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Boehner: I'll Drop Tax Cut for Rich If I Have To [reality check at post 121]

Posted on by roses of sharon

(CBS) The leading Republican in the House, and a vocal proponent of allowing an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, including the wealthiest 3% of earners, objected to charges by President Obama that Republicans are holding tax breaks for the bottom 97% of earners hostage unless the wealthiest also get an extension.

In a pre-taped interview to appear on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner said that, if approving a bill to extend breaks for middle class income Americans were "the only option," he would support it.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans would cost $700 billion over the next decade.

At a speech in Ohio earlier this week, Mr. Obama said, "With all the other budgetary pressures we have - with all the Republicans' talk about wanting to shrink the deficit - they would have us borrow $700 billion over the next 10 years to give a tax cut of about $100,000 each to folks who are already millionaires."



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Boehner Offers Concession on Tax Cuts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2586035/posts



To: roses of sharon

John Kerry your unannounced brother or some distant kin, idiotBoehner?



To: roses of sharon

Another “meet em halfway” Roy Blunt type.

What a disappointment.



To: roses of sharon

Of ocurse you will John, jacka$$.



by 4 posted onby mad_as_he$$ (Playing by the rules only works if both sides do it!)

To: roses of sharon

Jackass



by 5 posted onby svcw (Everyday the enemy tries to offer you an apple, when God has already given us an orchard.)

To: roses of sharon

Why should any of us pay for the mistakes the soialist loons in the White House make to further their own agenda?



by 6 posted onby Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)

To: roses of sharon

Big mistake



To: roses of sharon

Michelle Bachman for Speaker of the House.



To: roses of sharon

Gimme a R

Gimme an I

Gimme a N

Gimme an O What does that spell? Boehner, Boehner, Boehner



by 9 posted onby UCFRoadWarrior (They don't let you build churches in Mecca)

To: roses of sharon

Keeping the Bush tax cuts on the middle class means nothing if you raise the taxes on small businesses and the middle class lose their jobs. How stupid is this?



by 10 posted onby netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)

To: roses of sharon

Boner should have one upped the dems, and called for a two year payroll tax holiday for those beloved people earning $250k or less per year. Force the dems to stand against it.



by 11 posted onby KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")

To: roses of sharon

Talk like this is going to keep the Democrats in power.



To: roses of sharon

If you give up on this issue, what else will you cave on?



To: Argus

“Michelle Bachman for Speaker of the House.” Absolutely she is more American than the bunch of them put together.



by 14 posted onby Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)

To: roses of sharon

What is it about Versailles on the Potomac that robs a man of principles, hearing and ability to think? Get with it, Johnny Sun Tan. You obviously have not been listening. TAXED

ENOUGH

ALREADY



by 15 posted onby NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)

To: roses of sharon

That’s not a concession. The Dems set a trap and Boehner didn’t take the bait. The Dems wanted him to oppose any tax cuts unless he gets them for the top brackets. Then the Dems would have said Republicans wont accept tax cuts for the middle class unless they can get them for the rich. Bob Schaeffer tried 3 times to get Boehner to fall into that trap and he didn’t. He made it clear what he wanted, but said if his only choice is to accept tax cuts for people below $250K he would.



To: roses of sharon

Nothing like running up a white flag before the battle’s been decided. It’s good to know the GOP leadership is so strong on principle. They gotta go, along with the Dims.



by 17 posted onby PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)

To: roses of sharon

We are going to have to have a big fight with the Republican Ruling Class begining January 2011, which or course includes Boehner.



by 18 posted onby Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years)

To: roses of sharon

“The Congressional Budget Office has estimated extending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans would cost $700 billion over the next decade.” The CBO is full of crap too. Tax cuts cost nothing, zip, natta. Name one dime that government is forced to pay out because taxes are cut?



by 19 posted onby Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)

To: roses of sharon

Are there any leaders left in the GOP?



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