Chris Van Hollen (D-MD): "Hey, let’s just do one year for the top 2 percent"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Van Hollen Would Consider Tax Cuts for Wealthy for Another Year
By Laura Litvan -

U.S. House Democrat Chris Van Hollen said he would consider extending Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier Americans for a year if Republicans would agree to make the reductions permanent for “middle class” taxpayers.

Republicans, including House Minority Leader John Boehner, have insisted that the tax cuts should be extended for all Americans for two years. Taxes are expected to dominate the agenda when Congress returns next week.

“If they were to come back and say, ‘hey, let’s just do one year for the top 2 percent, and permanent for the middle class,’ that would be something that obviously people would have to think about,” Van Hollen said in an interview on “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend on Bloomberg Television.

He said he was speaking “individually” and not on behalf of Democratic leaders.

Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, predicted his party “will hold onto a majority in the House” even in the face of polling that shows Republicans are poised to retake control.

“I think a lot of the doom and gloom you hear in the national media is not playing out in each of these local districts,” Van Hollen said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-10/van-hollen-would-consider-one-year-extension-of-bush-tax-cuts-for-wealthy.html

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. The man is a twit. n/m

[doc03]

2. That's what the Republicans would like a tax increase

in the Presidential an election year.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Keep the 33% bracket for those making over $250,000

Put a 43% bracket for those making over $500,000.

[handmade34]

4. idiota n/t

[HughBeaumont]

5. "One year" . . . "weeellllll . . . changed my mind. Why not make it .. .ssay . ..TWO years?"

"How about FIVE?"

"Twist my arm, GIVE' EM TEN, and a round of handjobs?"

"DONE!"

Jump, little doggie, JUMP!! "Pant, Pant!!! How High, my master?"

With "Dems" like these, who needs enemas?

[bluestateguy]

6. They'll never go away if you fall into that trap

Unfortuantely, there is always a next election. It's always either an election year or a year before an election year.

No time for spell check.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. Democrats are the slaves of the republicans and the rich

He just said it

[spartan61]

8. Why, Chris, why?

They just had 10 years and now they want more??? Ummmm, I don't think so.

[jobycom]

9. Let's not, and say we did.

You know, like the Republicans on most issues.

[ShadowLiberal]

10. That's just what the GOP wants, another year to use this as an election issue

As fiscally irresponsible as the GOP are, one of the reason they didn't make the tax cuts permanent was so they could make it an issue years later to get votes without actually lowering taxes. They also made them not permanent just to get better CBO numbers farther down the line that used the Clinton tax rates after the Bush tax cuts expired.

[kentuck]

11. So the Repubs can run against your huge deficits?

Which they will do... because you are stupid. Good job, fella.

[midnight]

12. Oops. Sounds like this man is too comfortable to understand

that in order to extend that entitlement to the top two percenters, many poor people will have to sacrifice at a time when they have already been doing so for the last ten years. Time to share the burden.

[bernynhel]

13. Additonal bending over details may be on the table.

Will consider two years contingent upon reach around agreement.

[Ramulux]

14. Does he think publically rebuking the president

is a smart political strategy? So coming up on the elections you want to fold on the biggest winning issue democrats have? The vast majority want these cuts ended, democrats are on the right side of this issue, but Van Hollen wants to literally give up on it by agreeing with republicans. This guy is incompetent.

[Wounded Bear]

15. Not just no, Hell NO!!!

What is this DINO smoking?!?!

[bullwinkle428]

16. Cenk nailed his DINO ass for exactly what it is on the whole

Social Security Commission thing a few weeks back!

[Historic NY]

17. With dick weed's like him who needs Repukes.

[Lugnut]

18. Let's not. n/t

[Odin2005]

19. This fucker needs to be rode out of town on a rail.

[laughingliberal]

20. ...

&*^%

[aquart]

21. Because the rich are in such desperate need.

[WinkyDink]

22. These are the words of a wealthy man.