gotten the message from the Nov. 2nd election even if the democrats didn’t. The message was “STOP digging”. What they are telling us is “But it’s just another trillion! After that trillion, we can start scaling back.” What part of “NO” does McConnell not understand.
Palin again demonstrates that she gets it and that she has no fear. Refreshing....
You’re right!
Senator DeMint “gets it” and in the House, Michele Bachmann “gets it.”
As far as I know, the others are absentee!
This lameduck needs to be shot down. Adjourn already. Go home. They’ve done enough damage.
Thirteen more months of unemployment extension? That should have never gotten into the “deal.”
Six months MAX!
Yes, but what did Sarah have to say about this 20 years ago???
Sorry, couldn't resist ;^)
Give them hell Sarah!
Tax cuts must be permanent.
DeMint was the leader here. Everyone else is a follower. The courage lies with Jim DeMint.
Yes,this deal is even worse than Obama’s original proposal,a surtax on million-dollar earners. At least that wasn’t a direct raid on the treasury (infinite unemployment benefits) and social security.
Did you call George Soros before making that post?
There is no need to make a deal. My opinion is remove the sunset provision on the current tax tables, making them permanent.
Allow the sunset on the 99 week unemployment insurance compensation to take place and revert back to the original 26 weeks for anyone that applies after the sunset. Which was the original agreement. Otherwise we will have people taking advantage of the 99 week provision by going back to work for a period of time and then off again for 99 weeks. Let Obama veto it. Lay the tax increase right in the rats lap.
Yep. Looks like Obama got what he wanted. This will further drain social security and medicare so he can replace them with his obamacare.
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Mitch McConnell isn’t any kind of conservative, that’s for sure.
All this deal is is more borrowing and spending. What was cut to fund this? Nothing. And isn’t there about 2/3 of the TARP money still sitting around, unspent? Either turn that money back in or use it to fund Unemployment benefits....but then that system needs reforming, too! Why should the taxpayer have to pay for someone’s unemployment benefits just because there aren’t any jobs in their career history? Can’t they do something else?
WHO said he wasn't or isn't? Sarah Palin is signing his praises! (DUH)
DeMint is the only one is the whole of the US Senate who "gets it."
Aside from self-described "Socialist" Bernie Sanders for all thw rong reasons.
It’s horrid. Now there’s an article about obama telling his democrats ‘you better pass this deal” and another article saying that Reid wants to add “online poker” to the “tax deal.”
LibLieSlayer is right. If it goes through, it’ll be 8000 pages of pork and all sorts of crap.
Kill it and shoot the lameduck.
Right, McConnell is just a ‘go-alongtoget-along Republican.’
Let’s make a deal and them cave to the next piece of legislative crap and call that one a “win” too.
ENOUGH.
Adjourn.
This “tax deal” is even written. FGS.
The Marxists democrats ruined Christmas last year by ramming obamacare down our throats, and they're on their way to making it two Christmases in a row.
ENOUGH.
Kill this monster.
Put the squeeze on dumplin ears. Say no to the the tax deal that includes extending the sunset on the 99 weeks unemployment insurance. Let’s give him the option of making the current tax tables permanent or raising taxes on pretty much everyone. Let him veto it and put the blame squarely on them where it belongs.
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