Billionaire Astroturf Group Claims Tea Partiers Voted To Give Billionaires Tax Cuts

[Joanne98]

Americans for Prosperity, the Astroturf group run by pollution billionaire David Koch, claims that voters rejected “tax-the-rich ideas” in the midterm elections. On NovemberSpeaks.com — a website launched the day after the election — AFP rallies its supporters to oppose any action by Congress during the lame-duck session that begins November 15, while Democrats still control the House of Representatives. Not only does AFP falsely claim that Democrats intend to pass “enormous Social Security tax hikes,” it also makes the absurd claim that the midterm elections were driven by popular support for the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires:

1. These are the first votes of the 2012 cycle and public anger is not going away.
2. You have no right to raise taxes on any American while the economy remains weak and after class-warfare, tax-the-rich ideas were decisively rejected in a national election.
3. It’s wrong to cheat the American people by voting to fund ObamaCare before a new Congress elected not to fund it can be seated.

In fact, voters from Wisconsin to New York, from California to Indiana, were overwhelmingly concerned about the state of the economy, much as they have been since 2008. They are worried because of the millions of people who lost jobs and homes during the Bush recession — not because David Koch, a 70-year-old with a net worth of twenty thousand million dollars, might see his taxes return to levels during the Clinton era. They believe that Congress isn’t doing enough to fix the economy — not that that Congress needs more vacations

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/08/afp-lame-duck/

[fascisthunter]

1. of course the tea baggers worked for the billionaires agenda

they are all sucker dumb dumbs

[DCKit]

2. "It was a mandate".

Boy, I'm getting awfully tired of hearing that, even when it's only implied.

[formercia]

3. The economy may be weak but taxes are for people who make money

like the Koch brothers. Don't they have enough money already? If only Charles Dickens were alive today.

They make Scrooge look like a saint. There ought to be a special tax passed just for them. The asshole tax.

[glinda]

4. Treason have have a new definition to include intentional misleading of the public

using the public's dollars and by large Corpses via media hoarding.

[unblock]

5. nonsense, the vote was a clear mandate to make unblock's income entirely tax-free!

the election clearly means the voters agree with me 100 gazillion percent and want ME to be president!

there should be a very narrow income bracket which contains exactly MY income. anyone else pays normal income taxes, but if you make EXACTLY the same income as me, you pay zero income taxes! woohoo!




yeah, it's pretty disgusting to see billionaires touting tax cuts for themselves.
exercise so civic responsibility and help the community that gave you your ridiculous wealth in the first place.