House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Wednesday that the expiration built into the Bush tax cuts is a “Republican tax increase” for “working Americans” and the Democrats have “no intention” of allowing it to go into effect.
“We have no intention of allowing the Republican tax increase — that their policies would lead to — to go into effect for working Americans. Period,” he said. “We’re going to act and make sure that the Republican phase out and increase in taxes does not end as they provided for in the laws they passed.”
Hoyer’s press secretary told CNSNews.com in an e-mail that the Democratic Majority Leader was referring to the “middle class” when he said “working Americans.”
Hoyer also said at the press conference, “If we left the Republican policies in place, their [working Americans] taxes would be increased next year. We’re not going to let that happen.”
Hoyer spoke at a “Make It In America” press conference where analysts spoke about ways the federal government could encourage manufacturing in America, particularly for small- and medium-size energy companies.
When asked if allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire could hinder manufacturing in the United States, Hoyer said that raising taxes on upper-income Americans will not hurt the economy.
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2 comments:
To listen to him or any of the idiots who spew this nonsense is mind numbing. How can they say these thing with a straight face and seem so earnest?! And do they actually BELIEVE what they are saying? If they do, then they have, by their own words, exposed themselves as vapid mouthpieces for a failed policy that is obviously falling apart before their very eyes. It's truly Alice-in-Wonderland. Who you gon' believe? Them? Or your lyin' eyes?
Why do people continue to vote for these BS artists ?
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