Bernie Sanders On Tax Cuts: GOP Wants To Grow National Debt, Then Slash Social Security

[laughingliberal]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday that if Democrats cede ground on the tax package now, it will come back to haunt them in the 112th Congress, adding that he will do "anything and everything" to stop the recently-reached deal between the White House and Republicans from going through.

"This is only the beginning," said Sanders of what he referred to as the Republican's "right-wing" agenda. "They want a governmental crisis. Then they're going to shut down the government."

The package opposed by Sanders would allow the Bush tax cuts for the highest-earning Americans to be extended for two years in return for GOP cooperation on the reauthorization of unemployment benefits for just 13 months.

Sanders told a roomful of reporters at the Capitol Tuesday that his main objective in opposing the package is to guard against future cuts in social welfare programs by not significantly increasing the national debt to give tax cuts to the rich.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/bernie-sanders-tax-cuts_n_793405.html

It's obvious this is the plan. Oppose the 'deal.'

[leftstreet]

1. I'm sorry...I thought we destroyed the GOP in 2006 and 2008

Did I miss a meeting?

:beer:

[amborin]

2. k&R

and the payroll tax holiday is very ominous in that regard

[pa28]

3. K&R

[laughingliberal]

4. Kicking for Bernie

[myrna minx]

5. K&R n/t