If House Republicans get their way in the federal budget they deemed and passed (remember demon pass?), all but the very rich will have to grab their ankles. The purpose of government is to serve the common good, but for Republicans, only the 1% get served. What happens to the rest of is is obvious.
Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, defended the House Republican budget at a tax policy summit yesterday — as well as the broader idea that taxes on the wealthy need to be cut while taxes on lower-income Americans should be raised. When asked by ThinkProgress’ Scott Keyes to square the GOP’s explicit desire to cut taxes for the rich with the fact that it’s budget would raise taxes on low-income working Americans, Tiberi responded by saying that to do otherwise would be to “beat up on people who are trying to be successful.” He then made the case for raising taxes on the poor by lamenting that they don’t have any “skin in the game”…
…Watch it:
The budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), defended by Tiberi, and passed by the House Republicans, would cut taxes for millionaires by an average of $187,000 in 2014 alone, even if tax expenditures are eliminated to offset the revenue loss. Meanwhile, it would allow tax cuts on low-income Americans, passed in response to the economic collapse, to expire. Families making $30,000 or less would see their after-tax income fall, in some cases by as much as 2 percent, while those making over $1 million would see it rise by 12.5 percent… [emphasis added]
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” wasnt born with a silver spoon” yea ? but now he has stolen one dammed if he is gonna let it out of his mouth!!
LOL Phyllis! Very well said! 😀
It is high time we abandon any support at all for the ridiculous Republican budget and immediately pass and implement the very sane and much needed Budget4All!
I fully agree, but we will have to change a lot in Washington to make it happen.
They are all brain-dead for even thinking Paul Ryan’s budget is worthy of approval.
Patty. I disagree. We shouldn’t mistake Machiavellian deceptiveness for stupidity.
I find Tiberi’s comments offensive. Whether you write a cheque to the IRS once a quarter, or whether you have taxes deducted at source, it is all tax money. The worker that has taxes deducted at source knows how much he is paying to the IRS just like the so called entrepreneur. The only difference, he has an employer who does it for him. And if the employee doesn’t know how much tax he is paying, then that is nothing more than educating him to read his pay statement.
“. . . Tiberi responded by saying that to do otherwise would be to “beat up on people who are trying to be successful.” He then made the case for raising taxes on the poor by lamenting that they don’t have any “skin in the game”…”
Last time I looked, most people want to be successful at what they have chosen to do. It would appear that his (Tiberi’s) definition of successful has a very narrow scope limited only to entrepreneurs, millionaires and billionaires. Nobody else is successful in his book! The word ‘successful’ has the following synonyms: flourishing, thriving, doing well, booming, profitable, lucrative. This is not the exclusive realm of entrepreneurs.
“. . . they don’t have any “skin in the game”. . . ” which I interpret to mean that ‘they’ don’t have an investment in the business. This is not a game! They have the sweat of their labours, their time invested, at whatever their job. What is at stake might be the type of investment, but a good employee still has an investment in seeing that the business does well.
As to the CPC Budget for All, looks good to me and based on the graphic, will reduce the US deficit more than the Ryan’s budget. The GOP budget is harkening back to the days of slavery — everything is balanced on the back’s of the middle class, poor, elderly and disabled.
The path to success is in investing in all of the citizens and building an economy where everyone participates and everyone is successful.
Lynn, I agree with everything you said. Excellent analysis. Let me clarify one thing.
They use the term “no skin in the game” to refer to people whose income is so low that they now pay no federal taxes. The analogy is a lie, because those people pay state taxes, gas taxes, excise taxes, etc. Republicans want to tax these poorest Americans to give more tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.
After I posted my comments, I came across a video of Eric Cantor, the little worm himself, talking about the budget and the Buffett Rule.
Cantor — over 45% of Americans do not pay income taxes
Question to Cantor —Would that include GE and other corporations since Citizens United gave them personhood? Start at the top and have them pay income tax.
The Council of Catholic Bishops is now denouncing the Ryan Budget because of its war on the poor, while Ryan is saying that’s not all the bishops — wrong it was written as a statement from all bishops. I guess the Bishops are finding out what it means when you lie down with dogs, you get fleas!
Walk a mile in the shoes of the poor! Feel your bare soles hit the pavement through the holes in their shoes. Feel the sloppy fit of their shoes because they don’t have shoelaces to keep them on.
OOPS I see you discovered what I said before. I fully agree.