GOP to Democrats: If you raise taxes now, we'll cut them back when we win power

[DonViejo]

"We don't like the taxes," said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

May 19, 2021, 8:23 AM EDT
By Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON — Republicans are sending a pointed warning to congressional Democrats: If you raise taxes on corporations and top earners, we'll just cut them back when we regain power.

President Joe Biden is considering whether to strike a deal with Republicans on a modest infrastructure package that wouldn't raise taxes — a GOP red line — or to go it alone and pass a larger bill through a special process that can be done with only Democratic votes. Or to do both.

Either way, the two sides are headed for a showdown over taxes, which Biden sees as key to funding priorities like clean energy investments and money to care for children and the elderly. And Republicans are quick to say Democrats' gains may be short-lived.

"There's no doubt in my mind that anybody running next year should be talking about reversing what I think are going to be tax increases at the worst possible time," said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., arguing that raising taxes on corporations and capital gains would harm the economy.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-democrats-if-you-raise-taxes-now-we-ll-cut-n1267861

[Blue Owl]

1. Rand Paul doesn't like fair taxation?

Tough shit, Fucko. Go cry in your fucking signed copy of “Atlas Shrugged”

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Yea no shit you were going to do that anyway

[Wounded Bear]

3. So fucking what? Repubs will lower taxes next time they're in power any way.

It's what they do.

[-misanthroptimist]

4. Joe, they won't make any deal that they intend to keep.

Do what needs to be done and move on. If Republicans lower taxes for their rich friends later...well, we can stop that, can't we? GOTV and make sure they never have the opportunity.

[DFW]

5. What a surprisingly dastardly threat

NOT

They‘ve been doing that every time they take the White House from a Democrat for the last few decades. What kind of threat is that, to say, „we‘re going to do the same thing we‘ve always done!“ Well THAT should have us all quaking in our boots. It‘s as if the sun were threatening to rise in the east tomorrow! Well, damn, who would ever have imagined that?

[JoanofArgh]

6. What else is new? Every Democrat should use this in their campaigning.

[gratuitous]

7. So, in the meantime, we can start paying for stuff?

We'll see what your election chances are when you have to oppose a record of projects completed, and most voters haven't seen one dollar more in taxes. Leave these greedy fear-mongers behind.

[HAB911]

8. DUH

[4Q2u2]

9. First off

It is not raising taxes. It is putting them back to some semblance of fairness.
Democrats are just going back to where they were before you gutted them twice and created your HUGE Deficits.

[spanone]

10. threats, that's all they have.

[RegularJam]

11. Why not. They are the party of fiscal irresponsibility.

Maybe taxes had something to do with Deficit Donald running over 100% debt to gdp ratio.

What a fiscally irresponsible shit bag. And that number is pre-Covid.