Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal Doesn't Mean Future Accords
Monday, December 20, 2010
Alan Grayson - "Obama's Deal Is Really 'Obama's Surrender to GOP":
On Lawrence O'Donnell'See the clip.s show, congressma n Alan Grayson talks about Obama's deal with the GOP on keeping Bush's tax cuts for the rich. "You can always reach an agreement when you give up"
Also, "This deadline that we've been talking about is an artificial deadline. We change taxes retroactively all the time. The president can direct the IRS to keep withholdin g rates exactly where they are so that nobody is hit by higher rates on January 1st."
By the way, look at the date.
There was (and is, had Obama stayed the flick out of it) plenty of time before 12/31 to break up that bill and pass tax cuts for the middle class alone (if that is so desired -- I'm in the middle class and I'm willing to forego a tax cut in order to bring down the deficit, which will have a much greater benefit on our economy overall and to me and all others in the poor and middle classes). Legislatio
If it doesn't pass, if Republican
But let's remember that Republican
Is anybody seriously suggesting that Democrats aren't capable of doing the same thing?
Or are Democratic voters going to finally figure out that Democrats in Congress and the White House don't want what their constituen
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