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Subscribe to RSSSpeaker John Boehner and House Majority Eric Cantor pen a USA Today op-ed, in which the GOP leaders draw another line in the sand against tax increases. “Over the last few months, we tried to persuade President Obama to do something significant to address our debt crisis, on the scale achieved in the House Republican budget. Yet time and again, he and his allies demanded tax increases on families and small businesses, tax increases that would destroy jobs. With nervous markets, unemployment at more than 9% and millions of Americans asking, ‘Where are the jobs?,’ the worst thing Washington can do for our economy is raise taxes on the people we need to start hiring again.”
More: “Of course, out-of-control spending isn't the only Washington-imposed roadblock to job creation. That's why we must dedicate ourselves to pro-growth policies that help create middle-class jobs, make it easier for existing businesses to thrive and allow more start-up companies to flourish. This means easing the tax burden on small businesses and removing burdensome, redundant regulations that impede private sector investment and job creation. It's past time to harness our abundant supply of natural resources in America, develop new sources of energy and create jobs here at home. And we should increase competitiveness for American manufacturers by passing job-creating free trade agreements that would open new markets for American-made goods. All told, at least 10 House-passed jobs bills reflecting some of these reforms are awaiting action in the Democratic-led Senate.”
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Fake Tan Boehner took his down time between golf rounds to pen an op-ed? I'm sure that was hard work for his aides, since they probably wrote it for him.
Oh, and Boehner, the Fortune 500 is sitting on record piles of cash and liquidity. If they wanted to hire again, they would have done so already. There's nothing you can do to make them hire when they've realized that they can get most of the work done with 1.3 fewer employees.
And if you want the markets to calm down, perhaps you shouldn't drive the country and the global economy to the brink of default, all the while laughing off the consequences.
To finally get these idiots to shut up about cutting taxes creates jobs; why don't we have a moratorium for 1 month on all Federal taxes and see how many jobs get created. My guess is none.
They need to start listening instead of trying to tell us what to think. The American people (Including Warren Buffet) are strongly saying that tax cuts for the top 2% hasn't created any jobs, just bigger bank accounts for them.
Grand Moff Joseph, you are on target.
Also, this op-ed has Eric Cantor written all over it. Boehner's verbal phrases are similar to Bush; speaking in four to five sentences at a time.
Maybe Cantor should run for the Office of the Presidency since he has so much to say at all the Republican press conferences.
These wingnuts keep spewing the same old stuff. Enough already!
Wow - for a minute there I thought that they were going to cancel the rest of their 5 week vacation. Should have known better.
Let's get to work but still drawing lines on revenues...........nothing seems to have changed.
LIE! Tax increases on families and small businesses? It was the president and Dems who passed tax cuts for working families in the stimulus, and who wanted to keep the Bush tax cuts for working families, and who initiated the payroll tax cuts for small businesses. And it's YOU Boehner, Cantor, et al, who try to block all these solutions when it comes to passing anything.
Closing loopholes and ending subsidies would only affect hedge fund managers, Big Oil, and corporate jet owners. Letting Bush's tax cuts expire for the richest 2% would only affect 2% of the population, most of whom are NOT job creators. They are doctors, lawyers, investment bankers who use write-offs to show little or no income on their tax returns. And the 1% like Warren Buffet whose income is from dividends and capital gains only pay a 17% tax rate.
JOBS! Yet time and again millions of Americans are asking "Where are the jobs?" More specifically, where is a JOBS BILL from the Republican House? Jobs won't magically appear with the same failed policies of this past decade. Boehner -- Get off the golf course, stop leaving early for Happy Hour, and dedicate yourself to realistic "pro-growth policies to create good jobs."
Hint – Since companies are sitting on piles of cash, hiring has nothing to do with taxes or regulation or out-of-control-spending—maybe uncertainty caused by the GOP/TP taking the nation hostage--but it's all about supply and demand. You have to create jobs to stimulate demand!
The GOP/TP is stuck on stupid. If we hear the "out-of-control-spending" talking point one more time from these idiots, The People are going to treat them pretty ugly in 2012!
Yeah, Baby! Let's get it on!
Why do Cantor and Boehner continue this BS spin that Tax Rates affect employers' ability to hire? Tax rates have never been lower and yet employers refuse to hire?
Warren Buffett calls it BS. Who am I more likely to believe...Cantor and Boehner or Buffett?
Obviously YOU are not a biz owner. Maybe if you had skin in that game you would understand.
Buffett is a damn BILLIONAIRE.........He has money to throw away to the government but I don't see his old azz volunteering to give the goverment a few more billion than required. Ask Buffett to give up the tax breaks he receive from his foundation to which 90% of the donated money is returned in the form of a refund yearly. I bet his azz don't even understand the complexities his CPA's and lawyers deal with to make sure he remains a BILLIONAIRE.
So when you start riding Buffett's jock, you just think about the source. BTW: Buffett doesn't run jack anymore; his kids and grandkids control everything. Ask them if they would like to send Uncle Sam a few more billion on behalf of papa and see what response you get.
Da Noid==You would have to believe Buffett as Boehner and Cantor cannot tell the truth even if it means the US will go off the cliff. It's just not in their genes to tell the truth.
Cantor is leading Boehner by the nose. Boehner is Speaker; Cantor is a want-to-be Speaker or President of the United States.
Buffett is being honest. Boehner and Cantor practice dishonesty; its in the genes.
Tex- small business and Exon are not one in the same. Open your eyes.
Also, Tex, please be specific (like Boehner and Cantor weren't). Name two regulations that directly impact your business (instituted under Obama's term) that you want rescinded. And if you don't want your taxes raised, then exactly who do you propose should pay for the 80 percent of the deficit created under Reagan, H W Bush and W? Who do you propose should pay for the wars? Must it all be paid for by the middle class and the poor losing services, benefits and public sector jobs?
Right Wm -- Or more specifically he can try to name one regulation that is preventing him from hiring.
"Let's get to work."
...so sayeth the guys in the middle of their 5-week vacation.
These two clowns are the biggest fakes in the whole Congress! I really hope the people really see them for what they are when election time comes around. Ohio and Virginia would be much better off without these men making mockeries of the whole country. Mutt and Jeff, to be sure!
The American people will fall for it again JoAnn Moundsville. The voter likes a good sound bite. Nothing substantial just a sound bite. re: cut taxes. Voters eat this crap up.
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You seem to have a defeatist attitude about the American people. If you are right, we all are in trouble if any Republican is put in the White House in 2012.
Picture this! An agressive Republican agenda for Chinese immigration. Cheap labor, low wages will be here in the U.S. No longer a need to ship businesses overseas. The American people would be at a greater loss than now. JOBS AND OUR DIGNITY.
It's not a defeatist attitude Joyce. The Democrats will take time to spell out where they want to take the country, and along comes the tea people GOP with a sound bite (lie) about the plan and the media grabs on to the sound bite and that sound bite becomes the news for a week or more, nothing about the plan just the sound bite.
Cantor and Boehner ask the right question..."Where are the jobs?"
Unfortunately, the media let's them continue to get away with ignoring the fact that the wealthy and businesses have seen tax cuts over the past decade, but they have not created jobs in America.
Instead the wealthy are buying vacation homes in Costa Rica and other parts of the world.
Well "Dan" last month the issue du jour was the deficit, this month it's jobs. Oh but wait, if we just beg more from the mythical "job creators" they will come through. If we just give them more tax breaks they will free up the $2T they are sitting on and they will some how stop outsourcing jobs. I like to refer to them as the "Prophets" as they are called on Star Trek's Deep Space 9. I'm sure more tax sacrifices will get them to hear our pleas...
Brain dead zealots hear nothing.
DAN,
Boehner and Cantor are technically asking themselves the question."Where are the Jobs". The Republican 2010 campaign was based on a "Pledge To America" that the Republicans will created, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Hensarling, Price and others staged themselves before the conservative media with an attire of plaid shirts and khaki pants espousing their Jobs, Jobs, Jobs agenda that has not happen to date. And, "No Jobs Bill in sight." The Republican House are charged with the responsibility to legislate since they are the majority. However, it appears, complaints and changing the constitution is viewed by them as governing.
Former Speaker Pelosi (Dem) and others were and still are responsible legislators and know how to govern.
Ever since Reagan made greed the national religion people like Cantor have rushed to do corperate America's bidding if they have their way you will have to take care of retirement and health care out of your own pocket good luck doing that on $7 per hour wich is all you will be making if they have things the way they want them it doesn't matter that you paid into these programs all your life they want people to believe you are getting a handout where are the christian values in this?
These guys are total frauds, they are on vacation and they are talking about "getting to work" please. All they want the president to work on is their same lame agenda and they won't compromise on anything. Do they think the American people are that stupid after witnessing the debt ceiling crap. Neither can control their own party and neither is the voice of reason. Cantor wants Boehner's job any way and was more than willing to throw him under the bus to get it. The majority of people want a balanced approach and they could care less. Where are these so called job creators and why aren't they coming to their rescue? What does Warren Buffet know any way??? They know better then him since they've created some many jobs (within their own staffs at least)...
Dear Boehner and Cantor: what's there to work on. You've already said, threu appointments to the debt commission, that you will INSIST on protecting the wealthy and corporate interests by refusing to eliminate the bush tax cuts on the wealthy and the closing of corporate loopholes. What is there to work on because with 80% of America supporting those tax increases, you defy the will of the people! Therefore, they are deal breakers!
So, enjoy your 10% approval ratings and be ready for the huge backlash coming against the GOP in 2012! Who knows, maybe you'll be set upon another 40 years of political purgatory!!
Hopefully they will use the time Congress is in recess to put forth a bill to create jobs. They can then lobby to get it through the House (where their party is in the majority) and use their influence, charm and good, common sense to get the bill through the Senate. At that point, it would go to the President's desk and could be signed into law. Mr. Boehner spent time in the private sector (he owned a company and got rich when it was sold) and Mr. Cantor has ties to the world of finance so they should be brimming with ideas about how government can get jobs created. Let's see the bill.
Wow, Boehner & Cantor WALK out of meetings and now they are trying to call the shots......how REPUBLICAN!
Their trying to deflect the fact their on a 5 week vacation. And the media will play along, just as they always do.
Talk about a one trick pony!!!
How do we get jobs? Tax cuts!
How do we improve the economy? Tax cuts!
How do we end the wars? Tax cuts!
how do we become energy independent? Tax cuts!
Deficit reduction? Tax Cuts!!! (of course ;) )
Cure for cancer? Tax cuts!
What color is the sky today? I don't know, but we're forcasting.............Tax Cuts!!!
We have the lowest tax rates since the beginning of the industrial age....and the highest deficits. Any logical person can see the correlation.
Who is winning the Super Bowl this football season? That's right! Tax cuts.
Thanks, Ted. This will be answer at home now. What's for dinner? Tax Cuts. With A-1 sauce?
i hope that they can work together and get this country back on track
Not a chance as long as "they" are owned. Vote them ALL out.
GOP, quit with the jobs killing no new taxes BS. You've beaten that drum so much even your "regular guy" base doesn't believe it any more.
when even warren buffet says it's time for the super rich to pay higher taxes, it makes these two idiots look even more out of touch with American !!! why is it that all they can do is serve up the same old republican bullsh*t ??? are they that stupid or just that deep in the pockets of corporate American that they can't hear ???
Just that stupid.
You want the truth? You can't handle the truth. But if you can, watch the You Tube of Dylan Ratigan's interview/rant from last week. Here's a Wall Street guy who sees the truth and it ain't pretty.
another line in the sand while they call for NO ACTION and GRIDLOCK, calling it "job creation". WHAT A BUNCH OF EVIL HYPOCRITES.
It would really be nice to see some sincere, honest and responsible bipartisan effort but ... all the Republicans / Tea Party do is talk; constantly yapping while blocking and faulting all efforts and while catering to the few, their strong supporters, and providing nothing but rhetoric to con the majority and manipulate public opinion. In football they call it “trash mouth”, and that is what it is here ... “trash mouth” talking to disguise their neglect and their total focus on their political agenda aimed to benefit only the few, Bush-Cheney style; literally being “puppets” for Special Interests and the influential, powerful and extremely wealthy few, who “pull their strings”. If you think differently, then you have just been intimidated by “trash mouth” talking.
Arguing with ignorance is self defeating. Don't even try. Just go back up this thread and re-read "in the middle TX". Warren Buffett doesn't know a thing about money. He doesn't even understand how his lawyers and CPAs are handling HIS money. Yep, that cinches it, I'll no longer listen to a dang billionaire about producing wealth; I'll just ask his kids and some nitwit from the middle of Texas. It is truly too bad that ignorance is not painful
So, did Grover clear Frick and Frack's Op-Ed?
President Andrew Shepherd: Look, if the people want to listen to-...
Lewis Rothschild: They don't have a choice! Bob Rumson is the only one doing the talking! People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.
President Andrew Shepherd: Lewis, we've had presidents who were beloved, who couldn't find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight. People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference.
Lines from the "American President" boy do they certainly ring true today. Do you really want to play in Rick, Michelle and Mitt's sand box, along with Cantor and Boehner???
Aren't these guys going out to their town hall meeting, they such did when they were trying to stop the health care bill from going through?
True fact: taking corporate tax back to Clinton era is not job killer, Clinton 23 million jobs, Bush 3 million jobs
True Fact: Rising taxes would only affect top 5% not mom and pop businesses
True Fact: We would have more jobs if GOP didn’t vote NO on every jobs bill from 2009-present & Filibuster 95% of all bills, job bills brought to floor of the House of Representatives for 2011 (0)
True Fact: GOP jobs bill record in the 2011 (0)
True Fact: lie again POTUS does not want to raise taxes on all just mega rich so they pay their fair share