Could The Senate Strip Out The Tax Cuts From The Stimulus Bill?

stopbush

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:16 PM
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Could The Senate Strip Out The Tax Cuts From The Stimulus Bill?

Why not strip all the tax cuts the Rs got in the House version, put the $ back in for family planning etc, so when the bill went to conference it would be more like what the Ds wanted in the first place?

The Ds could then deliver the bill to Obama that he wanted to begin with.

Anybody know the ins and outs of this process?

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Nickster

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:17 PM
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1. I believe if they did, it would go back to the House to be voted on again.

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ThomWV

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:23 PM
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6. Fine, strip all that shit out in Conference and then let them vote in both houses

and let the Republicans in the Senate kill it.

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David Dunham

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:18 PM
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2. Obama campaigned FOR the tax cuts.

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cali

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:18 PM
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3. huh? Obama wanted the tax cuts.

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WI_DEM

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:21 PM
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4. No, Obama promised tax cuts and he is delivering, even though I don't see how it will help

stimulate the economy since the average tax cut will be a payroll deduction of about $13 per pay period. Who will really notice?

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Veritas_et_Aequitas

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:23 PM
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5. Maybe if we all coordinate and spend our $13 at once we could goose the economy.

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DS1

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:26 PM
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9. I would

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Political Heretic

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:23 PM
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7. Yeah Obama wanted the tax cuts, though I believe he is wrong on their effectiveness

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Warpy

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:25 PM
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8. They could but they won't.

It's the only part of it that is palatable to the GOP and might get it past a filibuster.

The committees can strip anything they want out of a bill to pass it, but then the House has to re pass it.

I wish they would put the family planning back in. It's not like they're going to get a single GOP vote in the House, no matter what they do.

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Still Sensible

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:26 PM
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10. I wish people would stop calling them tax cuts, only

because it makes people think they are like the Bush tax cuts. They are not. The broadest tax relief in this stimulus is strictly through the payroll tax (and corresponding rate adjustments) and that is one of the few ways we can ensure that the working poor and middle class actually get some of this immediately. Under the Bush tax cuts, the working poor got NOTHING and much of the middle class got nothing or next to nothing... this is what the President told the repubs the other day that he would not compromise on this.

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endarkenment

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Thu Jan-29-09 03:44 PM
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11. Yes but they won't.

The Republicans have far more power in the Senate than they do in the house.

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