Obama Flees Country, Announces Impending Tax Hike
He
says "we" can't afford letting people keep more of their own money, as
if it's to government's money to begin with. He clearly hasn't learned
a thing from Tuesday's beatdown at the polls.But at a time when we are going to ask folks across the board to make such difficult sacrifices, I don’t see how we can afford to borrow an additional $700 billion from other countries to make all the Bush tax cuts permanent, even for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. We’d be digging ourselves into an even deeper fiscal hole and passing the burden on to our children.Senator-elect Marco Rubio gets it:
I recognize that both parties are going to have to work together and compromise to get something done here. But I want to make my priorities clear from the start. One: middle class families need permanent tax relief. And two: I believe we can’t afford to borrow and spend another $700 billion on permanent tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
The challenges are too great, too generational in scope for us to be merely opponents of bad policies. Instead, we will put forward bold ideas and have the courage to fight for them. This means preventing a massive tax increase scheduled to hit every American taxpayer at the end of the year. It means repealing and replacing the disastrous health care bill. It means simplifying our tax code, and tackling a debt that is pushing us to the brink of our own Greece-like day of reckoning.If the Democrats are so stupid as to sock us with a tax increase, and letting the Bush tax cuts expire means exactly that, they'll have confirmed they did not receive the message Tuesday.
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