NP - Sign Ant- Obama-GOP Tax Cut Petition

[Albert Rolls]

They are only losing the majority in the House and they could conceivably block the extention of the tax cuts in the Senate even without a majority (so long as they had at least 41 members who would stick together or the repubs lacked the two-thirds majority needed to override a vet). They cannot, it is true, force Obama's plan through, but really, as someone else noted on here, not extending the tax cuts would do a lot toward reigning in the deficit while helping keep programs that help the most vulnerable members of society.  


-----Original Message-----
>From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 8, 2010 6:23 PM
>To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: NP - Sign Ant- Obama-GOP Tax Cut Petition
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>With the Dems losing the majority, they couldn't do like Albert said.
>Sorry.  There's that little thing called reality that has to be dealt
>with.  It's part of Real-Politik, ya know.
>
>AsB4,
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>Henry Mu
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>On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:54 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "How should he fight?   Stand up for what he is supposed to believe in, like the Republicans are doing."  In practical terms, how does one do that?  And in the mean time, millions of people would start to go hungry.   Deals had to be made.  They could have been worse, given the recent elections.
>>
>> Like Albert said:
>> "Do what the repubs do and stick to one's guns. A continuation of tax
>> cuts for those earning under $200,000 (singles) or $250,000 (couples)
>> but not above or no continuation of the tax cuts for anyone."
>>
>> No continuation of tax cuts for anyone wouldn't cost anyone a cent
>> immediately, not until tax day.  That would have given the Dems plenty
>> of time to repeatedly offer the new Obama tax cuts for the
>> non-wealthy.  The Repubs couldn't withstand that kind of heat for
>> long.
>>
>> Unemployment benefits could then immediately have been "payed for" by
>> the  increased (projected) income from the raised wealthy-folks taxes,
>> taking away Repubs excuse of "we can't afford it."
>>
>> The stimulous of lessened payroll taxes was an easy sell for Repubs,
>> and would also have been hard for them to hold out against for long.
>>
>> David Morris
>>