GOP proposes renewing tax cuts, freezing spending

[babylonsister]

This is their economic alternative??

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_bi_ge/us_republicans_economy

GOP proposes renewing tax cuts, freezing spending
AP
– 2 hrs 46 mins ago


WASHINGTON – House Republican Leader John Boehner on Wednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy.

In a broadcast interview, the Ohio Republican said he was offering a "bipartisan" alternative to the package of business tax incentives and infrastructure spending that President Barack Obama was slated to announce later Wednesday in Cleveland.

Obama has charged that the GOP criticizes him harshly, without offering any policy alternatives. Boehner touted his freeze-and-cut roadmap to recovery as an option instead of a catchall spending bill that Congress would pass later this fall.

Boehner said the biggest problem with the economy currently is the "uncertainty facing small businesses" that have been reluctant to engage in significant new hiring.

Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," Boehner said the American people are asking, "Where are the jobs?" and that the Obama White House is "out of touch" with voters. But he also said that "I'm open to the president's ideas."

[LiberalFighter]

1. IMO it doesn't do any good to help businesses for the most part.

Especially, when wages have been going downhill and jobs have been going out of the country and execs have been paid more than they are worth.

[n2doc]

2. I wonder if he supports cutting military spending to 2008 levels?

Bet not.

[babylonsister]

3. I'm sure not. Now that you mention it, they never even

breathe the words 'defense' or 'military spending'.

[rasputin1952]

8. If they did...

they know they'd be crushed under their own hypocrisy. They are hoping to God no one brings it up.

[bigdarryl]

4. Sounds like a play book out of Governor Christy's campaign Rhetoric

freeze spending was all he talked about before being elected and you know what that means more Government job lost

[Bitwit1234]

5. I could be a good good republican because all I would

have to say is TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY,. And while you are at it add those same old tax cuts for corporations. Wouldn't that make us all good republicans. That's all you have to know...tax cuts tax cuts tax cuts. Then the little people would have to pay to run the country and get NONE OF THE BENEFITS.

[Ikonoklast]

6. More crocodile tears from Boner for 'small businesses'.

He and his fellow Republicant co-conspirators always trot out the 'small business' bullshit, but, as a small businessman myself, wonder why the Republicans fucked me over every chance they got.

The Republicants use government to stomp on small businesses for their Chamber of Commerce masters.

[rasputin1952]

7. He's an idiot...

if he really wanted to save money, he'd be getting out people out of the Middle East.

And let the tax cuts expire to help replenish the Treasury he helped so happily to loot.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. Lather. Rinse. Repeat

This has been their standard "advice" for the past thirty years.