GOP spokesman: Senate GOP to oppose Obama tax plan

[babylonsister]

What a shocker!!


GOP spokesman: Senate GOP to oppose Obama tax plan
AP

– 18 mins ago


WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans will oppose any effort to renew soon-to-expire Bush administration tax cuts if upper income taxpayers are excluded from the reductions. A spokesman for Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that every Senate Republican has pledged to oppose President Barack Obama's tax-cutting plan. Obama would renew the tax cuts for most people, but let the top income tax rate rise back to almost 40 percent on family or small business income over $250,000.

McConnell has said a bill extending the tax cuts for only low- and middle-income earners cannot pass the Senate. Forty-one senators can block a bill with a filibuster, but McConnell spokesman Don Stewart declined to say whether all 41 Republicans would support a filibuster.

At issue is a year-end deadline to renew a variety of tax cuts enacted in 2001 — when the federal government was running a surplus.

On Sunday, House GOP Leader John Boehner said he would support renewing tax cuts for the middle class but not the wealthy if that was his only choice.

Democrats are worried that November elections could hand the GOP control of the House and perhaps the Senate. The White House and its Democratic allies hope to use the tax-cut fight to cast themselves as defenders of the middle class and Republicans as a party eager to revive the days of the still unpopular former President George W. Bush.

"We're going to take the next 50-some days to convince the public that's exactly what the Republicans would do — back to the Bush policies," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Gibbs said on NBC's "Today" show.

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[JuniperLea]

1. They had their turn...

Their tax cut to the wealthy didn't work then, and it's not working now... time for it to go.

[uponit7771]

2. Now is time for DNC to day GOP apposes extending middle class tax cuts!!!!

[WI_DEM]

3. They just gift wrapped and delivered a great issue if Dems play it right

The refrain should be that the GOP is holding middle class tax cuts hostage to get tax cuts for the rich extended.

[T Wolf]

4. First, what a shock. Let's see how Obama and the Dems respond to this line in the sand.

Second, any odds on whether the Democrats will actually use this effectively, or at all?

[kentuck]

5. This is a big test for Reid...

If he cannot stand his position on this issue, I question whether he deserves to win his race.

Bring it up for a vote. Let the Republicans vote against the middle-class tax cuts. No compromise above the $250K limit. Line in the sand. Let the Repubs vote against it just before election day. Defend your position. That's all that needs to be done. If we cannot trust Reid to do that, then why is he Majority Leader??

[David__77]

6. If they extend the top bracket cut, they will pay dearly!

They have to stand for something. Anything at all...