Steny Hoyer claims that an expiration of the Bush tax cuts will be a Republican tax increase on the middle class

Last week Steny Hoyer claimed that when the Bush tax cuts expired at the end of this year that it would amount to a “Republican tax increase on working Americans.” He meant to say working class– or middle class– Americans.

He continued:

We have no intention of allowing the Republican tax increase — that their policies would lead to — to go into effect for working Americans. Period,” he said. “We’re going to act and make sure that the Republican phase out and increase in taxes does not end as they provided for in the laws they passed

This is some of the most convoluted logic that I have ever heard. Because the Democrats refused to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, the fact that these taxes are about to sunset means the Republicans will be responsible for raising taxes on working class Americans when the tax cuts expire at the end of this year according to Steny Hoyer. Good luck with that one.

President Bush and the Republicans tried for years to get the Democrats to agree with the idea of making the tax cuts permanent but were unable to get Democrat support– they opposed this effort at every turn– but now that those tax cuts are on the verge of ending these very same Democrats are trying to blame the impending tax increases on the Republican party?!

The gall that this man is showing is unbelievable, but still he went on to say something that I found very interesting when you consider the position of the Democrats over the last seven years or so:

If we left the Republican policies in place, their [working Americans] taxes would be increased next year. We’re not going to let that happen

I thought the Bush tax cuts were only given to the wealthy Americans, isn’t that what Democrats have been claiming all these years? With Steny Hoyer’s assertion that working class Americans would face a tax increase if the Bush tax cuts are not made permanent he is finally admitting that the Bush tax cuts were not just for the richest Americans after all.

After years of fighting against making the Bush tax cuts permanent– and after years of denying that working class Americans saw any decrease in taxes all of these years– suddenly the Democrats are going to fight to keep the working class tax cuts in place; the same tax cuts that they denied even existed all of these years?

These people are shameless.