Republicans want to raise YOUR taxes. They have played almost every dirty trick in the book to block extending the payroll tax extension for working Americans, while fighting tooth and nail for tax cuts for the 1% and criminal corporations. It is co obvious that Republicans are in thrall to the Koch brothers and their ilk that even the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Fox, asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to explain it!
The number two Senate Republican, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl (R), last week decried attempts by Senate Democrats and President Obama to pay for a payroll tax cut extension with a surtax on millionaires. Despite the fact that payroll tax cut extension would keep an extra $1,000 in the pockets of the average American family, and despite the fact that the millionaire surtax would hit relatively few households, Kyl said he could only support extending the tax cut for working Americans if it was accompanied by massive tax cuts for the wealthy.
This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) what he made of characterizations of the GOP as the party that defends millionaires, given that more than half of McConnell’s caucus has repeatedly voted against a tax cut for the middle class. McConnell laughed at the assertion before saying the GOP is “not here to defend high-income people.” As proof, McConnell told Wallace that the Republican plan took such drastic steps as to prevent millionaires from receiving unemployment benefits or food stamps…
…McConnell’s assertions seem belied by the facts. Though he insists the payroll tax cut extension will pass, it was the GOP that opposed paying for it through a small surtax on the wealthiest Americans. It was the GOP that opposed any move to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in efforts to reduce the deficit — leading to the first credit downgrade in American history and ultimately dooming the super committee. It was his party that nearly shutdown the government in April over the same issue — even though the wealthiest Americans are paying historically low tax rates.
And while McConnell claims the GOP plan “goes after” millionaires “on the benefits side,” it “goes after” low- and middle-income Americans “on the benefits side” even harder… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Think Progress>
How absurd. Bought Bitch Mitch should explain just how many of the top 1% collect unemployment or receive food stamps. That is the hardship that he claims proves Republicans aren’t defending high end people. I’ll have a load of that for the front lawn!
14 Responses to “McConnell Lies Again!”
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As usual, he has his head up his ass. I thought turtles pulled their heads inside their shells.
Poor Patty! Sued bu turtles! 🙁
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chinless, brainless,lying sack of excrement. carry on you turkey, christmas is just around the corner.
Welcome Derek! 🙂
Pity the poor family to be served that ugly bird for Christmas dinner.
Yertle the Turtle gets paid big bucks by lobbyists to lie every time he opens his mouth.
Why else would he be Bought Bitch Mitch?
How stupid he- (they) think people are– Head up his ass ? So damm far he is tickling his tonsils with his tongue ! Lying so and so !—Show me one of the top 1% receiving food stamps ( a means tested program ) and I will apologize— as far as unemployment goes– well if they are without a job and have paid in- through their employers– I guess they would be due unemployment insurance– lol– But I betcha we can’t find one of them either– – So damm far out of touch with the problems of this country and its people — would be funny if it weren’t so serious—–
My point exactly Phyllis.
First, if Democrats were to use the phrase “Go after millionaires” that McConnell freely bandied about, you can damn well bet repubicans would be screaming “CLASS WARFARE!”
Second, if repubicans were honest and sincere (OK – putting aside the fact that the words “repubican … honest … sincere” should actually NEVER appear in the same sentence) – they should be going after the tax side, and not the benefit side of the equation.
To start with, they could support [1] a fair tax on millionaires, [2] an end to preferential tax treatment of investment income and [3] elimination of the cap on income subjected to the payroll tax, which is currently at $106k.
Republicans? Do that?!!? Nameless have you been into the locked part of the medicine chest? 😉
I’m surprised TC that you were able to keep his nose inside the picture! Also, when you cropped the picture, was there someone behind him giving him a wedgie? Sure looks like he’s singing soprano and enjoying it!
Republican/Teabaggers are all a bunch of unethical, lying SOBs that don’t deserve the honour of serving their constituents! There’s something wrong there . . . they’re not serving their constituents, only the 1%ers.
Payback comes in 2012 when the election starts to clean up the house!
Lynn, I cropped it so long ago that I forget what used to be there.
Amen twice.
If Mooch is “leadership,” the Rushpubliscum Party is a Kindergarten.
Isn’t it?