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(48,121 posts) Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:03 PM Dec 2012

John Boehner Makes An Offer: Make Tax Rates For Top Group Permanent

John Boehner Makes An Offer: Make Tax Rates For Top Group Permanent

Oh yes, America. Republicans are certainly serious about negotiating in (cough, cough!) good faith. Clearly good faith has a different meaning to them than it does to me, since Boehner's "offer" with regard to making a "deal" on tax rates was to leave them right where they are forever and ever, amen.

Seriously, who calls this a negotiation again? Oh, that's right, the media likes to pretend Republicans are actually behaving in good faith, despite bonehead moves like this, via CNN:

One of the reasons Tuesday night's conversation between President Barack Obama and John Boehner did not go well was because the GOP House speaker sent the White House a fiscal cliff proposal calling for a permanent extension of Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, including for incomes in the top 2%, a Democratic source said Wednesday.

Democrats took the GOP counter offer to mean that tax reform cannot result in any marginal rates higher than current law, according to the source, who said Boehner's proposal was a "sign" to Democrats that "Boehner and the GOP are unwilling or unable to do any sort of deal that can pass the Senate or be signed by the president."

Yes, please. Let's get a little real here, shall we? We just went through 16 months of a Presidential campaign where these rates were the centerpiece of Democrats' platform. And we won. Of course the President will agree to cement the Bush tax cuts in perpetuity. Give me a break.

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John Boehner Makes An Offer: Make Tax Rates For Top Group Permanent (Original Post) The Straight Story Dec 2012 OP

One Congress cannot tie another Congress to such a deal? kentuck Dec 2012 #1

LOL, they can try, can't they? Mariana Dec 2012 #3

I agree with the boner Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #2

those tax cuts are 40% of the deficit. Moaner wants to make the deficit permanent librechik Dec 2012 #4

Would Ds agree to this if capital gains could be taxed at ordinary earned income rates? LonePirate Dec 2012 #5

I have a deal for Boehner... SomethingFishy Dec 2012 #6

... theKed Dec 2012 #7

kentuck

(111,106 posts)

1. One Congress cannot tie another Congress to such a deal?

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:06 PM

Dec 2012

That would not hold water.

Mariana

(14,858 posts)

3. LOL, they can try, can't they?

Reply to kentuck (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:38 PM

Dec 2012

That's exactly the reaction I had all during Bush's time when they would babble about wanting to make the Bush tax rates "permanent". WTF? You'd think in their positions they'd understand how our government works. Idiots.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

2. I agree with the boner

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:11 PM

Dec 2012

top rates should be set at 70% where they were before Raygun

librechik

(30,674 posts)

4. those tax cuts are 40% of the deficit. Moaner wants to make the deficit permanent

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:41 PM

Dec 2012

so the repubs will always have something to whine about.

LonePirate

(13,426 posts)

5. Would Ds agree to this if capital gains could be taxed at ordinary earned income rates?

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:42 PM

Dec 2012

I know this idea would never be offered by either side; but would it be acceptable?

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)

6. I have a deal for Boehner...

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Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:45 PM

Dec 2012

I'll teach him and all his friends how to support a family of 6 on $50,000 a year while still paying their taxes, if he will just SHUT THE FUCK UP.

theKed

(1,235 posts)

7. ...

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:46 PM

Dec 2012

"Ok. Our offer is to extend all the Bush tax cuts."

"No."

"Alright. How 'bout this: we make them permanent?"

"Are you an idiot?"

Boehner doesn't know much about negotiation, does he? I imagine, partly, this will aid them saying they made 'numerous' offers to compromise when the cuts expire, no matter how ridiculous they are.

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