AFL-CIO: Tax Cut Deal “Unconscionable” – Obama Says It Keeps Rent And Food Money Flowing to 2 Mill

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=1323477

12/7/2010

By Doug Cunningham

Unconscionable. That’s the AFL-CIO reaction to the tax cut compromise deal the Obama administration has cut with Republicans. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says the tax cut deal that extends tax cuts for the wealthy rewards Republican obstructionism and throws away precious resources badly needed for investments in jobs. Trumka says more estate tax breaks for the rich in this deal gives yet another bonus to the super-rich and Republicans had the gall to use the hardships of unemployed workers as leverage to benefit the rich. The AFL-CIO says the benefits for jobless workers and the middle class included in this tax cut deal come at too high a price. In a press conference Tuesday President Obama defended his tax cut compromise that extends Bush tax cuts to the rich for two more year. He said standing and fighting over tax cuts to the rich would have hurt millions of jobless and middle class workers.

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1. From Wage Slave Rebel:

“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.”

Leo Tolstoy