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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"House GOP approves more tax breaks without paying for them"
House GOP approves more tax breaks without paying for themBy Steve Benen at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/house-gop-approves-more-tax-breaks-without-paying-them
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At this point, congressional Republicans no longer even try to justify the rhetorical contradictions. When Democrats want to make any kind of public investment, even after a natural disaster, GOP officials insist every penny must be fully paid for without raising anyones taxes by any amount at any time.
But when those same Republican lawmakers want to cut taxes, they magically discover that the deficit isnt so important after all.
The House on Thursday passed two bills to permanently extend tax credits that expired at the end of 2013 despite veto threats from the Obama administration.
The more expensive of the two tax measures the House passed, 272-144, extends a provision known as Section 179 that allows small businesses to write off up to $500,000 worth of investments a year. [ ]
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"House GOP approves more tax breaks without paying for them" (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2014
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elleng
(130,858 posts)1. Time for Democrats to start YELLING about this!
Let's see what the t-buggers think about it.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)2. if they didn't bother yelling about senseless war
why would they bother with taxes?
WhiteTara
(29,699 posts)3. Basta*ds. nt
Cha
(297,091 posts)4. Another reason to vote the a$$holes out in 2014. thanks apple~
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Will the Senate approve them? Will the President sign them?
Triana
(22,666 posts)6. Posted a few days ago here. Sunk like a rock!
Maybe we're out of outrage - but this is outrageous. Of course no other media discusses the matter. Should be front page news.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025090385
Orsino
(37,428 posts)7. And the accompanying photo invokes the debt instead of the deficit.
Doing the Republicans' work.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)8. The usual gang of hypocrites.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)9. They'll pay for them
They'll cut social services