Kline, Paulsen, Peterson vote against middle-class tax relief

Headline should read:
Tim Waltz, Keith Ellison, James Oberstar and Betty McCollum vote for Job killing Tax increase on small business.
There was a reason that Democrats were thrown out of office.
People want a pay check not a welfare check.

If they want the tax cut extended for those 97% of Americans who make below $250,000 they should have voted for it. They can deal with the other 3% – where the parties disagree – later. At least let the majority of the people relax and know their taxes won’t go up. The headline should be exactly what it is, because that’s what they did. By the way, Democrats were not thrown out of Washington. . Democrats won enough elections to hold the Senate. Every Democrat tin Congress was elected by the people. “the people” are not just Republicans and the newest members of Congress”. We ALL still live here.

New poll: Just 26 percent of Americans say they support extending the cuts for all Americans, even those earning above the $250,000 level, which is the GOP proposal.

FIRST smart thing I have seen the Dem’s do in 2 years!!

No one believes any polls from See B.S. news. Even democrat congressmen.

This is a meaningless vote because it’ll fail in the senate. The only plan that will pass in both the house and the senate is the one that extends the tax rates for ALL taxpayers, not just some.

The class warfare and mob rule of the democrats is coming to an end in January and everyone will be treated equally for a change.

Dennis, all taxpayers DO get the cut. Even hedge fund managers get a cut on the first $250,000. They just have to pay on the next billion. Considering the billionaires got saved in the bailouts while the rest of us sacrificed, seems fair to me.

It’s Frikkin AMAZING how many names the Republitard party has Nowadays!!

1) Republican
2) Conservative ( LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!)
3) Independent
4) Tea Baggers ( Like these NuttBalls even studied the true Boston Tea Party)\
5) BLUE DOGS!!! These are the MOST COWARDLY REPUBLICANS of ALL!!!

I find it AMAZING that a “Blue Dog” ( Extreme Right Winger) could even make it in the Greatest State in the Nation…

The Democrats in Congress voted to keep the Tax Cuts for the MIddle Class and those earning up to $250,000 jointly, $200,000 Individually from going up in January of 2011..

The Republicans voted to RAISE Taxes on the Middle Class.

The Upper 2% of wage earners are doing fine. The “job creators” the Republicans want to protect, have been deficiant in stemming the loss of jobs prior to the Stimulus passing. That was when an average of 700,000 jobs were being lost fom late 2007 into the summer of 2009. There have been 10 straight months of Private Secotor job growth in 2010. More this year than in GWB’s 8 years! That has to acount for something!

“There have been 10 straight months of Private Secotor job growth in 2010. More this year than in GWB’s 8 years! That has to acount for something!”

And the unemployment rate has been at 9.5% or higher for 16 straight months. That’s the longest stretch since the 1930s. In October of 2006, just 3 months before the democrats took over congress, unemployment was 4.4%.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/nov/wk1/art01.htm

So why is no one paying attention to statements like this from Warren Buffet – one of the richest men around:

“Warren Buffet complained that he paid a 17.7% tax rate on his $46 million of taxable income in 2006, while his employees paid an average 32.9% tax rate (his receptionist’s tax rate was 30%).”

Yes in case you didn’t hear, he is all in FAVOR of raising his own taxes.

Where has Ms. Bachmann been ?

Besides missing this vote, she also missed the vote to re-authorize the Child Nutrition program (Read more here which discusses how the House had to write a special piece of legislation just to appease John Kline.)

BTW, can we put this into perspective … if $52,029 is the median household income, and aren’t they really the Job Creators ?
The average family is the one that supports the local businesses … they buy groceries and pay property taxes … they keep the economies going.
Now, on the other hand, consider that there are approximately 146,000 (0.1%) households with incomes exceeding $1,500,000 a year. Even at that, the top 0.01% of households had incomes of $5,500,000 and accounted for 11,000 households. The 400 highest tax payers in the nation brought in a stunning $87,000,000 a year. Now that is wealth.

What would be the lifestyle impact of a 3% tax increase on those top earners ?

How many fewer jobs would they support if they had to pay the higher taxes … my guess none.

Great summary Andy,

Middle class folks will soon find that they do not qualify for the child credit, that some of their illations may be severely limited and their current tax bill will go up $ 500 – 1500. I think that the rich are rich, because they resulted out how to do or create something with market value. Politicians do not want to take responsibility for their bad judgement so they play mind games with people. And these games are intolerant !