Posted on 03/05/2015 1:55:34 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: From TheHill.com: "Democrats Launch Tax Offensive." The Democrats are now trying, because they see a Republican Party paralyzed, they see a Republican Party running the House and running the Senate which is doing nothing, the Democrat Party has decided to steal the tax cut issue from them.
"Senate and House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a package of tax cuts aimed at helping the middle class as part of a new political offensive against Republicans. Three members of the Senate Democratic leadership, Sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.), Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Patty Murray (Wash.) are leading the effort 'to challenge Republicans to join them in cutting taxes for working families, not just the wealthiest Americans,' according to a Democratic aide.
"Murray, the ranking member on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has authored two of the proposals, the 21st Century Worker Tax Cut Act and the Helping Working Families Afford Child Care Act. The first introduces a new tax credit worth up to $1,000 for families in which both parents work."
Now, ladies and gentlemen, tax cuts are a classic Republican issue. Cutting taxes to spur economic growth, cutting -- now, the Democrat tax cut is not marginal rates. The Democrats, I don't think, are gonna go that far, but they're still stealing the terminology. And of course here we have the Republicans, the party that is supposedly in power sitting around giving in to Obama on amnesty, and the Democrats moving forward, "You know what? These guys, if they're gonna just sit on their butts, let's take their issues from them, let's just totally denude them."
Now, the truth of the matter is, I must be honest about this. The Republicans have been putting forth tax reform proposals for over a year. We just don't know about it because those proposals never got out of the House. The Republican controlled House of Representatives has put together a whole slew of tax cut bills, and Harry Reid buried every one of them in the Senate.
So there is a strategy open to the Republicans on this. Whether or not they will utilize it, I haven't sleight idea. But one of the things they could do is to simply say, "You know what, I'm glade you guys on the Democrat side are starting to see it our way. We have proposed tax cut measures for the last year, year and a half," and then list 'em. Put 'em on the easel, put 'em on the big chart, whatever, illustrate to people what the various tax cut proposals have been, and then point out you Democrats were nowhere near. You wouldn't support 'em, the tax cut ideas that we passed the House got killed and bottled up in the Senate.
Try to make it look like the Democrats are Johnny-come-latelies to this. And welcome them. This is how you play the game. You stay on offense. You own this issue. Republicans own tax cuts. Democrats finally come around to the idea they want to propose 'em. Praise them. Welcome them to finally doing something right, if they've got the gumption. This is just what we don't know. We don't know if the Republicans have enough confidence to even play it that way or if they're gonna run around and skulk now that the Democrats have stolen another issue.
"Well, Mr. Limbaugh, we'd like to take your advice but the media will just call us liars and the media will accuse us of shutting down the government, so there's really nothing we can do." Okay, fine. Then why do you even want to win? "Well, we want to be chairman of committees, 'cause then we get to apportion the money." Oh, okay. Well, you got that.
Fear is no substitute for the bankruptcy of the Republican Party....It looks like that’s all you got.
As it stands now I see the business community and business behind Amnesty, Common Core, Obamacare.
I see a collusion of business and government against conservative principles if you ask me.
And on the social issue of the hour, Governor Bentley in Alabama won’t resist the federal judge who legalized Gay Marriage there because he’s afraid of Alabama losing jobs.
Maybe we do need to be a little more “left” until business comes to its senses on these issues......
The Corporatism and Crony Capitalism we have now is pretty lame......
Bluster is no substitute for reason.
What exactly is it they propose to do?
In the 30's the bashing of banks in particular kept the middle class from getting house loans, small business loans, car loans. How does that help the middle class to get ahead exactly? To slam the banks all the time caused the extension of the depression. The Marxist loved the policy because job creation was stifled in a big way. And we know they hate prosperity. What I hate to see is conservatives joining themselves to Marxism. It may result in 4 terms of Obama...a dreadful trick that FDR pulled.
It is “reason” that is slowly bankrupting this country and destroying its core values and traditions.......
Financial Services companies-Banks seem to run this country.
Heck, our politicians in Washington remind me of the credit card people. Every year or so they increase the card limit (debt ceiling) of the USA.
If I pay my credit card off I’m a bad customer.
I need to stay in debt and make monthly payments to be a good customer.
Nigel Farage is talking about national debt in the UK and how “Conservative” David Cameron has doubled it in the past five years.
He intends to take money away from foreign aid and the EU and put it back into the UK.
Fiscal responsibility alone seems like a good platform even though the banks-financial services people seem to care about it.
Governments increase debt ceilings, rating companies downgrade countries, taxes are raised to pay off creditors.
There has to be a better way and Farage is bringing us of the wilderness of believing there are big differences between major parties.....They are a Uniparty subordinate to big business and big banks.....
Well if you want to instead put a gun to the country’s head and blow it’s brain’s out to get it all over with quickly, then go ahead and support vote splitting.
If conservatives can’t win a GOP primary they sure as hell aren’t gonna win a 3-way general election.
To attempt to do so would be like trying walk 100 miles because you can’t figure out how to steer a car.
They aren’t going to win a three way unless they broaden their appeal like UKIP did?
Immigration was the perfect issue with all the cheap labor hurting the working class more liberal-left voters.
The Democrats are all in on immigration in this country but many working class voters still are suspicious of the R label. A new label might just do the trick for getting their votes.
We have the Canadian experience with the Liberal Party ruling the roost for 10 plus years while there was a split among the more conservative voters.
Canada didn’t blow its head off but the corruption proved the undoing of the Liberal Party in the end plus its overreach like trying to impose a gun registry on the country.
Exactly.
Trying to engineer targeted tax cuts is a game the 'Rats will always win.
To cut taxes, you must reduce the rates across the board, no questions asked. The promise to the voter is increased take-home pay, regardless of income or circumstance.
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