{"id":5675,"date":"2011-08-23T00:35:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T07:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2011-08-23T00:35:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T07:35:40","slug":"republicans-oppose-a-tax-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/republicans-oppose-a-tax-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Oppose a Tax Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

You don\u2019t need to clean your glasses.  Your eyes are not playing tricks on you.  Republicans actually do oppose a tax cut.  They may keep telling you that the don\u2019t want to allow anyone to raise your taxes, but they are lying.  They want you to pay more in taxes, so that millionaires, billionaires and criminal corporations can pay less.  These are the only ones for whom Republicans govern.  They do NOT represent YOU.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"23TaxCut\"It’s been the GOP’s dominant meme after the 2010 midterm elections: cut government spending dramatically and endlessly cut taxes for the rich and corporations. They preach day after day that that’s the only true job creation scheme in which America should consider. They mask it with hazy words that cover up their real intentions like their latest bogus con called the "Cut, Cap and Balance"<\/a><\/font> constitutional amendment. Frank Luntz must be proud to see that one phrase repeated over and over again no matter what further destruction and harm will come to the 98% of working Americans. <\/font><\/p>\n

Now as Labor Day approaches, Republicans are making it plain that they will not support extending the payroll tax holiday that will be proposed again by President Obama. Never mind that they had earlier called for it and it is in and of itself a Republican idea. The AP got a headline right for a change:<\/font><\/p>\n

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GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes. Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to prevent a payroll tax increase on virtually every wage-earner starting Jan. 1, right? Apparently not.<\/font><\/p>\n

Many of the same Republicans who fought hammer-and-tong to keep the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts from expiring on schedule are now saying a different "temporary" tax cut should end as planned. By their own definition, that amounts to a tax increase.<\/font><\/p>\n

The tax break extension they oppose is sought by President Barack Obama. Unlike proposed changes in the income tax, this policy helps the 46 percent of all Americans who owe no federal income taxes but who pay a "payroll tax" on practically every dime they earn.<\/font><\/p>\n

There are other differences as well, and Republicans say their stand is consistent with their goal of long-term tax policies that will spur employment and lend greater certainty to the economy.<\/font><\/p>\n

And what’s the new rationale for the opposition?<\/font><\/p>\n

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"It’s always a net positive to let taxpayers keep more of what they earn," says Rep. Jeb Hensarling, "but not all tax relief is created equal for the purposes of helping to get the economy moving again." The Texas lawmaker is on the House GOP leadership team.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

\u201cNot all tax relief is created equal.\u201d  Lets convert that RepubliSpeak into language we can understand.  This simply means that they don\u2019t want a tax cut passed, unless the vast majority of it goes to the super-rich.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz covered this with Economist David Cay Johnston.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Republicans have shown over and over again that only the rich matter to them.  They shoved you under the bus long ago!  That\u2019s why\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!<\/font><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You don\u2019t need to clean your glasses.  Your eyes are not playing tricks on you.  Republicans actually do oppose a tax cut.  They may keep telling you that the don\u2019t want to allow anyone to raise your taxes, but they are lying.  They want you to pay more in taxes, so that millionaires, billionaires and […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}