Boehner Offers The GOP Alternative - Surprise! - Tax Cuts And Deregulation!

[Median Democrat]

Here is GOP Minority Leader Boehner proposing that we scrap this whole stimulus idea, and simply offer more of Bush's tax cuts and deregulation. Of course, with the stock prices and property values falling, he fails to explain how a cut in capital gains tax will help in an era where there are no capital gains. Well, at least Boehner is consistent, if not consistently wrong.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/congressional-leaders-clash-over-economic/story.aspx?guid=%7BD360F1A1-EBCA-41F7-BBEF-648BCFDD1842%7D&dist=msr_29

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Boehner, meanwhile, proposed cutting taxes on capital gains and corporations.
"If we're really serious about creating jobs, what we ought to do is, we ought to eliminate the capital gains tax for the next two years on any equities that are purchased," he said. He argued that cutting the corporate income tax would help boost employment.

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[Deja Q]

1. Was he the guy that Mike Siever from 'Growing Pains' called "Boner" because he's dumb?

:shrug:

[rurallib]

2. Republicans believe in a graduated income tax

the more you make the less you pay. That way little people who have crap jobs can show their appreciation for those who gave them the jobs by building them roads and bridges and paying for their employers garbage to be picked up. It is the natural order of things. Else, why would God give the rich all that money.