These Republicans Need to Communicate Better

[tinselwolverine]

They could vote with the existing Boener plan without making the decision to raise taxes on a single person.

Because the decision was made when the temporary tax cuts were implented; it was always scheduled that they would revert to their previous rates; that reversion has just been postponed a few times.

So I would argue that they technically don't have to vote for a tax increase on anyone.

All the Republicans have to do is decide who they're going to extend tax relief for whomever they decide to do it for, and let they already existing laws go into implementation for the rest.

 

[Michchamp]

but how will they look their Tea Party backers in the eye then?

"You promised taxes wouldn't go up for the rich guys that bankrolled our 'grassroots movement'" they will say.

 

[tinselwolverine]

but how will they look their Tea Party backers in the eye then?

"You promised taxes wouldn't go up for the rich guys that bankrolled our 'grassroots movement'" they will say.

That's how. Just tell them "we didn't vote to raise taxes on anyone; they were going to raise anyway."

When Arriana Huffington charters a private jet to some environmentalist/conservation, that's what she does; she says "if it hadn't been me, someone else would have chartered that jet."

 

[Michchamp]

That's how. Just tell them "we didn't vote to raise taxes on anyone; they were going to raise anyway."

When Arriana Huffington charters a private jet to some environmentalist/conservation, that's what she does; she says "if it hadn't been me, someone else would have chartered that jet."

I know. and I'm just kidding about the tea party backers thing. regardless of the sincerity with which they might believe in their cause, most of them are too stupid to realize they aren't really a "grassroots" movement but instead a bunch of useful fools for the rich and powerful to trot out when they need to lend some "popular support" to political campaigns to keep their tax rates historically low, and oppose any further regulations of their businesses that might keep them from making obscene profits at society's expense.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Does Grover Norquist read this board?

Because his rationle in his approval of the now defunct plan B kinda sounds like my idea in the OP.

If so, I deserve a consultancy fee from ATR...

 

[Mitchrapp]

Do you really care if taxes go up for the rich if they don't go down for you and me?

 

[tinselwolverine]

Ha, ha...I just heard a clip of Grover Norquist claiming that, since technically, taxes on everybody went up for one day, January 1, with the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts "we're actually not raising; we're cutting taxes..." regarding the just reached fiscal cliff deal...