Discussion: The GOP Is Not Happy About Obama's Tax Proposal

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We cant possibly tax the Capital Gains Trust Fund folks! Who will ski in Vail?

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It doesn’t matter if they’re not happy. It doesn’t matter if they ARE.

What MATTERS is a ni(CLANG!) is holding the veto pen.

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Protect the rich! Assault the poor!

2016 Republican National Platform.

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Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill… said on ABC’s “This Week” that the president has fallen short by failing to establish close ties to Congress.

So the top Republicans met after the President was first elected and vowed to obstruct everything he tried to accomplish. It takes incredible douchery to turn-around 6 years later and say he did not establish ties. The Republican party is essentially disloyal IMO. They are the dis-loyal opposition.

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That’s been the Republican platform since time out of mind. That, and making damned sure gays are never allowed to be happy.

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Totally unimpressed that the president chose this moment to bring this forward. At least during a split congress – or even , God forbid, a Dem one – we would have some sort of discussion, if not an actual Bill.

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Who cares if the Republicans are not happy. Stick it in their craw and veto anything the GOP put up and then accuse them of being a do nothing congress.

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Slapping Small Business! Savers! Investors! Job Creators! Punishing Success! Tax and Spend! Job Killing! Class Warfare! Socialism! Europe! Lazy Brown People! Oogah Boogah! Oogah effing Boogah!

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Key Republicans in both chambers indicated they would oppose the plan.

In other news: Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted is still trying to figure out a way to rig the 2012 presidential election.

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Actually go back and take a look at the Republican platforms from around 1952-1976. They are actually quite moderate and reasonable compared to today’s retrogrades.

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Obama is asking for nothing more than having supply-siders settle up for the wages and benefits they’ve been withholding for three decades. Trickle-down, indeed.

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Republicans are going to have a hard time defending the claim that their preferred policies have been successful at expanding the economy, promoting savings and creating jobs, when any comparison between Obama and Bush 43, for instance, shows exactly the opposite.

That’s not going to stop them from making the claim, but at this point, it’s like they’re wind-up robots in desperate need of an upgrade.

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It is good to see Obama on the offensive.

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here is a tax idea, close corporate tax loopholes and lower the rate to 22% and raise the highest personal rate to 46% and tax capital gains as regular income if its more than 40% of your annual income. also, provide two types of tax credits; the stable workforce credit and the high executive pay gap credit. the workforce credit would provide a tax deduction if your company did not layoff workers for a whole year (this could be a percentage). the executive pay gap credit would provide tax deductions to those companies whose high paid executives were within a certain percentage of the lowest paid worker in the company.

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Can you imagine a skiing turtle? Gamera (McConnel)!

I am pretty sure that Obama did not bring this up to impress you Daytrader.

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Well if you are right, since I voted for him twice, things are even worse than I thought.

Reagan haters.

The stepped up basis is really what’s pissing them off. That’s a big time preservation mechanism of inherited wealth.

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Who will ski in Vail?

Doctors. Lawyers. Bankers. Foreigners.

Same as it ever was.