{"id":7537,"date":"2012-04-14T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2012-04-14T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:06:07","slug":"action-alert-its-time-to-pass-the-buffet-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/14\/action-alert-its-time-to-pass-the-buffet-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Alert: It’s Time to Pass the Buffet Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican tax dogma remains one of their biggest weaknesses, because they are not willing to consider fairness for the 99% by making the richest 0.1% pay more than average workers in taxes.  While the Buffet Rule is only a small step toward needed reforms, it is imperative that we support it and put the Republicans on record for blocking it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"14buffet\"President Obama made another pitch Saturday for Congress to raise taxes on the richest Americans.<\/p>\n

Obama, as he has repeatedly in recent days, urged Congress to enact legislation that would implement the so-called Buffett Rule, a principle calling for those at the very top of the income pyramid to pay at least the same percentage of their income in taxes as those in middle-class families<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In his weekly radio and Internet speech, Obama said it’s "not just about fairness," but "is also about growth."<\/p>\n

"It’s about being able to make the investments we need to strengthen our economy and create jobs," Obama said. "And it’s about whether we as a country are willing to pay for those investments\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ed Schultz discusses America’s overwhelming support for this policy with Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).<\/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

Saint Ronnie Ray Gun would be a reject in today’s Republican Party. They would call him a socialist, or worst yet a "librul".<\/font><\/p>\n

I disagree with the Senator on one thing.  Republicans are going to block this no matter what we do.  Nevertheless, it is imperative that we make it plain that what they are doing is contrary to the will if the American people, so I urge you to join me in support for it at buffetrulebill.com<\/a>.  At worst we will force Republicans to demonstrate once again that they govern exclusively for the benefit of millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican tax dogma remains one of their biggest weaknesses, because they are not willing to consider fairness for the 99% by making the richest 0.1% pay more than average workers in taxes.  While the Buffet Rule is only a small step toward needed reforms, it is imperative that we support it and put the Republicans […]<\/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-7537","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\/7537","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=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}