It's Unanimous! GOP Says No To Unemployment Benefits, Yes To Tax Cuts For The Rich

Can someone ask them about the times Reagan raised taxes?

We can offset these taxcuts to the rich by taxing unemployed people. After all, you tax things you want to stop and we want to stop them from being unemployed. So, problem solved!

taxes will go up on dividends and on capital gains on a whole lot of people who aren't rich

Nice to see Sen. Cornyn entering the "Find the most woefully out-of-touch Republican" contest. Exactly how many "not-rich" people really suffer from capital gains taxes, versus how many only invest via tax-sheltered vehicles like IRAs and 401ks? Or is he just worrying about his "not-rich" friends at the country club who only bring home a million a year?

If the GOP continues this class warfare and the dems fail to go for the nuclear option, anarchy can be far behind! Add another 200,000 who will lose benfits this week.

Crime, domestic violence. child abuse and neglect. forclosues alcohol and drug abuse increase with this clear and demenstrated destuction of the middle class!

The GOP thinks at elections they are going to say that they saved the US money. The people who didnt get unemployment arnt going to see it that way

I would like to propose a few things:

First, if anybody gets evicted, let’s start taking over the Senator’s offices….use them to sleep in, send faxes, use the phones and their computers to find work.

Second, when we do find work, claim 99 exemptions. I REFUSE to pay any more taxes!! Remember the old saying ‘No taxation without representation’?? Well, it is VERY obvious that Americans have no representation!! “Taxation without representation is TYRANNY!!”

Third, if this bill does not pass, let’s make sure that this election is one that NO SENATOR will EVER FORGET!!,

Everybody get your guns ready….and VOTE THEIR ASSES OUT OF OFFICE!!!

We can afford to GIVE Pakistan $7.5 BILLION to arm and train Taliban to kill AMERICAN soldiers…..we can afford to GIVE Egypt $7 Billion, we can afford to GIVE Haitian earthquake victims over $2 BILLION dollars, we can afford to GIVE $30 MILLION to Palestinian refugees…
We CAN AFFORD to keep the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent of the country.
We CAN AFFORD to bail out Wall Street and buy GM.
But we CAN’T AFFORD to take care of middle class AMERICANS who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own???

And this is being decided by people that ‘We the People’ are paying!!!
‘We the People’ are ALLOWING these people to GIVE our tax dollars away to others, but they won’t help us??? With OUR OWN MONEY????

I am absolutely ASHAMED of the Senators and to be called an American!!!
And Senators…..you should be ASHAMED of YOURSELVES!!!

“RECKLESS SPENDING”THE SENATOR CALLS IT LOL!YOU PIECE OF TRASH!YOU SIT IN THE SENATE SEAT AND GET PAID 100K A YEAR PLUS ALL THE KICKBACKS AND THE MONEY YOU STEAL WHILE YOUR IN OFFICE NOT TO MENTION YOUR RETIREMENT PAID BY THE TAX PAYERS FOR THE REST OF YOUR WORTHLESS LIFE AND YOU CALL AN UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSION FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED MOSTLY DUE TO NO FAULT OF THIER OWN”RECKLESS SPENDING”WOW,YOU MUST FEEL LIKE A BIG MAN BY DENYING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THE MONEY THEY NEED TO BUY FOOD,PAY RENT,KEEP THE ELECTRICITY AND PHONE ON YOU ARE A REAL BIG MAN!YOUR A SCUMBAG JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE ONES WHO ONCE AGAIN VOTED NO BUT YOUR TIME IS COMING.YOU ARE YOUR OWN KINGS AND THIS IS THE HELL YOU HAVE CREATED FOR YOURSELFS.

Whoever said the Old Testament prophets were antiquated and irrelevant, are likely focused on the wrong profit.
Amos 8:
'Hear this YOU that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, saying, "When will the new moon be oer that we may sell grain and the sabbath so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances, buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat."
this is directed at nobody but those supposed persons of faith who somehow seem to feel that The Lord God endorses your version of the prosperity gospel - your version of the trickle down economics - and somehow justify yourselves in such thought.
Wake up and read the book you claim to put your faith in - and see what God truly values, see where God consistently stands - see the poor, the needy: not as an afterthought, or even as a secondary gain , but as a primary concern to be attentive to - first and foremost.
Folks, get your heads out of the profit margins and listen to the prophet on the margins.

If tax cuts actually resulted in an increase in revenue, this country would not have had record deficits immediately following the Reagan tax cuts, and then again immediately following the Bush II tax cuts, while having a budget surplus following the modest tax increases in effect during the Clinton administration.

Even Bush I understood that cutting taxes without similar cuts in spending would result in deficits. That's why, during the primaries, he labeled Reagan's insistence that cutting taxes would increase revenues as "voodoo economics."

"I really can't think "

That said it all.

"... there's no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue. They increased revenue, because of the vibrancy of these tax cuts in the economy."

Prove it. Show us exactly how it did that. Otherwise, the statement is no more valid than mine if I were to say "The sun came up today because of the vibrancy of my personality, my stunning good looks, and my superior intellect."

Tax 'Cuts' how do you 'cut' from zero Senator Kyl? Exxon made $14 Billion in 'declared' profit last year and paid...wait for it...

....$0 in Federal Corporate Income taxes. So, yes it's all working out quite well for Corporate Slave State America and I've just got one question for folk here....

...What do you intend to do about it?

And I don't mean bloviate on this site. Nor do I mean 'vote'. There is an answer but you have to be a Citizen not a Subject.

It's called: 'A General Strike'. Educate yourself on what that is and how it can happen. In the age of Facebook and Twitter it could happen a lot sooner than fascist scum like Kyl might imagine.

well its not surprising coming from the party that wasted billions a year on a false war. The only more efficient money wasting scheme is to drop piles of money in Iraq and then set fire to them. Its obvious they don't have a clue about what they are doing and who they are supposed to work for.

Keep in mind that Bush & Cheney proved that the GOP never met a tax cut it didn't like REGARDLESS of the circumstances, e.g. surplus, deficit, war, recession, environmental catastrophe, large scale corporate tax fraud, etc.

It continually blows my mind that the Republicans still have so much support after half-a-decade of complete and utter failure while controlling ALL three branches of government! What possible excuse could they have that still allows people to give them the benefit of the doubt? And don't say 9/11, since they've already admitted that it was the best thing that ever happened to them.

I hope someone (ahem) can keep front and center the message that Repubs don't care about deficits, they care about rich people pocketing government money that would other wise go to pay off debt, fund stimulus, health care, education, and more. And I know darn well what I'm saying - with tax cuts they are taking our money and giving it to people who are paying our senators to take it from us. That's what it is.

Interesting to hear the Chicken Hawk Tom Coburn weigh in. He's the poster child for the fiscal conservative- a medical doctor voting to send other people's kids off to war, and then voting against a bill to improve health care for returning service people.

There is nothing hypocritical or inconsistent about this. Republicans believe that the government exists to kill people and to transfer resources to the wealthy. Anything that does not contribute to either of these things is a waste.

The ideological vomit discussed in this article is a predictable result of that starting point. Tax cuts are good because they primarily benefit the wealthy, allowing them to keep more of the resources they extract from everybody else. Unemployment benefits are evil, because they transfer resources to the poor and unlucky. This is the Republican party. This is what they believe in. This what they stand for. Why even feign shock at hearing them state it explicitly?

As for the voters and what they will do in November, they will probably reward the Republicans for helping to slow the economy. The voters have no clue how the economy works, or how the government works. They think that Obama should have waved his magic Staff of Preidentialness and fixed everything. He didn't, and he's a Democrat, so obviously we need to get rid of the Democrats. You can't beat stupid.

Compassionate conservatism is dead.

With extended unemployment benefits, we're paying 10 million people to send out endless resumes and go on endless interviews for the same 1/2 a million jobs they're not going to getg. We're paying people to bang their heads against a wall. At the same time, cities and counties and states are cutting services because "oh we don't have the money, we can't afford enough staff to do that."

How hard is it to see a way to put those two problems together? How hard would it be to think of useful things those 10 million people could be doing for their $300 a week, at least for a year or two until the private sector picks up again?

Wouldn't it be great if public libraries were open 18 hours a day 7 days a week? Or if all those failing 2nd graders had tutoring all summer? Surely all those unemployed mortgage brokers have the reading and math skills to be capable of such work. All those unemployed construction workers have a proven capacity to do hard physical labor outdoors in all weather, so send a couple hundred thousand of them into the canyons to remove the brush that's going to be such a problem next time the santa anas kick up. Foreclosed homes need yard maintenance, city parks & recreation departments would offer a lot more activities if they had a lot more staff, etc etc etc. I hear rumors there's 30,000 people working on cleaning up the gulf, but with 1000 miles of coastline and all that open water that doesn't seem like very many. How about another half a million, we can bus them in and house them four to a room in all those hotels that can't get tourists this year.

Nobody would *need* extended unemployment benefits if we would use that exact same money to hire them to DO something. And even those who grumble that it's a low-paid crap job will still be grateful not to have a gaping hole in their resume.

Let's see those idiots get the low paying jobs and see how they can keep a roof over their heads, feed and clothed their family as well as themselves.

I just have to ask, is there any intelligent life in the teabagging/gop?

What a group of idiots! They created this problem and have the nerve to blame us for the mess they made.

I failed to mention that their idea was tried back in the late 1920's and it caused the Great Depression. What makes them think it will turn out any better now?

You do know what they call people who keep trying to do the same failing things over and over again with the same results don't you?

Idiots.

Why don't you go after Obama and the Democrats for not pushing illegals out of 7 Million much-needed jobs???????????????

Additional unemployment wouldn't be needed if they would stop "allowing" illegals to work our jobs!!

Who are all you people? Almost everything you all say is non-productive. The problems with our economy is something NONE of you are even mentioning. Either you're all stupid, or you're all a bunch of liars. Some of each?

Who do you want to extend benefits for, those who run out now, six months ago, a year ago, 18 months ago, two years ago? How about we go further in debt and just borrow more to pay everyone?!

Let's stop with the bullshit and get off the Federal Reserve system. Pressure your government to lose the international banking cartel from our monetary supply system.

Wake the F#&$ up! You thought the housing bubble was a big burst, wait until the bailout bubble pops!