Dems’ screw-the-wealth-producers bill passes, Pelosi gloats
Weaker Pelosi personally announced the vote count just a few minutes ago on their screw-the-wealth-producers bill masquerading as a middle-class tax cut. Democrats applauded on the House floor.
Final tally: 234-188.
20 Democrats voted no.
3 Republicans voted yes.
According to NRO’s Dan Foster, those three were Ron Paul, Walter Jones, and Jimmy Duncan.
Waiting for roll call to be posted. Will update as soon as it’s available.
Meantime, White House negotiations will resume in the Capitol at 4:15pm Eastern.
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We need 42 Senators to stick to their guns and squash this in the Senate.
Heck, it’s not like I actually want a job or anything.
why not, they’ve been crapping on it for years.
Their last act of defiant socialism.
Beside attacking this as class warfare, we must attack the marriage penalty. I have NEVER heard a rationale for it. GOP should reject it as being biased and bigoted.
and the American public will be applauding on the last day of session for this Congress….
Ron Paul. Wow! Too bad for the Libertarian creed huh?
Pelosi. Evil Incarnate. Smiling on the bridge of the Titanic. May she burn eternally in an ethanol-fueled hell.
I don’t think the Libertarian creed calls for hanging with the Republicans.
I don’t think he’s ever voted against a tax cut. Heck, he’d like to abolish the whole progressive income tax.
Hey I have an off topic quick question for Michelle, or anyone who flys out of or through Denver international airport.
If TSA gives you a pat down does that make you part of the mile high club?
The true colors of Ron Paul. I was so sick of how he would be our savior.
I happen to be exempt from this bill. I think you have to have a job and/or some sort of wealth. I am on the Obama plan except too white for benefits.
It depends on your sexual preference and whether or not your heavy breathing is caused by the thin air at that altitude.
Otherwise, you’re just having a conversation with Darth Vader.
There’s a joke about using The Force here somewhere, but I just can’t find it.
Why does he want to punish marriage?
They’re like bad renters responding to an eviction notice by trashing the apartment. Maybe nostalgia will collide with their unhinged behavior, and they’ll steal the “W” keys from gov’t-owned computers on thier way out.
America doesn’t need Obama’s massive tax hikes. They are utterly unjustified.
What America needs is to eliminate Obama’s socialist entitlement programs, along with the entitlement programs of administrations past.
2012 can’t come soon enough.
What gets me everytime is how the media can say that Obama wants to extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, when for years Obama, the Dems, and the media have said that the Bush tax cuts were only for the rich.
Not to mention just how backwards this whole thing seems. The Dems want to extend unemployment benefits which have be proven to keep people from going back to work and stop tax cuts that actually would go a long way to helping create jobs.
What I would love the Republicans message to be is that they want to help people get back to work by extending all the tax cuts so jobs can be created.
If the RINOs in the senate cave and give this BS to Obama to sign, watch the stock market to CRASH by the end of the year when everyone dumps their stocks, etc., to take advantage of the long term and short term capital gains taxes. Oh, and let’s not forget dumping the stocks that pay dividends which will be taxed at the obnoxious 39.6% rate.
I will probably be shorting the market.
I am already seeing it my line of work. We are seeing insurance companies pulling out all the stops on reasons why they will not pay up. They are going to extremes even though they know in the end they will pay. I figure they insurance companies will push of paying this year to make as much profit for their business and then pay up next year when it will actually favor them to make less money.
I am already seeing it my line of work. We are seeing insurance companies pulling out all the stops on reasons why they will not pay up. They are going to extremes even though they know in the end they will pay. I figure they insurance companies will push of paying this year to make as much profit for their business and then pay up next year when it will actually favor them to make less money.
opps double post..sorry
I can’t for the life of me see how a lot of rich people got rich. I mean how can someone keep giving money to someone who wants to hurt them real bad. It doesn’t make sense. It would be like the IRS calling Bill Gates up and saying”You owe us $25 billion in taxes” and Bill Gates says “OK” with out talking with his accountants.
So…the discussion should be…”House Dems vote yes on new tax increase”.
Then point out the hypocrisy that RUSBO pointed out today…For years the DEMs declared “Tax cuts for the rich”. Now they say they are voting to “extend the middle class tax cuts”. Gee..you’ve been saying for years that only the rich received tax cuts, so which is it?
Are you lying now or were you lying for the last 9 years?
Which is it?
Now or Then?
eh?
O/T,
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What’s a bigger LIE is when the Democrats say why should they give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. Well, let’s see, last I looked, someone making $251K will now have to pay more. And last I looked that was still a 6-figure income. NOT a millionaire.
Oh, and one more thing. When Obama refers to tax cuts for “working families” making less than $250K. So, I guess those of us who make more than that are not “working”????
Please. The hypocrisy is sickening.
If all these Dems want to “tax the rich” how about they start by raising taxes on Congressional salaries. They all seem to be milionaires after a few years in Congress so why don’t they put their money where there mouth is.
my Patriot friends- don’t just blame the Dems-
it looks to me as though the Rs are-again – folding–
didn’t 8 Rs abandon ship a few days ago…
Yes – they did….
didn’t the Rs meet in a “bi-partisan” “fashion” w/bho a few days ago…
Yes–
I answered my rhetorical questions…
C-CS
Yeah, well…they also applauded for Chowie Wangle when he got up and gave his sob story after being censored. The guy is a criminal and yet the regressive doofuses clap for him. These people disgust me more every day. How long, Lord, must we endure these fools??
Not an original idea by me – but shouldn’t the Obamas be subject to a “windfall profit tax” on the huge jump in income from half a million to over 5 million in one year?
Walter Jones frequently votes with the Democrats. There are 15 pages full of his votes against the Republican party.
Here’s page 1 of 15.
OK, just reported now on Drudge – reiterates basically what I said earlier…they’re talking about delaying. I’m talking about RINOs going along with Dem plan. Same thing will occur regardless of which way they go. Vote or delay. Prepare for major crash.
Delaying Tax Vote Could Crash Stock Market
The new gang of Four:
Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Obama.
In 50 years obama will be spoken in the same sentence as the other three. He’s that evil.
Ron Paul. Another example of old age political dementia. Blame it on bad hearing. Blame it on cataracts. Who Am I? Where Am I? Do we need an age speed limit for politicians? I can’t vote 55.
Ron Paul exhibits far too many instances of extremely poor judgment for me to ever trust him at this point. I hope his kid is more of a conservative than he is.
Pelosi personifies the chicken crap Boehner referred to…
Republicans always let Democrats define terms. (That’s probably because the MSM sides with the democrats and only uses their terms.) Not raising taxes becomes a “tax cut” for the middle-class. Raising taxes on the rich becomes doing away with “tax breaks” for the rich.
Republicans should call it what it is: raising taxes on employers. What will that do to job creation in this economy? If you’re not sure, try asking your boss if having to pay more in taxes next year will make your job more secure and get you a bigger raise.
Well, this cannot bode well for anybody. Those who are not directly effected by this (those who do not earn much money in the first place–like me) are going to simply languish in relative poverty, and those who are will simply have to tighten their belts and weather the storm.
Obama can tell everyone in 2012 that he “cut taxes” for the vast majority of us, but when the economy has tanked, and all looks lost, what good will that do?
Just for you botox nan….
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Hopefully one day Piglosi will be dream ranting and her urine bag bursts.
This whole vote is a waste of time and now I see that Harry Reid is planning on bringing it to a vote in the Senate. Let’s hope the Republicans stick to their pledge and fillibuster it.
It is also worth noting that while all these shennanigans go on the house still has not passed a budget for the government. The budget continuation that passed a few months ago runs out today, so if they do not pass either another continuation (and punt the actual budget to next year) or pass a budget now we will see a governmnet shutdown.
Remember, the Constitution provides for none of this theft of citizen wealth. The commerce clause and “providing for the general welfare” spoke to the federal government operating as a centralized traffic cop, the regulator and promoter of commerce for the country.
The federal government was never envisioned by anyone at the founding to be an authoritarian entity designed to be served by the states. The federal government was established to serve the people living in the “various states” by providing a smooth path for commerce and personal liberty. The government is now a self-serving entity controlled one party Statists, demanding absolute compliance from the states. The key to the Statists’ power is their continuing ability to borrow, print currency, and confiscate the wealth of the citizenry – spending it all to create dependency and to buy political loyalty. This is wrong on so many levels.
We are absolutely upside down from what the Constitution mandated, and we have no one in a leadership position willing and able to articulate the perilous position we are in. We remain on the precipice of a decent into totalitarian tyrrany for sure.
Our businesses are over regulated and over taxed. Why invest here in anything other than a burger flippin joint? Hire minimum wage illegals, and serve fries with that meal, that’s all America does anymore. Our education K-12 trains our kids for that job, but they won’t do it as it is beneath their station in life, and they can’t get into the industries IN DEMAND because they can’t make change from a dollar, so we have to hire foriegners to do those jobs. Two of my relatives are head hunters, one for the public sector, and last week he was bidding against other head hunters deals for an India Indian at $55.00 per hour. For those math challenged, that is $110,000 per year. I asked him why no Americans, NO MATH SKILLS AND PROGRAMMING SKILLS. Parents you better start raising hell with your school about teaching our kids beyond simple arithmetic, or their future will be in cleaning green card engineers houses.
cheapseat said:
Lets not be too harsh, children of school age in America do rank highest in the world about feeling good about themselves.
Wrong headline. This is another teaching moment the GOP and many conservatives have dropped the ball on. This proper title is Dem’s screw productive sector in favor of special interests.
The proper (near) bumper sticker retort to the Dem’s taxing the wealthy is it’s a tax on the ailing productive sector that will only make it sicker. The leaders of the productive sector have the knowledge of how to surround themselves with fellow productive worker bees to provide goods, services AND PROSPERITY to the nation.
Taking money out of the productive private sector and giving it to Obamacrat special interests that live outside common sense marketplace checks and balances is what’s caused the entire financial/jobs/economic meltdown the US is currently struggling to get over.
You really believe that Ron Paul voted for an increase in taxes, simply because he voted for this measure?
We know that this vote was nothing more than a ploy by Pelosi, symbolic at best.
But believing that Ron Paul sided with tax and spend Dems is ridiculous. Paul is voting for a continuation of a tax cut here.
How could anyone, in good conscience, not vote to prevent a tax increase at least on some of the people. Paul, I’m certain, would prefer (and will vote when it comes up) to cut taxes for all Americans and to make them permanent. Reading anything into this week’s pretend legislation from the lame duck Speaker is nonsense.
But, if we are going to read nonsense into all of this, then are the Republicans who voted against it saying that the tax cuts should expire for everyone? Of course not.
Let’s give Ron Paul the same benefit of the doubt.