Boehner: I'll Drop Tax Cut for Rich If I Have To

[babylonsister]

Pressure getting to him? And Schieffer actually went there?? :wow:


Boehner: I'll Drop Tax Cut for Rich If I Have To
House Minority Leader Disputes Obama's Claim GOP Blocks Tax Cuts for Middle Class; Says Spending Cuts Only Way to Create Jobs

By David S Morgan


(CBS) The leading Republican in the House, and a vocal proponent of allowing an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, including the wealthiest 3% of earners, objected to charges by President Obama that Republicans are holding tax breaks for the bottom 97% of earners hostage unless the wealthiest also get an extension.

In a pre-taped interview to appear on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner said that, if approving a bill to extend breaks for middle class income Americans were "the only option," he would support it.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans would cost $700 billion over the next decade.

At a speech in Ohio earlier this week, Mr. Obama said, "With all the other budgetary pressures we have - with all the Republicans' talk about wanting to shrink the deficit - they would have us borrow $700 billion over the next 10 years to give a tax cut of about $100,000 each to folks who are already millionaires."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/12/ftn/main6858401.shtml

[marmar]

1. Beware of orange people bearing gifts......

nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. Looks like Pumpkinhead is turning on his own.... now watch

the kerfluffle on the right.

[jefferson_dem]

2. No way...

:wow:

Something's seriously fishy.

[simmonsj811]

3. BLINK!!

:wow: :scared:

[BeyondGeography]

4. Someone's winning this frame, and it ain't Boehner

[brewens]

5. Wait till he sobers up, He'll be the same ol' Boner. n/t

[rurallib]

6. Think you may have the reason.

[TBF]

7. "Read my lips, no new taxes" -

you don't have to be all that old to remember that republican line ..... and we all knows what happens when they actually get in office.

[iamjoy]

8. Boehner Wants to be Speaker

It's very simple. John Boehner wants to be Speaker of the House. He'll say anything to help Republicans win in November. He knows very well that holding up tax cuts for working Americans would not play well at the polls.

It is much easier to vote in the other tax cuts now and campaign on having cut taxes for 95% (or more) of all Americans. He's counting on this helping the Republicans win back the House and then they can vote back the tax cuts for the uber-wealthy.

[flpoljunkie]

9. Hmm. There is no bill yet to extend middle-class tax cuts. Is Boehner counting on Bayh and ilk to

insist that the Bush tax cuts to extended to everyone--including the top 2%--which they have indicated they support. God, I hope not!

[jefferson_dem]

10. Newt just echoed Boner on FauxNewsSunday.

Take the middle-class tax relief now and fight for the wealthy later. HaHa.

[donco]

12. Kinda looks like boner is

looking into the future and thru his alcohol-glazed eyes sees this headline. “Republicans block tax cut for middle-class. “