{"id":7580,"date":"2012-04-18T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2012-04-18T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:48:22","slug":"republican-budget-bend-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/republican-budget-bend-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Budget: Bend Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If House Republicans get their way in the federal budget they deemed and passed (remember demon pass?), all but the very rich will have to grab their ankles.&#160; The purpose of government is to serve the common good, but for Republicans, only the 1% get served.&#160; What happens to the rest of is is obvious.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"18GOPscrew\" alt=\"18GOPscrew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/18GOPscrew.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, defended the <a href=\"http:\/\/budget.house.gov\/prosperity\/fy2013.htm\" target=\"_blank\">House Republican budget<\/a> at a tax policy summit yesterday \u2014 as well as the broader idea that taxes on the wealthy need to be cut while taxes on lower-income Americans should be raised. When asked by ThinkProgress\u2019 Scott Keyes to square the <strong>GOP\u2019s explicit desire to cut taxes for the rich with the fact that it\u2019s budget would raise taxes on low-income working Americans<\/strong>, Tiberi responded by saying that to do otherwise would be to \u201cbeat up on people who are trying to be successful.\u201d He then made the case for raising taxes on the poor by lamenting that they don\u2019t have any \u201cskin in the game\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Watch it: <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4586KEOVNhk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), defended by Tiberi, and <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/03\/29\/455159\/house-republicans-pass-ryan-budget-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">passed<\/a> by the House Republicans, would <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/03\/22\/450392\/ryan-budget-millionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\">cut taxes for millionaires<\/a> by an average of $187,000 in 2014 alone, even if tax expenditures are eliminated to offset the revenue loss. Meanwhile, it would allow tax cuts on low-income Americans, passed in response to the economic collapse, to expire. Families making $30,000 or less <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/04\/12\/463694\/gop-budget-raises-taxes-on-poor\/\" target=\"_blank\">would see<\/a> their after-tax income fall, in some cases by as much as 2 percent, while those making over $1 million would see it rise by 12.5 percent\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/04\/18\/465999\/tiberi-defends-tax-hike-poor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30268017@N03\/6815722579\/\" target=\"_blank\">EN2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In stark contrast, there is a budget that is worthy of your support: the <a href=\"http:\/\/cpc.grijalva.house.gov\/index.cfm?sectionid=81\" target=\"_blank\">Budget for All<\/a>.&#160; Check it out!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If House Republicans get their way in the federal budget they deemed and passed (remember demon pass?), all but the very rich will have to grab their ankles.&#160; The purpose of government is to serve the common good, but for Republicans, only the 1% get served.&#160; What happens to the rest of is is obvious. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/republican-budget-bend-over\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-7580","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\/7580","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=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}