Capitol Hill GOP and Pseudo Dems Outraged at Obama's Call for Corporations and Wealthy to Pay Their Taxes
On Capitol Hill, Republicans and phony Democrats like the Blue Dogs firmly believe in government of, by, and for the wealthy especially since so many of them line their pockets with money from wealthy corporations.
Now that President Obama plans to go after offshore tax havens used by wealthy corporate tax cheats, these GOP and phony Dems, defenders of the rich, are screaming to high heaven.
They are incensed that Obama has called for corporations to pay their taxes, like the rest of regular Americans. It's called tax fairness which these Repuglicans and some pseudo Democratic gits on Capitol Hill oppose.
I repeat, back up the truck and defeat all the Republicans and spineless pseudo Democrats who have been controlled by the wealthy financial institutions and corporations, especially those who served between 1995 and 2006.
As Down With Tyranny comments: "My ears are still ringing from waking up to the howls and yowls of outrage-- and that was yesterday... and it isn't stopping. The wealthiest and most powerful-- always campaign donors-- have spent billions of dollars to make sure they wouldn't have to pay taxes and to make sure the federal government's primary tasks would be to guarantee their continued primacy. This Obama feller isn't playing by their rules-- the ones they paid for. The hysteria that started yesterday was sparked by the gumption of this guy trying to force them to pay their taxes. God, you would have thought he just decided to change the name from "Congress" to the "People's Soviet!" What he did was take aim at tax avoiders seeking to shelter their money in offshore accounts. Now there's something to stir the rancid hearts of any teabagger too stupid to put 1 + 1 together and figure out not to eat his own feces on the subway! Obama estimates getting these scofflaws to pay their fair share will add $210 billion to the treasury over the next decade. I wonder if Grover Norquist drowned himself in his own bathtub today.
"Few Republicans are stupid enough to take this on directly and head-on-- maybe Michele Bachmann, Paul Broun, Virginia Foxx and Richard Burr. But Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and other right-wing shills for Big Business were already twisting the argument away from tax fairness and towards... socialism. That worked real well for them in the early 1930's (not!) and I have my fingers crossed that it will have the same impact this time-- 88 Republicans left in the House of Representatives. Miss McConnell was already calling the proposal “a significant tax increase on companies representing 44 percent of total U.S. private employment” and said that in the depths of recession, it seemed “particularly harmful to our shared goal of creating more American jobs rather than driving them overseas."
"The richest and most powerful among us don't plan on taking this lying down. Like Illinois Senator Dick Durbin reminded us a few days ago, they own the Senate. They own the entire Republican Party lock, stock and barrel and they own the DLC wing of the Democratic Party-- corrupt reactionaries like the Evan Bayh anti-Obama Bloc, bribe-taking sleaze-bags,Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson and Max Baucus for example.
"Baucus was as fast out of the gate defending his wealthy patrons as McConnell was! Obama's plans to close loopholes that have been paid for by the wealthy via immense bribes to members of Congress are causing major turmoil in Washington..."
Now that President Obama plans to go after offshore tax havens used by wealthy corporate tax cheats, these GOP and phony Dems, defenders of the rich, are screaming to high heaven.
They are incensed that Obama has called for corporations to pay their taxes, like the rest of regular Americans. It's called tax fairness which these Repuglicans and some pseudo Democratic gits on Capitol Hill oppose.
I repeat, back up the truck and defeat all the Republicans and spineless pseudo Democrats who have been controlled by the wealthy financial institutions and corporations, especially those who served between 1995 and 2006.
As Down With Tyranny comments: "My ears are still ringing from waking up to the howls and yowls of outrage-- and that was yesterday... and it isn't stopping. The wealthiest and most powerful-- always campaign donors-- have spent billions of dollars to make sure they wouldn't have to pay taxes and to make sure the federal government's primary tasks would be to guarantee their continued primacy. This Obama feller isn't playing by their rules-- the ones they paid for. The hysteria that started yesterday was sparked by the gumption of this guy trying to force them to pay their taxes. God, you would have thought he just decided to change the name from "Congress" to the "People's Soviet!" What he did was take aim at tax avoiders seeking to shelter their money in offshore accounts. Now there's something to stir the rancid hearts of any teabagger too stupid to put 1 + 1 together and figure out not to eat his own feces on the subway! Obama estimates getting these scofflaws to pay their fair share will add $210 billion to the treasury over the next decade. I wonder if Grover Norquist drowned himself in his own bathtub today.
"Few Republicans are stupid enough to take this on directly and head-on-- maybe Michele Bachmann, Paul Broun, Virginia Foxx and Richard Burr. But Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and other right-wing shills for Big Business were already twisting the argument away from tax fairness and towards... socialism. That worked real well for them in the early 1930's (not!) and I have my fingers crossed that it will have the same impact this time-- 88 Republicans left in the House of Representatives. Miss McConnell was already calling the proposal “a significant tax increase on companies representing 44 percent of total U.S. private employment” and said that in the depths of recession, it seemed “particularly harmful to our shared goal of creating more American jobs rather than driving them overseas."
"The richest and most powerful among us don't plan on taking this lying down. Like Illinois Senator Dick Durbin reminded us a few days ago, they own the Senate. They own the entire Republican Party lock, stock and barrel and they own the DLC wing of the Democratic Party-- corrupt reactionaries like the Evan Bayh anti-Obama Bloc, bribe-taking sleaze-bags,Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson and Max Baucus for example.
"Baucus was as fast out of the gate defending his wealthy patrons as McConnell was! Obama's plans to close loopholes that have been paid for by the wealthy via immense bribes to members of Congress are causing major turmoil in Washington..."
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