{"id":20576,"date":"2010-09-24T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20576"},"modified":"2010-09-24T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:59:01","slug":"how-much-do-you-trust-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20576","title":{"rendered":"How much do you trust Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, they hope you trust them a whole lot because they’ve decided that they’re not going to renew the Bush tax cuts for even the middle class until after the elections. Those tax cuts expire at the end of the following month and affect every tax payer. (Fox Business News<\/a> link)<\/p>\n

“Democrats believe we must permanently extend tax cuts for the middle-class before they expire at the end of the year, and we will,” Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Reid said in an email. “Unfortunately, to this point we have received no cooperation from Republicans to do so.”<\/p>\n

The Senate will come back after its recess for the November elections to address the issue, he said. The Senate had been expected to take the lead on the issue, though House leaders were still discussing whether to take their own vote, according to aides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, it’s always the Republicans’ fault. More than 300 economists signed a letter to Obama<\/a> claiming that tax hikes on even the highest earning Americans will have a severe impact on the economy. I’d argue that it already has since no one is spending money this year in case they need it next year to pay their taxes. If no one spends money, how does the economy recover?<\/p>\n

Senator Charles Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said putting off a vote was irresponsible and reckless.<\/p>\n

“Leaving people with uncertainty is a dereliction of duty. One party has control of the White House and both houses of Congress and still can’t get the people’s business done,” he said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s more than irresponsible to hold the American people hostage for more than a month trapped in a poorly performing economy. Sure they’ve promised to keep the tax cuts in place, but how many promises have politicians broken over the last couple of hundred years. Never happened, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, they hope you trust them a whole lot because they’ve decided that they’re not going … How much do you trust Democrats?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}