Boehner on MTP: Ending Bush Tax Cuts will raise taxes on people we expect to create jobs in America

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Meet the Press transcript for August 8, 2010
Carol Browner, John Boehner, Harold Ford Jr., Mike Pence, Andrea Mitchell, Todd Purdum

(Videotape, last Sunday)

DR. ALAN GREENSPAN: Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

MR. GREGORY: You don't agree with Republican leaders who say tax cuts pay for themselves.

DR. GREENSPAN: They do not.

(End videotape)

MR. GREGORY: Leader Boehner, he puts it right to you.

REP. BOEHNER: The only way we're going to get our economy going again and solve our budget problems is to get the economy moving, get more people back to work where they can care for their own families and begin to expand the tax rolls to bring more revenue to the federal government. And what we have to do is we have to get our arms around the spending spree that's going on in Washington, D.C.
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MR. GREGORY: But Leader Boehner...

REP. BOEHNER: That's the only way we solve the budget problems.

MR. GREGORY: ...I'm sorry, you're--that--you're not, you're not being responsive to a specific point, which is how can you be for cutting the deficit and also cutting taxes, as well, when they're not paid for?

REP. BOEHNER: Listen, you can't raise taxes in the middle of a weak economy without risking the double-dip in this recession. President Obama's favorite Republican economist, Mark Zandi, came out several weeks ago and made it clear that raising taxes at this point in, in the economy is a very bad idea.

MR. GREGORY: But do you agree that tax cuts cannot be paid for...

REP. BOEHNER: You cannot balance the budget without a...

MR. GREGORY: But tax cuts are not paid for, is that correct?



REP. BOEHNER: I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

MR. GREGORY: That's not the question, Leader Boehner. The question...



REP. BOEHNER: And the people that the president wants to tax...

MR. GREGORY: ...is, are tax cuts paid for or not?



REP. BOEHNER: Listen, what you're trying to do is get into this Washington game and their funny accounting over there. You cannot get the economy going again by raising taxes on those people who we expect to create jobs in America and to get the economy going again. If we want to solve the budget problem, we've got to have a healthy economy and we have to get our arms around the runaway spending that's going on in Washington, D.C.

MR. GREGORY: I just want to clarify this. I mean, if you--I'm relying on what Chairman Greenspan said. Maybe--if you're accusing him of funny Washington games. He says that tax cuts that aren't paid for are not--they are not cutting the deficit, that they are not actually paid for, it's borrowed money. And so do you believe tax cuts pay for themselves or not?



REP. BOEHNER: I do believe that we've got to get more money in the hands of small businesses and American families to get our economy going again, and the only way to get that economy going again is to do that and to get our arms around the spending.

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[Vinca]

1. Where are the jobs they must have created with their tax cuts

over the past 10 years? They're in China. Fuck Boehner.

[shanti]

10. exactly

screw him and all his billionaire friends!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

29. Did Gregory ask him THAT????

I'll concede that I would definitely support tax cuts for businesses whom are actually creating jobs HERE in America for people who want them but there is almost no proof that has been put forward thus far by Boehner, et. al that Bush's tax cuts have been creating jobs here and if they have, I'd like Boehner, et. al to explain exactly where they are. A scant two years ago, Bush told us that we were teetering on the edge of a national economic disaster almost comparable to the Great Depression. Things haven't improved dramatically over the past two years either and the Bush tax cuts have been fully in effect the whole time. Where are the jobs that these tax cuts are supposedly creating???? That's the question that EVERY single "journalist" (if there any real ones left), cable news pundits, and, especially President Obama and the Democrats need to be shouting at the Republicans. WHERE ARE THE JOBS THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED HERE IN THIS COUNTRY WITH THE BUSH TAX CUTS??? Until somebody can draw a direct line between the Bush tax cuts and business job creation, I will NEVER support continuing them. :mad:

[Bitwit1234]

2. So tell us this Bonehead

these people have had these tax cuts for eight years. WHERE ARE THE JOBS THEY CREATED? What a joke. And Bonehead expects us to believe this BS.

[JHB]

3. If they paid people more (and paid more people)...

...they'd have less money as personal income anyway. So really, there's no reason not to let the tax cuts expire.

[tridim]

4. Was it just my TV or was he even more orange than usual this morning?

I'm starting to think it might be makeup, to cover his bloodshot cheeks.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. In the photo MSNBC ran with the transcript, he was looking "extra orange."

[spanone]

6. if that's true mr boner, where are all the bu$h* tax cut jobs?

it's total, utter bullshit

[deminks]

7. While we are waiting for jobs to trickle down the rich peoples' legs

we who have no jobs and therefore pay no taxes either, and have no unemployment benefits because we are lazy, and have no healthcare cause that ran out too (aren't there free clinics you say?), and are homeless cause we made bad loans to the banksters who said it would be ok (aren't there poor houses, debtors prisons?), we 38 million Americans who go to bed hungry, we humbly await the Republican plan...waiting...waiting...waiting...

[EC]

8. Oh, and they've done so well so far...

I just realized that he tears up all the time...my old boss had eyes like that...it was caused from an eye lift, the tear duct was stretched or something causing his eye to always water....

[lpbk2713]

9. Those poor Halliburton and Blackwater (Xe) People.

It's a shame to see so many of them without work.


:sarcasm:

[Ikonoklast]

11. Crocodile Tears for 'Small Business'!!

Fuck that asshole, every goddamn fucking time I hear a fucking Republican sobbing about how much he 'loves small business', and how much they are trying to help us, they turn right around and fuck us all so hard we can't see straight!


The truth is the Republican Party is beholden to their corporate masters, and steps on the neck of small businesses every goddamn chance they get, using the force of government to squash competition for the largest corporations.


Let's say, for instance if GE suddenly decided that I was a threat to them in any way because I was too good a competitor in any secror of business that they dominate, Boner and his for-sale to the highest bidder associates would find a way to pass legislation to help run me out of business.

Fuck him, and anyone that makes any squeaking noises about 'helping small business'!

[w4rma]

15. +1000. nt

[BlueIdaho]

12. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting diffent results.

If this trickle down nonsense worked, we'd be awash in jobs right now. Confronting republicans on their absurd magical thinking and forcing them to take specific economic stands is critical this year.

[asjr]

13. I don't watch MTP anymore because

of David Gregory, but it sounds as if even David has had enough of the fairy tales of Boehner.

[Vickers]

14. I'll take that chance, Boner. n/t

[Turbineguy]

16. We must keep the tax cuts for the wealthy

Otherwise the banks in the Cayman Islands might feel a pinch.

[malaise]

17. But while they are enjoying the tax cuts

they don't have to hire anyone because the environment just isn't right.

[Enrique]

18. I "expect" them to create jobs if there's demand for their products

and I expect them to create jobs in America if they can't find cheaper labor overseas.

It has nothing to do with these tax cuts.

[bobburgster]

19. He is the epitome of everything I despise in a politician.

What a flaming A--hole!

Glad Gregory held him to the fire. Boehner won't change, hell keep repeating the mantra, "I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy." The sad thing is 40% of this country will believe him...no questions asked.

[DailyGrind51]

20. Because they have been creating so many WITH the tax cuts? It's only 4%!

[Monique1]

22. Thanks, you all said what I wanted to say

[OHdem10]

21. The jobs created by this Group were in China, Tehran, Asia, India

anywhere the Multinationals could find cheap workers.
These most high incomers are the Outsourcers. When
is someone to remind the Republicans of this.

[AnArmyVeteran]

23. Gregory is a DUFUS!!!

When the Rep Boner said the tax cuts would create new jobs why didn't Gregory say "only 1 million jobs were created in 8 years under Bush's 8 years of tax cuts so why are you lying to the people?".

Gregory is so inept.

[Cass]

24. And the hypocrisy of the republican party shines through like a frigging 1000 watt beacon.

Gregory did good here.

[aquart]

25. We expected that the last time, but they didn't.

[HughBeaumont]

26. Bob'n'WEAVE! Duck and COVER! Promenade round and do-si-do!

NEVER an explanation HOW their ridiculous Trickle-On Bullshit will work. You just GOTTA HAVE FAITH that it will! Otherwise, the wealthy won't be infintely MORE wealthy than they already ARE!! And we can't have THAT now, can we?

Note that this crying shitbag is NOT representative of all Ohioans. Only SOME of them.

[Wilms]

27. Ha. n/t

[indepat]

28. We all know in our hearts that job creation is what the fine congress-critter is all about: that and

a living wage and access to health care for all Americans, right Congressman? :rofl:

[newspeak]

30. false, bonehead

If cutting taxes on the wealthy created jobs, Little Boots wouldn't have one of the WORSE JOB CREATION RECORDS. Come on orangeman, explain it.