REICH: This is the right issue-It's the right time-Get it Democrats? Please don't blow it this time.

[kpete]

Robert Reich

Former Secretary of Labor; Professor at Berkeley; Author, 'Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future'
Posted: September 19, 2010 06:17 PM

The Defining Issue: Who Should Get the Tax Cut -- The Rich or Everyone Else?

Who deserves a tax cut more: the top 2 percent -- whose wages and benefits are higher than ever, and among whose ranks are the CEOs and Wall Street mavens whose antics have sliced jobs and wages and nearly destroyed the American economy -- or the rest of us?

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In other words, this is the right issue. It's the right time. It allows Democrats to explain what the Bush tax cuts really did, why supply-side economics is bogus, and the economic challenge ahead.

Even if Democrats feel they have to respond to the Republican charge that taxes shouldn't be raised on anyone when the employment rate is 9.6 percent, they have a powerful fallback: Extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone through 2011, then end them for the rich while making them permanent for the middle class.

Get it, Democrats? Please don't blow it this time.

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-defining-issue-who-should-get-the-tax-cut-the-rich-or-everyone-else_b_730897.html

[OHdem10]

1. AMEN!!!!

[sendero]

2. This is essentially...

... Obama's LAST CHANCE to do something productive about the economy. If he does not make this happen he is toast.

[RandomThoughts]

3. And all our times are here, make it happen.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Mainstream Dems don't want to use this message

or they would be doing so. They're not stupid. Rec'd for the truth.

[opihimoimoi]

5. If we Dwell on it....This is The Perfect Election to Dwindle the GOPer Dwarfs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHX34uMNXQ8&a=GxdCwVVULXfbz9LDKHX21Ogc4oUMkSvP&list=ML

[Vincardog]

6. Extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone through 2011, is not an effective fall-back it is a cave to

radical right

[SpiralHawk]

7. No time to 'dabble'

Take a stand for the people, and smear truth all over the republicons. The k and the r.

[spanone]

8. if the democrats can't win with this message, i guess it doesn't really matter

eh?

:shrug:

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Seems so self-evident, doesn't it...except to repuker tbaggers. In their alternate plane of reality

it ain't real unless beck says it..or Hannity says it...or the boner says it..

Then, it cannot be denied.