{"id":21532,"date":"2010-12-15T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21532"},"modified":"2010-12-15T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T14:15:12","slug":"vanhollen-blames-republicans-for-impending-tax-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21532","title":{"rendered":"VanHollen blames Republicans for impending tax hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t like Chris VanHollen. He was my congressman when my paycheck was held hostage in the Maryland gulag of Montgomery County and I hated every minute. VanHollen looks like a shifty used car dealer and talks like one, too. Today he misinforms the public in the Washington Post<\/a> about the fight against the Democrats’ impending tax hikes just two weeks away from taking effect; <\/p>\n

Senate Republicans have made it clear they are willing to raise taxes this January on middle-class Americans unless they get tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires – despite the fact that a tax hike on the middle class could slow an already anemic economic recovery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, we’re two weeks away from the tax hikes without a resolution because Democrats have kicked the can down the road this whole year. The truth is that until the November elections, they’d just planned on letting the Bush tax rates expire so they could raise our taxes without actually owning the tax hike.<\/p>\n

They had an opportunity to extend the rates before the election, but Nancy Pelosi thought she could hold our votes hostage. <\/p>\n

Van Hollen’s whole hissy today in the Post is about estate taxes, or death taxes. He’s upset that Republicans want to exempt estates up to $5 million from this completely irresponsible tax. It’s the height of class warfare. All of a decedent’s estate has already been taxed while he was earning it, and then it gets taxed again upon the decedent’s demise – and the tax is due to the government in 9 months, no matter what form that estate takes, property, business or cash. So the survivors have to sell off the estate to meet the taxes.<\/p>\n

If the estate is a business, the business has to be sold. If it’s a farm, the farm must be sold. How is that good for the economy? Van Hollen disagrees;<\/p>\n

But this last-minute $23 billion giveaway made payable to the wealthiest estates in the country – which digs us deeper into debt without adding a single job – is simply a bad deal for the American people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It might not add jobs, but it’ll save some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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