Biden says he and Obama will fight wealthy tax cuts in 2012

[somone]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/12/biden-says-he-and-obama-will-fight-wealthy-tax-cuts-in-2012/1

Biden says he and Obama will fight wealthy tax cuts in 2012

Vice President Joe Biden said today that he and President Obama will fight to end the "morally troubling" yet newly renewed tax cuts for rich Americans in the re-election year of 2012.

"The one target for us in two years is no longer extending the upper income tax credit for millionaires and billionaires," Biden said on NBC's Meet The Press. "And scaling back what we had to do to get the compromise, the estate tax for the very wealthy."

"We're coming back and going at it again," Biden later added.

Obama agreed to a two-year extension of the high-end tax cuts because otherwise Senate Republicans would have blocked tax cut extensions for all Americans, leading to higher tax bills. The tax cuts, signed by President George W. Bush, were due to expire at the end of the year.

[rusty charly]

1. I don't believe you, Joe.

[indepat]

16. Rarely do we get an opportunity to hear such hilarity

;)

[Warren Stupidity]

2. fool me once..

[PSPS]

3. Sorry, Joe. Nobody's buying the "will fight" charade anymore. Fool me twice...

[niceypoo]

4. "morally troubling"

[Bluebear]

25. Nice touch, wasn't that?

[niceypoo]

27. Absurd indeed

[enough]

5. Every so often this little voice in my ear says "Imagine if Bush had said/done something like that."

We won't do it this year, but trust me, we'll do it two years from now. I find it insulting.

[xchrom]

6. we're going to borrow 980 billion for this go round.

so -- in two years you'll get your fight on?

color me skeptical.

[bullimiami]

7. he has the power.

all he would have to do is veto any tax bill with it included. id have to see it to believe it.

[Exilednight]

8. Didn't the say the same thing in 2008 about 2010?

:shrug:

[dkofos]

9. That's what they said in 2008

Why should we believe them??

[Desertrose]

10. Talk is cheap.....

And your actions speak ...much louder than your words.

Why didn't you fight it NOW!?

[msongs]

11. obama already used that lie Joe nt

[treestar]

12. He's thinking the economy will be better

Or, that's what has to happen to go along with that.

[TheKentuckian]

21. Good luck with that. One of the biggest drags and engines for the wealth disparity

was just continued/expanded on.

I find the magical thinking about the economy rather troubling. The inability/refusal to look at the situation holistically even scarier.

[Obamanaut]

13. I already fell for the 'hopey/changey', and even changed my screen name during

the name-change amnesty.

Fool me once, shame on you. Twice, shame on me.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Sure..when the time is right..and we have the votes...and when the powder is dry..

and, of course when the Repugs want another "compromise".

[Karmadillo]

15. Fool me 73 times, shame on me.

nt

[Catherina]

17. Lol. And my grandmother will rise from the dead. n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

18. And there's every reason to believe they will, since they didn't this time.

[democracy1st]

19. more bs from this Goldman Sachs admin..

[katnapped]

20. Un-rec'ers hitting this hard

Wonder why.... :sarcasm:

[KansasVoter]

31. -1 from me because it is BS. The GOP will hold Obama hostage on another issue again!

[juajen]

22. I don't believe him, either. The time was now. NT

[Go2Peace]

23. Naw, we already know how this works

[Zhade]

24. HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

:rofl:

Tell us another one, Biden! I literally snorted with derision at the sheer fucking cluelessness he reveals -- Obama just broke yet another campaign promise, and you think we're stupid enough to believe you when he just fucked us over again?

You should take that act on the road.

[kentuck]

26. Good luck with that!

How will that argument be different from the last one? You still want to raise taxes on the middle class? Perhaps the unemployment will be low enough so you won't have to defend that argument again also?

[City Lights]

28. Suuuuure, Joe. Whatever you say, Joe.

:boring:

[KansasVoter]

29. Was this from the Onion? LOL.

[rug]

30. I.m going to donate $2,600 in 2012.

That was easy.

[bvar22]

32. LOL

...and the check is in the mail, right Joe?



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