Middle-class Tax Cuts, Bye-Bye
According to the press release below from House Minority Leader John Boehner the Democrats eliminated middle-class tax cuts in the budget that will be voted on later this week. Imagine that. Do you remember candidate and now President Barack Obama promised that no one making less than $250K would pay ‘one dime more in taxes’? The same candidate, now President who promised to eliminate earmarks and lobbyists and yet signed a bill with more than 9000 earmarks and hired more than a dozen lobbyists for his administration. Of course he also promised to allow the public to view and comment on the stimulus package before it was voted on which also didn’t happen. The really sad thing was not one member of Congress read it before voting either. That must have been a revision to his plan for open, transparent and accountable government.
And yet there are polls indicating most people still have confidence in the new administration and the direction the country is taking. For those who agree with that you may want to start actually paying attention to what is going on in Washington and elsewhere.
Stanford Matthews
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Dems Dump Middle-Class Tax Cuts from Budget While Keeping New National Energy Tax That Hits All Americans
Eighty-One Percent of Americans Believe Middle-Class Tax Relief is “Important” to Keep in Budget, New Survey Shows
Washington, Mar 30 - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today challenged President Obama’s apparent decision to allow the Democratic-controlled Congress to dump his long-promised middle-class tax cut from the FY 2010 budget, and vowed Republicans will offer a better budget that cuts taxes for middle-class families instead of raising them through a new national energy tax.
“This is an epic bait-and-switch that should infuriate every middle-class family in America,” Boehner said. “The American people overwhelmingly believe middle-class tax relief is essential to getting our economy moving again. But instead of cutting taxes for middle-class families, Washington Democrats are raising their taxes by as much as $3,100 a year in the middle of a deep recession.”
President Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag, has endorsed both the House and Senate versions of the President’s FY 2010 budget – but according to the New York Times, “neither would extend a middle-class tax cut championed by Mr. Obama beyond 2010 unless a source of revenue to pay for it is identified.” Meanwhile, Boehner noted that a new national energy tax insisted upon by the President will hit virtually every American family and small business and could cost every American household up to $3,100 a year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) confirmed this in public comments last week in which he indicated Democrats will use revenue from the President’s new national energy tax to pay for an expansion of government-run health care.
According to a Rasmussen survey released today, 81 percent of Americans believe it is important for Congress to pass a budget that includes the middle-class tax relief that was frequently promised but now abandoned by President Obama. Only 15 percent say the promised middle-class tax relief is not important.
“The Democratic budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much,” Boehner said. “It will hurt middle-class families at a time when they can least afford it.”
“Americans deserve a better budget, and members of all political stripes will have the chance to vote for one when the full text of the GOP alternative being finalized by Rep. Paul Ryan [R-WI] is released this week,” Boehner added. “Instead of raising taxes on middle-class families and all Americans through the President’s national energy tax, Republicans will do what the American people want their government to do: we will curb spending, control the debt, and reduce the tax burden on working families and small businesses to create jobs and ease the strain on family budgets.”
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