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Mitch McConnell: Poor have it too easy, have to pay their share of taxes

by Joan McCarter

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks that our tax system is too damned progressive and that poor people just aren't pulling their weight. No. Really.

(CBS News) The United States tax code favors lower income Americans too much already and should be restructured to make it fairer to upper income earners, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said.

In an interview that aired on "CBS This Morning" Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican said he is ready to sit down with "this president or the next president" and have an animated discussion about the tax code to "reach a conclusion" that would bring down the ballooning U.S. deficit.

"Almost 70 percent of the federal revenue is provided by the top 10 percent of taxpayers now. Between 45 percent and 50 percent of Americans pay no income tax at all. We have an extraordinarily progressive tax code already. It is a mess and needs to be revisited again," McConnell said in the interview, taped Monday.

McConnell's in league with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on that one. He's also argued that the poor just get off too damned easy in this country, and have to suffer more by taking on the tax burden that Republicans' cuts for the wealthy will create. And of course they're basing their pronouncement on the big lie that poor people don't pay taxes. They pay a larger share of their income in taxes than rich people do. And they are students, and disabled people, and the elderly who don't have income to pay taxes on. Not that facts, with their well known liberal bias, will get in the way of Republican talking points.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/19/1101378/-Mitch-McConnell-Poor-have-it-too-easy-have-to-pay-their-share-of-taxes

Clearly, the Republican solution is to give more tax cuts to the rich!

..Romney isn’t simply proposing to make the Bush tax cuts permanent; he’s also proposing an additional across-the-board tax cut on top of extending the Bush tax cuts that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy. A recent study found that under Romney’s tax proposals, 67 percent of the tax cut would go to those over $200,000.

More: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002828317