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bucheon bum
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 Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
Middle class taxes going up is fine. Anyone sitting there nodding along when someone like Jon Stewart suggests it's not unreasonable to expect the wealthy to pay in taxes what they paid under Clinton while simultaneously insisting that it's unreasonable to expect the middle class to do the same thing is being disingenuous.
The Bush Tax Cuts should be allowed to expire in their entirety. |
I agree. By drawback, I meant it from the prospective of a politician. As with most sensible policies, it is unlikely to be implemented due to politics. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Paul Ryan accuses Harry Reid of playing politics for considering putting Ryan's budget up for a vote in the Senate.
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BURLINGTON, Wis. � House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on Friday dismissed the impact of the coming Senate vote on his budget plan, saying Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is �playing politics� by holding a vote on the House budget after the recess.
�He likes to play politics � that�s what he�s doing,� Ryan told POLITICO after a town hall meeting in his southeastern Wisconsin district. �I don�t worry about that.�
The vote will force Senate Republicans to decide whether they want to vote down the House Republican budget or risk facing ads accusing them of cutting Medicare � something House Republicans have already experienced. At least five Senate Republicans � Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Mark Kirk of Illinois and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska � will be under close scrutiny, since they�ve been the most willing to break with their party on other issues.
Collins has already said she won�t vote for the Ryan budget, and Snowe has voiced doubts about the plan.
�Given Maine has the oldest population of any state in the nation, any proposals representing profound changes to these critical safety net programs would require serious and rigorous scrutiny,� she said in a statement earlier this month. |
You'd think Ryan would be happy about this getting a vote in the Senate. After all, that's how legislation works after all, it needs to pass both houses. Either this needs to face a vote in the Senate, or it can't become law, and if it was never intended to actually become law, why did the House vote on it? |
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