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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘Class warfare’: GOP senator attacks Obama’s plan to close tax loopholes for the wealthy
Like the old saying goes, it's only "class warfare" when people fight back.
The Senates top tax law writer accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of undertaking class warfare with his plan to raise taxes on wealthier Americans to help the middle class.
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the proposals Obama is expected to set out in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening would violate principles of simplicity and revenue neutrality that Hatch said are key to any real tax reform.
This plan that well hear about tonight appears to be more about redistribution, with added complexity, and class warfare, directed at job-creating small businesses, than about tax reform, Hatch said in remarks prepared for delivery in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/class-warfare-gop-senator-attacks-obamas-plan-to-close-tax-loopholes-for-the-wealthy/
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the proposals Obama is expected to set out in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening would violate principles of simplicity and revenue neutrality that Hatch said are key to any real tax reform.
This plan that well hear about tonight appears to be more about redistribution, with added complexity, and class warfare, directed at job-creating small businesses, than about tax reform, Hatch said in remarks prepared for delivery in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/class-warfare-gop-senator-attacks-obamas-plan-to-close-tax-loopholes-for-the-wealthy/
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‘Class warfare’: GOP senator attacks Obama’s plan to close tax loopholes for the wealthy (Original Post)
phantom power
Jan 2015
OP
isobar
(188 posts)1. Fuck Hatch
raise those dang taxes!!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)2. Obama should bury the viewer with hard numbers in the SOTU speech. From Reagan to now.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)3. So says the senator worth
almost four million dollars. No conflict of interest there.
Why was it not class warfare when they lowered the taxes for the wealthy?
safeinOhio
(32,714 posts)4. Just return the rates
To what they were under Reagan.