Sanders introduces Millionaires Surtax bill, calls GOPer budget cuts "insane"

[JohnWxy]

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12473">Sanders Bill to Create a Millionaires Surtax and End Tax Breaks for Big Oil - Buzzflash





WASHINGTON, March 10 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today introduced The Emergency Deficit Reduction Act that would establish a surtax on millionaires and eliminate tax breaks for big oil and gas companies.

Sanders, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, said any proposal to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year must pair additional revenue from those who can afford it the most with spending cuts.

"The American people get it. They understand you can't move toward deficit reduction just by cutting programs that working families, the middle class, low-income people desperately need in order to survive in the midst of this terrible recession. They understand that serious, responsible deficit reduction requires shared sacrifice," Sanders said in a Senate floor speech.

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PLEASE, CALL, EMAIL YOUR SENATORS. TELL THEM TO SUPPORT THIS BILL!

[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[SpiralHawk]

2. The Republicon Socialism-for-Fatcats lobby will soil their diapers over this

just you wait and see...or then again, maybe you would prefer not to see...

But, I'm just sayin...

[JohnWxy]

4. Quite a dilemma, you'd like to see it, but then....ugh! but it wouldn't be worse than listening to

shit spouting from their mouths.

[FSogol]

3. K & R. n/t

[Drale]

5. Don't just call the budget cuts insane

call them insane we need to start hurting their self esteem like they have been doing to us for years and years.

[crickets]

6. Bless you, Bernie. -nt

[Bill USA]

7. put another way, what reason would any DUer have for NOT calling their Senators and demanding they

support Sanders bill? Make the Corporate Lobbyists vote against it. It at least would be something to hear about on the evening news other than the CLPers wailing about how the Democrats don't want to reduce the deficit, that the Democrats are spendthrifts (was the Shrub a Democrat??? .. I thought he was a GOPer?).


It would sure be nice to hear that Democratic Senators got thousands of emails and calls to support the Sanders bill.


recommended.

[bossy22]

8. sounds reasonable

which means the tea partiers are about to go ape sh*t