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Senate Dems Vote To Tax All Americans More

Well it looks as if the Senate is not going to budge on the Bush Tax Cuts. We knew they wouldn’t. I suppose we’ll see if the House Republicans will grow a set and stand up for all Americans and extend those tax cuts to everyone equally.

AP reports,

The Senate opened the drama Wednesday with surprise debates and passage of a Democratic bill fashioned on President Barack Obama’s proposal to extend the income tax cuts to all but the wealthiest Americans through 2013. It passed even though the measure stands no chance of surviving the Republican-led House. Meanwhile, the Senate rejected a GOP amendment to extend the cuts to all taxpayers. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, intends to bring up that measure in his chamber next week.

So the matter was a nearly certain stalemate even before Democratic leader Harry Reid and Republican leader Mitch McConnell abruptly agreed to vote on two measures, spent the day accusing each other of playing politics and the last 20 minutes trying to get the last word.

Frankly, it’s tiresome seeing the same old playbook used by the Democrats involving class warfare to divide the American people. If it isn’t class warfare, it’s racism.

Polls have suggested that the American people are against the Democrats. However, just as Americans were against the passage of Obamacare, Democrats have thumbed their noses at the American people and declared they will do it their way. After all, in the eyes of the Democrat Party the American people are too immature and stupid to know what is best of them.

Wednesday’s Senate vote on the $250 billion Democratic bill was a near-party line 51-40 tally, with Vice President Joe Biden presiding over the chamber in the unlikely event his vote was needed to break a tie. Minutes earlier, senators voted 54-45 to reject the rival Republican package that would have included the wealthiest Americans in the tax reductions.

“The House will vote next week to stop that tax hike, and until the Senate does the same, the threat to our economy remains,” Boehner said in a statement.

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R.Young

Ah yes the Democratic Party, the only political party this country needs.
SilverHairedSaint

As one who is presently living at the bottom of the economic scale (my wife and I are both recently disabled and bankrupted and living on $1205.00 per month) I still hold to my conservative values and beliefs and think it is extremely unfair to tax the wealthy at higher rates than everyone else. If anything, the tax codes should be completely overhauled and let everyone pay a flat tax of 10%. It would be a much simplified tax system. Income x 10% = your fair share. No deductions, incentives or any of the other BS that goes on now. In my case my annual tax would be $1446.00. for someone making $100,000.00 it would be $10,000.00. If the government can’t run on that amount then it is too big and needs to be trimmed down to what it is supposed to be. Cut all the BS in government. When I see the stories about these government employees (our employees) spending almost a million dollars for what is billed as a conference, but is in reality one big party at the taxpayers expense it sickens me. My wife and I could live the rest of our lives comfortably on a million dollars, and these jerks who are pulling down hefty five and six figure incomes with golden parachutes, etc…are wasting this money while the rest of us suffer; it just makes me so angry…
But I digress, This move by the Democrats just lives up to that mindset; tax and spend, tax and spend, steal from those who were intelligent and motivated enough to build a business and make a fortune and give it to a bunch of bureaucrat “public servants” to throw wild parties. Shame, shame , shame. The only thing that keeps me somewhat sane through this is that I know God sees all that transpires, and His accounting is perfect. And He only requires us to give a 10% tithe to operate His church in this system of trade in which we live on planet Earth.
ARMYOF69

These egotistic bastards, do not realize that WE THE PEOPLE, live on a day by day budget, not knowing when we are going to get laid off, unlike their never ending good life with massive benefits paid for by us , WE THE PEOPLE.
THE DAY IS NIGH.
WhiteFalcon

The Senate wants to tax everyone more, but of course they will exclude themselves. All the Commiecrats/Nazicrats need to be gone not only from our Government but from our society, entirely.
Marcy

It comes down to a very fundamental question. If you earn it, is it yours?
We need to define what is a reasonable percentage of our earnings to allocate to government. Give me a number and we can start a rational discussion from there. So far, all we hear is, “It is not enough, yet–give us more.”
The definition of slavery is when one person is forced to serve the will of another.
guest18

Too bad the Dems don’t spend that kind of time passing a balanced budget amendment like the Republicans have done three years in a row. The Dems haven’t passed one in over three years because it would curtail their out of control spending.
hobert

within a short time they will be knocking on your door asking for your guns, that is when it gets real ugly.
hobert

I am tired of all dam polictians they are all crooked from the court house to the white house.
J J

The current situation in Congress is unworkable. It is generally divided down party lines with NO compromise especially from the Democrat side of the aisle. The Democrats act like spoiled children who want their way regardless and, even worse, the Democrats think they are right all the time. Dems – there are other opinions in the world AND some of those opinions are better than yours!!! The Democrats don’t seem to understand that they can’t tax more to make more. Do any of the Democrats have any economical sense at all??? If you create more jobs you have more people contributing into the system instead of taking from the system. This isn’t a difficult process to understand. Economic growth is the answer – not taxing more!!!
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000587760218 Ken Russell
  
  The truth is most are not even Democrats, they’re Marxist/socialist, just pretending to be democrats to get elected by the liberal base with their hands out.
BD

Commie REID looks so regal at the podium! But, in reality? HUH!
pappap42

With John Bonehead all the demoRATs have to do is promise to cut spending in 3012 and he will cave. What a spineless wimp. You guys go ahead and take your vacations, the hell with the country.
sean murry

Get senile old POS reid out of congress.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Watland/1588083826 Daniel Watland

Those who prospered most should be taxed most. Greed is perhaps the only thing divised by man that will destroy this nation. Picture in your mind, what would happen if we stoped all shipments of foreign products. Better than half our nation would be layed off.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Marshall/100001163952013 Bob Marshall

Let’s be honest. Both parties think the American people are too stupid to know what is best for them but they do. It is true that we have a nation where in millions of citizens seem to be incapable of critical thinking but ignorance can be fixed.
Brazen

Again, Tim Brown lies about taxes. He writes that ALL Americans will be taxed more. The truth is, only those making $250,000.00 or higher will be taxed more (read, fairly). So Tim Brown should be tarred and feathered and rode out of town on a rail for lying to the readers of Freedom Outpost. It is a site for true right-wing and left-wing fanatics and coward Tea Party members. When was the last time you saw a Tea Party protester wearing an armed services uniform? I see these so-called patriots wearing comic book costumes and dressing like Uncle Sam, but not one fighting for his country.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Hugh-Scott-Winter-McGillivray/100000364844828 Hugh Scott Winter McGillivray

Read the book “Patriots” by James Wesley, Rawles. While I may not agree with everything he brings up in this book as happening in the future for the US, at the end the new government repeals the 14th and 26th Amendments to establish citizenship to native born citizens of two native born citizens as well as repealing the 17th returning appointing Senators to the states.
In our modern times it would be hard to get Congress to call for a Constitutional Congress to make the necessary changes to the Constitution, butit would also open the door for amendments we may not like.
JMR

reidis an piece of grap
http://www.survivingurbancrisis.com/ Silas Longshot

More of the same posturing and finger pointing, going nowhere. Don’t blink, republicans, the dems won’t dare get themselves blamed for letting this crash happen.

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