MORE GOP BUDGET HYPOCRISY - Extend Bush Taxs cuts for wealthy no matter the deficit

[eastbaygordo]

Jon Kyl just said the republicans support extending the tax cuts for their base no matter if it adds to the deficit yet they oppose middle class help on unemployment for budget busting reasons, and call us lazy drug addicts to boot.
Thanks Republicans, we need all the help we can get in November and talk and actions like these will point out to Middle America who your masters are.

Jon Kyl: Extend Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Even If They Add To Deficit


Cutting to the meat:

For the past few months, congressional Republicans have demanded that any additional spending be offset by budget cuts or revenue increases elsewhere. Also on Sunday, White House senior adviser David Axelrod blamed deficit concerns for the difficulty in finding a 60th vote in the Senate for unemployment benefits even though, as of Friday, 2.1 million people have not received checks that they were expecting in June.

And yet, Kyl is now suggesting that the same budget rules shouldn't apply with respect to tax cuts for the wealthy, which are set to expire unless Congress acts to renew them. As Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly notes:

It's quite a message to Americans: Republicans believe $30 billion for unemployment benefits don't even deserve a vote because the money would be added to the deficit, but Republicans also believe that adding the cost of $678 billion in tax cuts for the wealthy to the deficit is just fine.
Kyl is one of the most prominent members of Congress to advance the argument that jobless benefits make people not want to look for work, a position disputed by economists across the political spectrum. Unemployment insurance "doesn't create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work," Kyl said last March on the Senate floor.

eastbaygordo Reviewed by eastbaygordo on 07-12-2010. MORE GOP BUDGET HYPOCRISY - Extend Bush Taxs cuts for wealthy no matter the deficit Jon Kyl just said the republicans support extending the tax cuts for their base no matter if it adds to the deficit yet they oppose middle class help on unemployment for budget busting reasons, and call us lazy drug addicts to boot. Thanks Republicans, we need all the help we can get in November and talk and actions like these will point out to Middle America who your masters are. Jon Kyl: Extend Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Even If They Add To Deficit Cutting to the meat: For the past Rating: 5

[LegalizeTheGreen]

Where is Islandborn to support his Republican fatcats? Guess we all know there is no defending crooks like these, unless you're a teabagger