Could the Democrats shut down the Senate over the tax cuts for the rich?

[Karmadillo]

I can't think of a single reason to allow the cuts to pass without a fight. The Republicans are determined to replace what remains of the New Deal with the New Feudalism. It's awfully late in the day, but we might as well draw the line here.

http://www.civilrights.org/issues/labor/details.cfm?id=43100

Congress is poised to vote on a $70 billion tax cut bill that lavishes benefits on wealthy individuals at the expense of ordinary families, the National Women's Law Center said today.

Lawmakers should oppose this tax bill, which represents distorted priorities. The tax cut reconciliation bill (H.R. 4297) provides households with income of $1 million or more an average tax break of $42,000. In gross contrast, the more than three-quarters of the nation's households with annual income of $75,000 or less will receive an average tax cut of $30 for one year - not even enough to pay for a single tank of gas. And average families will end up footing the bill for millionaire tax breaks through cuts in vital services and added national debt.

"There are a lot of priorities that can be addressed with $70 billion," said Nancy Duff Campbell, Co-President of the National Women's Law Center. "Consumers are struggling to pay the rising cost of gasoline. More and more Americans can't afford health care. Many families can't afford child care. At a time when so many in our country are struggling to make ends meet and the nation's deficit is growing, there is no justification for giving millionaires $42,000 more in tax breaks."

The $70 billion tax break package is a companion piece to the so-called Deficit Reduction Act, which President Bush signed earlier this year. Under the guise of deficit reduction, the bill slashed $39 billion from services for low- and moderate-income Americans, including health programs, student loans, and child support enforcement. After these drastic program cuts, lawmakers delayed a vote on the tax cut bill to disguise the fact that tax cuts for millionaires were being financed in part by cuts to programs vital to ordinary Americans.

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[WI_DEM]

1. They should.

[goclark]

2. I thought Randi said they can't filibuster

because it is under the $$ amount for a filibuster!

If that is so This is outrageous!

The Democrats better do something about it, NOW!

[kurth]

3. FILIBUSTER this piece of crap!

Where's the health care for working Americans?

[Agony]

4. Shut it Down.

Gridlock is a good thing, even when dems are in power.

[NJ_Lib]

5. So, it's business as usual at the WH...

... Regardless of the fast and furious punches the Chimp administration is taking, it's just business as usual over there, huh?

[Ms. Clio]

6. and yet the news/traffic station I listen to claimed this was a cut

that benefited the middle class, too. I knew that absolutely was not the case from reading here -- but how many people heading off to work this morning also knew what an utter and monstrous lie they had just heard?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Too late.

Headed to Chimp's desk where he'll sign it with the stick he uses to dig ants out of the ground with.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/11/tax.cuts.ap/index.html