Huffington Post: "White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts"

[Jeffersons Ghost]

White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top adviser suggested to The Huffington Post late Wednesday that the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board, temporary continuation of steep Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers.

That appears to be the only way, said David Axelrod, that middle-class taxpayers can keep their tax cuts, given the legislative and political realities facing Obama in the aftermath of last week's electoral defeat.

"We have to deal with the world as we find it," Axelrod said during an unusually candid and reflective 90-minute interview in his office, steps away from the Oval Office. "The world of what it takes to get this done."

"There are concerns," he added, that Congress will continue to kick the can down the road in the future by passing temporary extensions for the wealthy time and time again. "But I don't want to trade away security for the middle class in order to make that point.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/white-house-gives-in-on-bush-tax-cuts_n_781992.html

[babylonsister]

1. Debunked...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=518317&mesg_id=518317

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. good! thanks for your post

[RockaFowler]

2. Why does this keep getting posted??

[meegbear]

3. Because it's the screaming headline on HuffPost.com ...

QED

[FSogol]

4. BS. Already debunked. n/t

[PensiveGadfly]

6. Yes, but ...

Check out the comments at HuffPo on that headline. More (and faster) than I have ever seen. Ought to give the administration something to think about.

[babylonsister]

7. "Thank you for your concern."

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