Dems want GOP to list $700B in cuts to pay for high-end tax relief

[cal04]

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/117183-dems-want-gop-to-say-name-700b-in-cuts-to-pay-for-high-end-tax-cuts

Democrats pounced Friday on a top Republican's suggestion he knew of plenty of spending to cut in order to pay for the extension of high-end tax cuts.

If Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) thinks he can identify $700 billion in cuts to offset the costs of extending Bush tax cuts, Democrats said, he should specify where.

“If veterans are going to have to give up their benefits to pay for the Republican leadership’s tax breaks for the richest 2 percent of Americans, then they deserve to know that immediately," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) spokesman Ryan Rudominer said.

The Democratic attack reflects the larger gambit over taxes both parties believe they face in the fall's elections. Republicans think running on an extension of all the tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of the year barring congressional action, makes for good politics. Democrats, by contrast, believe running against the high-end tax breaks — and against the kind of steep cuts that Ryan's plan would involve — are just as good a message.

[onethatcares]

1. ooohhh, this could be interesting.

maybe boner can list some too, along with mitchthebitch.(yeah I know that was rude, but so what?)

[The_Commonist]

2. How about most of the defense budget?

That would really fuck with their heads!

[Count Olaf]

3. okay- cut the department of homeland security

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9068327&mesg_id=9068327



BUT no tax cuts for you you freaking greedy bastards. You didn't create jobs with the money before so it ain't working and we aren't buying the BS again.

The savings can be used for job creation, refurbishing homes for the millions of homeless people the greedy bastards have already created.

[howaboutme]

4. Democrats in Congress could pounce on many things

This is good. Tax cuts sound good, spending cuts sound bad....to any politician.

But the reality is that Democrats could pounce on other things with entitlements for billionaire pro sports owners, corporations, and Israel and Egypt being strong candidates and Republican efforts to privatize social security for Wall Street. http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/206740/saving-social-security----and-democratic-seats

Honestly I'm beginning to wonder if we are seeing good cop bad cop instead of two parties at opposite ends of the issues. Big money buys power and two Parties.

[MadMaddie]

5. To answer that question it would take real analysis and

the Republicans are incapable of this task.

The Dems have to keep pushing the Repugs to prove their lies. ha..ha..the Repugs will never come through....

[gratuitous]

6. Dearie me - How partisan and unsensible!

Sensible Democrats know that when Republicans talk tax cuts for their wealthy pals, the right thing to do is nod and agree that taxes are too high. Especially taxes on the wealthiest Americans, who provide us with so many good-paying jobs that nobody can find.

I'm confident that someone will be along soon to explain why asking for spending cuts to pay for more Treasury dollars stuffed into the pockets of the likes of Paris Hilton is a losing strategy, and we just don't understand 12-level Romulan Chess in five-dimension Vulcan space, and we're not getting a goddam pony.

[applegrove]

7. YES! and the Democrats take the fight to the GOP finally. Gop has been pussyfooting

around this issue for months.

[HughMoran]

8. Bout fucking time.