Posted on 07/07/2011 11:30:51 AM PDT by mandaladon
Democrats turned to a tried-and-true strategy this week in the fight over the debt ceiling, casting Republicans as the guardians of yacht owners, hedge fund managers and Big Oil.
After a week of speeches laced with populist rhetoric and shortly after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced a vote on a resolution written as a lose-lose for Republicans, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor conceded that his party is open to talking about loopholes, a shift from his previous hard line.
“Voters don’t have a favorable view of millionaires. This is something the president and other Democrats are using to project a populist tone,” said Tom Jensen, director for the Democratic Public Policy Polling. “It’s something that cuts across the party lines, especially in an economic climate like this.”
Republicans are calling the assault a class war, but Democrats say they’re simply pointing out the difference in the two party’s take on who should get perks in the tax code — with their party siding with the middle class.
President Barack Obama has been the driving force, repeatedly laying out the case that corporations and wealthy Americans should contribute more as part of a debt ceiling agreement.
“The debt ceiling should not be something that is used as a gun against the heads of the American people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners, or oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of gasoline has gone up so high,” Obama said during a Twitter town hall on Wednesday.
In the Senate, Reid has even set up a vote — a rarity in the chamber these days — calling on millionaires to pay more taxes, a maneuver that will let Democrats tell voters to look whose side Republicans are on,
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Just trying to help out John Kerry.
““Voters don’t have a favorable view of millionaires”
Voters are driven by jealousy, envy, covetousness, bitterness. And politicians pander to that.
We've got a $1.6T deficit -- and we think that taxing yachts will fix that little problem?
Harry Reid has gotten very rich just being a senator. At least in the private sector, you become a millionaire by producing something other people want to buy. Reid and company produce nothing except hot air, red tape, and red ink.
are you kidding?
The bonehead class warriors define anyone making over $200,000 as a millionaire ..... I guess they assume you can save it all for 5 years and live off credit cards
Now, trust funds, and those who live off of trust funds- lets see the loopholes on those dissolved ...
Using government force to spread the wealth around is Marxism or worse. Government robbing We the People people is tyranny!
I thought the democrats were all in favor of EQUAL treatment under the law?
didn’t Pelosi watch here wealth increase sum 60% in the past year?? something like a jump from $20mill to $44mill??
Obama has been the driving force, repeatedly laying out the case that corporations and wealthy Americans should contribute.
Yep like GE,Wall Street,GM.............
If the race card fails use the wealth card dems have played that card for 70 years.
Problem = American Voter = Stupid is as Stupid does.
Interestingly, in my experience, liberals quiet down very quickly when I tell them John Kerry paid a very low percentage of his annual income in taxes the year he ran for prez (and most likely every year since or before).
It is like crickets, and there is nothing else like it. They just shut their mouths and open their eyes and start looking around.
Maybe they should look at what happened the last time they tried a luxury boat tax, and maybe they should look at what people like me are already doing. I used to employ quite a few people, but I now have no employees at all. Some I set up in business on their own, competing against me. Others lost their jobs. None work for me. My income is down more than 90% since Pelosi started coming after people like me, and it doesn’t hurt me a bit. Sadly, it does hurt my state and my country - but not as much as it would hurt if I gave the far left even more tax dollars for their anti-American policies.
Now, trust funds, and those who live off of trust funds- lets see the loopholes on those dissolved ...
Yet it is the trust funders that seem to push this class warfare rot with the most vigor. Case in point the current governor of Minnesota. Perfect example of limousine liberals, they got theirs, so they are compelled to kick away the ladder so no one else gets remotely near them. Even Georgy Schwartz (George Soros) freely admitted it.
Agree hope the learned what not to do.
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