Reid: Vote On Bush Tax Cuts Before Election Recess

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Source: Talking Points Memo

Reid: Vote On Bush Tax Cuts Before Election Recess
Brian Beutler | September 14, 2010, 4:12PM


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters today that he plans to move on a tax cut package before Congress adjourns next month ahead of the November elections...but he still doesn't know what that package will call for.

Reid expects a vote on the package "before we leave," leaving Democrats little time to determine whether they'll proceed with President Obama's plan to extend all of the Bush tax cuts, except for those that benefit the wealthiest Americans.

Reid said today that he supports the President's plan, but he's still unsure whether he'll use Obama's template. House leaders, meanwhile, are leaning toward waiting on the Senate to act before they cast any tax cut votes. That leaves one big question unanswered: what happens if the Senate does nothing?


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[doc03]

1. Bookmark this, the rich will keep their taxcuts n/t

[onehandle]

2. It's OBAMA'S or DEMOCRAT'S TAX CUTS! Bush gave them a death sentence.

Just call them our tax cuts, dammit.

We want to give 97% of Americans a permanent tax cut.

[SugarShack]

3. Well said, and simple enough...

there is no money and they keep spending it like water.

[KansDem]

4. Why is a vote necessary in the first place?

Won't the tax cuts expire if nothing is done? :shrug:

[groundloop]

5. Shoddy reporting / poorly framed by our leaders.

Yes, of course taxes go up if nothing is done. As far as me personally, the govt. can have my $60 a year or whatever little bit it was.

The Greedy Obstructionist Party has done a hell of a job of painting the end of this law as a tax hike. Once again the press is eating it up.