Dan Burton On Tax Cuts: GOP Would Swallow Democratic Tax Plan After December
If a fiscal cliff deal isn't struck by the end of the year, President Barack Obama will be in such a strong bargaining position that Republicans will be forced to accept the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts for income above $250,000, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), an arch conservative, predicted Thursday.
In fact, the prospect of broader tax hikes motivated Rep. Jeff Flake, soon to be the junior Republican senator from Arizona, to say that he'd accept the $250,000 limit today.
"That's an easy one for me, because you're lowering taxes that would otherwise be going up," Flake told reporters of the hypothetical $250,000 limit preferred by Democrats.
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He will be in a far better position as long has he plays the repubicons deflect and run game until Jan. 2.
Then he gets what he wants... at the $250K mark... no conceding necessary.
He needs to be obstinant and dogmatic for just a few days...
The republicons need to have their game thrown back at them hard and often.
They are the minority party... they need to FEEL IT... and for a long time.
They need to be irrelevant and left out. MAKE them feel the countrys' will.
