Senator McCaskill's comments on the "Gang of 6 plan".....

[Sherman A1]

Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill says the bipartisan “Gang of Six” plan to steer the government away from a first-ever default on its financial obligations makes sense because it helps the deficit and lowers corporate and personal tax rates.

The democratic Senator attended the meeting on Capitol Hill Tues. where some 50 senators from both parties were briefed on the plan. McCaskill says most of the senators are excited about the compromise that was presented.

“Now some people aren’t going to get the tax breaks that they get now that are written in the tax code,” said McCaskill in a weekly conference call with reporters. “But, it moves us towards a flatter tax, a fairer tax, and a tax that I think will spur economic development because it will remove so much of the complexities in the tax code.”

McCaskill said she has yet to review all the details of the plan.

The "Gang of Six" plan promises almost $4 trillion in deficit cuts, including an immediate 10-year, $500 billion down payment that would come as Congress sets caps on the agency budgets it passes each year. It also requires an additional $500 billion in cost curbs on federal health care programs, cuts to federal employee pensions, curbs in the growth of military heath care and retirement costs.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said the plan is too complicated to advance before the August 2nd deadline.

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/mccaskill-gang-six-plan-makes-sense

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Bull. We don't need a 'flatter tax'.

[Sherman A1]

6. Agreed

[DJ13]

2. "it moves us towards a flatter tax"

She's a good Republican, but a lousy Democrat.

[The Magistrate]

9. Hear Hear, Sir

[bullwinkle428]

17. Neal Boortz probably got a chubby over that quote from her.

[hfojvt]

24. and to think how happy I was when No-Talent got defeated

Plus, I just paid $125 to hear her speak at Washington Days. Yuck. It won't do any good, but I am gonna call her office.

[cbdo2007]

3. In other words, it sounds good for her and her Millions $$$$

That's really all she ever supports.

God, please give us a better Dem candidate to challenge McCaskill in the near future. Thank you.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. She's trying to save her faltering Blue Dog reelection bid. n/t

[Sherman A1]

23. +1

[FreakinDJ]

5. How does a $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut = $1 Trillion in increased Revenue

sounds more like "Smoke and Mirrors" with a Huge Tax Cut for the Wealthy Elite

[hfojvt]

25. Don't be ridiculous

it is a $1.5 trillion cut for the rich and a $2.5 trillion increase for the middle class and the upper middle class.

It's what Republicans always do, but the tax increase will be blamed on the Democrats.

[Erose999]

7. "Curbs in the growth of Military health care" REALLY? What the hell are these teabagging shitasses

smoking?

[ThomWV]

8. Yeah, flatter all right - get it flat enough and the rich won't pay any more than the poor.

[Dawson Leery]

10. Slum nursing homes are highly profitable and she wants to

keep every penny that her husband fleeces off them.

[tularetom]

11. A lot of people with a lot of influence prefer that the tax code be complicated

And a lot of us without influence suspect that any changes in it will only wind up fucking us and benefiting those who have influence.

[Sherman A1]

19. It pretty much always has done so

Screwing us and benefiting those with influence.

[aquart]

12. Has the heat driven her insane?

A flat tax is the last thing we should ever want.

[Sherman A1]

21. No, it has not

she has always been a blue dog.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. She gives "Singin' the Blues" a whole new meaning.

[Beavker]

14. I'm willing to do an accross the board removal of all tax breaks

All of them. This hurts, it means I lose my Mtg deductions (note plural, it's ugly), dependent deductions, etc. Tax me at a specific rate, and do the same for the Wall Street pigs. Capital Gains at the same rate. If it's earnings/wage/pay, it's all the same. I'm willing to take that hit to get the Richies back on board with helping the rest of the country...yes, even the ones that are unemployed (thanks to them).

[joeybee12]

15. Enjoy your stint at Faux News when you retire next year Claire...

What's that? You're not planning on retiring? But you just wrote your own obituary, you idiot.

[Fuddnik]

22. When Jean Carnahan took Ashcroft's Senate seat, she supported Bush's tax cuts.

She thought it would help her election chances (She was appointed to her husbands vacancy, the dead man who beat Ashcroft).

Didn't work. She got the boot too.

Harry Truman was right. "Given the choice between a real Republican and a fake Republican, the people will take the real Republican every time".

[kctim]

16. No surprise at all

Voting for the HCR bill pretty much doomed her re-election dreams. She is just trying save those dreams by moving to the right now.

[RyanPsych]

18. In other words, the Democrats have become Republicans

who are trying to appease the Republicans, who have turned into escaped mental patients.

[Sherman A1]

20. Precisely

and summed up rather well I might add. :thumbsup: