Ezra Klein: How the White House Will Sell Angry House Dems on Tax Cut Deal

flpoljunkie

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Fri Dec-10-10 01:41 PM
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Ezra Klein: How the White House Will Sell Angry House Dems on Tax Cut Deal

How the White House will sell angry House Dems on tax cut deal
By Greg Sargent

The White House is privately circulating a new chart among Congressional Democrats -- sent over by a source -- that is designed to prove to Dems that the tax deal Obama got out of Republicans is really a victory for Democrats.

It's a pretty interesting chart -- a sign that the White House is gearing up for a full court press to sell the deal to angry House Dems who are vowing to block it:

Note in particular that the chart stresses: "What Obama and Democrats got." That's an effort to persuade Dems that they can claim a stake in the good aspects of the deal: The extension of unemployment insurance and various tax credits.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/12/how_the_white_house_will_sell.html

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Mass

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Fri Dec-10-10 01:43 PM
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1. How many people are touched by both sides? I think it tells it all.

Edited on Fri Dec-10-10 01:45 PM by Mass

Chart from http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/07/tax-priorities/

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flpoljunkie

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Fri Dec-10-10 01:55 PM
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6. Have posted that myself. Too bad these 4.8 million are who Republicans insist be put first.

It's who they are, it's who they represent! Failed 'trickle down' economics.

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karynnj

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Fri Dec-10-10 02:57 PM
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10. That is a stark difference

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Mass

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Fri Dec-10-10 05:27 PM
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12. Yes, particularly if you get how much in average goes to each individual in both categories,

So, it is difficult to see this proposal as positive.

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Fri Dec-10-10 01:46 PM
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2. The attack on Social Security is the big one hidden in these scenarios...

The "payroll tax holiday" is straight out of the playbook of the Heritage Foundation.

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John Q. Citizen

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Fri Dec-10-10 01:49 PM
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3. Exactly. It's taking Social Security out of it's pay as you go status. It's dangerous. Tha

is chart is misleading, and misdirecting the whole issue.

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flpoljunkie

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Fri Dec-10-10 01:51 PM
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4. The very liberal Robert Reich has been a long time proponent of a payroll tax holiday

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rfranklin

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Fri Dec-10-10 02:52 PM
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9. And he's wrong too...

This is a big, big mistake.

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Fri Dec-10-10 05:30 PM
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13. Yep

"...One of the most underreported parts of this deal is a cut to the Social Security payroll tax. In just one year, over $120 billion of revenue will be cut from Social Security under the President's compromise plan, weakening the program and virtually guaranteeing benefit cuts in the future.

Make no mistake about it. Social Security has not added one dime to the national debt and this cut will only embolden Republican attempts to privatize the program and increase the age of retirement. Social Security is a vital safety net for all Americans and a cornerstone of our commitment to protect the middle class.."

Senator Bernie Sanders

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budkin

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Fri Dec-10-10 01:53 PM
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5. But now the GOP can always say that the Dems are "raising taxes" when this comes up

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emulatorloo

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Fri Dec-10-10 02:08 PM
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7. That article is by Greg Sargent. It isn't by Ezra Klein. Do you still have time to correct

your thread title?

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wiggs

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Fri Dec-10-10 02:16 PM
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8. My understanding from Rachel is that a significant portion of the dems' blue column

is extension of STUFF THAT OBAMA HAD TO PUT INTO THE 2009 STIMULUS PACKAGE TO ENTICE ENOUGH GOPrs (1 or 2?) to vote for cloture!! It was republican wish list then, now it's dem wish list?

Plus, don't forget that all the beneficiaries in the red column also are beneficiaries in the blue column. Is that factored into the charts?

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Tom Rinaldo

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Fri Dec-10-10 05:24 PM
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11. What Republicans get is a surrender by Democrats to their philosophy

Which is that tax cuts are always the cure for whatever ails us, and not government spending on programs that directly provide jobs and rebuild America's infrastructure. It validates the Republican position that government takes too much of our money.

Republicans WANT to starve government. They WANT to shrink it. They want government out of their way so that international corporations have few if any checks on their power. Cut government income, discredit any positive role for government, raise the Federal debt, and then demand that government shrink further because of that debt.

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