{"id":30706,"date":"2012-07-10T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30706"},"modified":"2012-07-10T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:33:19","slug":"when-will-they-stop-being-the-bush-tax-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30706","title":{"rendered":"When will they stop being the “Bush tax cuts”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The president has recently called for extending the “Bush Tax Cuts” for lower income Americans – you know, when President Bush cut the Clinton tax hikes back and probably saved the post-9-11 economy. The last of the cuts was more than nine years ago. So, I’m wondering when the president and the media are going to call them the “impending Obama tax hikes” and move past the “Bush tax cuts” phrase. From CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama revitalized his push for holding down middle-class tax rates Monday, calling on Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year.<\/p>\n

In a White House statement delivered while people described as working Americans stood behind him, Obama said his proposal would provide the certainty of no tax increase next year for 98% of Americans.<\/p>\n

Noting that Republicans seek to maintain all of the Bush tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003, Obama said both sides therefore agree on extending the lower rates for middle-class families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the one-year extension is nothing more than a campaign ploy, and not preventing the Obama tax hikes on wealthier Americans is just class warfare at it’s essence. We’re supposed to hate on Republicans because they’ll be holding up stopping the imposition of the Obama Tax Hikes on us because of their support for continued lower tax benefits for Americans making over $250k.<\/p>\n

But we didn’t call Bush rollback of the tax burden imposed on us by the previous administration the “Clinton Tax Hikes” so why are we still calling them the “Bush Tax Cuts”? Of course, the answer is that the media and the Democrats for so long told us that they were tax cuts for the rich, even though the current debate proves that lie is just that, since we’re all looking at higher taxes without the benevolence of this president and the Congress.<\/p>\n

A one-year extension won’t help the economy in the long term, though. They need to stop holding the economy and voters hostage and make current tax rates permanent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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