John Boehner: GOP Won't Agree To Raise Taxes On Wealthy, Even If Obama Wins Reelection

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- Elections often come with a mandate -- or at least some sort of consequences for the defeated party, which not only has its candidates rejected by the public, but its ideas as well. Nevertheless, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is vowing that even if President Obama is reelected, Republicans will not budge on their refusal to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.

At a press conference Friday morning, a reporter asked Boehner whether Republicans were "eventually going to have to raise taxes in some way" if the president wins in November.

"No," replied Boehner. "Raising taxes, according to Ernst and Young, would threaten our economy with a loss of 700,000 jobs. Now why would I ever be for something like that? I'm not."

Boehner's stand-firm stance is not shared by all of his caucus. According to the Washington Post, "senior Republicans in the House and the Senate" admit that if the president is reelected, he will have leverage to push for allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire on income above $250,000.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/john-boehner-taxes-wealth-obama-reelection_n_1903715.html

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Let all the tax cuts expire and then draft legislation that only cuts taxes for households making $250,000 and under.

[unblock]

1. aw c'mon, john! you guys have pissed off everybody else, why not go for a clean sweep?

[mzmolly]

2. I'm far from wealthy, but I'll gladly pay more taxes so that we can pay down our debt.

So, let all the tax cuts expire, Boehner! You'll be among the party, America holds responsible.

[rsweets]

24. +1

[daleanime]

27. Agreed.

If we spend it smarter, stopped the wars, cut the defense budget, invested in education and infrastructure, etc....

[jeff47]

38. I won't.

On the other hand, I'll gladly pay more taxes to pay for stimulus programs to drag the economy back to "normal", thus making our "debt problem" go away all on it's own.

[mzmolly]

39. That too.

[airplaneman]

40. Yeah I am with you.

Let all the tax cuts expire!
Then increase the tax rate on those making more than $250K a year.
I am also far from wealthy.
I favor higher taxes in return for a secure social security, medicare, paying down the debt, and safety nets for those less fortunate than I.
Cut military spending too!
-Airplane

[reflection]

52. I'm with you. n/t

[wryter2000]

3. Enjoy your speakership while you have it, bozo

100% is agreement. Let the tax cuts expire and then let these idiots vote against tax cuts for the lower income levels.

[skeewee08]

4. Boehner you are such a dumb***

[Voice for Peace]

5. they can stand firm on this and watch 99% of congress go Democratic

[tonybgood]

30. I hate to rain on your parade but...

With the congressional redistricting done after the 2010 census, it will be difficult if not impossible for that large a swing in Congress. I'll be happy if both houses of Congress return to Democratic control!!! BTW, I live in Boehner's district and he'll get re-elected here, unfortunately. It's embarrassing to drive around and see all the Boehner and Romney signs.

[Voice for Peace]

43. but but but my parade!!!!!

anyway, it just seemed that when it becomes clearer and clearer
that the republicans are no way no how going to ask the
gazillionaires to pay more -- eventually everyone else will be
quite poor, and start voting differently.

it's a nice parade, full of funny people and bright
colors, nobody in uniforms or marching boots, just people walking
backwards or frontwards, and happily if they like, or sad if
they prefer, or standing still in the middle; and everyone in
the parade is marching to a different drummer from the
person next to him (OR her)

but to everyone's astonishment there is
rhythm harmony and groove.
Cacophany is rare but if
it occurs, everyone cheers and carries on.
If there is rain, they open umbrellas and carry on.

[daybranch]

48. Redistricting

Well just help us pass Issue 2 for the independent redistricting commission and we can rid ourselves of Boehner in 2014..

[Brigid]

59. I've heard that Boehner is running unopposed.

Is it true?

[tonybgood]

60. Yes.

Boehner is running against an independent but there is no Democrat running for his seat. DCCC will not put any money into this district to support an opponent. Why? Because the make-up of this district is so heavily Republican they don't feel the money would help.

[beac]

6. Thanks for reminding everyone why the GOP must lose control of BOTH houses,

you orange nincompoop!



edited for fat finger typo

[Liberalynn]

37. +1

[mikki35]

7. There it is, bold as brass

Its little statements like this that say it all. 'EVEN IF Obama is reelected, me and my fellow Republicans will NEVER stop our fight to make him look bad.' 700,000 jobs my ass. Somebody pulled that number out of thin air, or maybe they polled their disgustingly rich campaign contributors and asked them how many would be fired if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire? My guess? They made it up out of thin air, then added a zero or two. The ONLY thing I'm surprised about is they haven't rounded it up into the millions. They can't make it any clearer than that, people. "We don't give a fiddler's fart about the American people when we have a FAR more important job to do - have you seen the color of the man in the White House?????????" THAT'S what it's all about. And they don't care who gets thrown under the bus in their zeal to obstruct anything proposed or approved by Obama.

[1GirlieGirl]

8. Stop picking on the Boner!

You're gonna make him cry!

[Angry Dragon]

12. the weeping boner has spurted ......... ah spoken

[Panasonic]

9. GOP will be a minority party

and trending down to a faded memory and wondered what the hell happened to the Party of Lincoln.

Also, House Congresspeople on the R side should have their wages revoked until they agree to finish pressing business before they go lie to the people some more.

I forsee a massive turnover (net +45 on the House Dems) - and House retaken, and Senate restrengthened. Reid agrees to nuke the filibuster for the time being, because Obama and the Dems have the real political capital to spend and they will indeed use it wisely over R's objections.

[GreenPartyVoter]

50. Hope so!

[robinlynne]

10. That's what we all said a year ago.....

[Angry Dragon]

11. The republicans have already voted for a tax increase

they voted to let the tax cuts expire .............

[Roland99]

13. Tax cuts have been in place for a DECADE!! Where the F*** are the jobs, Bonehead?!

[SoapBox]

14. FU Tan Man...

Gawd...I hate this Orange Freak.

[flamingdem]

15. What do we do to traitors these days? nt

[MyOwnPeace]

51. Er.......

Nothing! (see: Bush; Cheney; Rumsfeld)

[flamingdem]

53. true dat

):

[Blue Owl]

16. Impotence and Incompetence

n/t

[randome]

17. The DNC needs to blast the airwaves with this!

We need a majority in the House to stop the stalemate!

[bluestateguy]

18. So then off the cliff we go

and a big cut for the Pentagon.

Those taxes are going up no matter what. It's only a question of on whom.

[Fuddnik]

19. Arrest them all for treason.

They are deliberately harming the country.

I don't say this lightly, but this willful destruction of our country has to start somewhere.

[oldbanjo]

29. They should have been arrested three years ago.

[donqpublic]

20. Can you imagine...

The tears on his orange pillow. Crying himself to sleep after his night-time whiskey-sours (5 of them).

[elleng]

21. LETS GIVE PRESIDENT OBAMA A CONGRESS HE CAN WORK WITH!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125188984

[freshwest]

46. +1

[el scorcho]

22. Get out the vote

Problem: GOP is intent on bankrupting the country.

Solution: Get out the vote for Democratic candidates in congress.

Give Obama a majority in the house and senate.

Winning the white house alone is not enough.

[appleannie1]

23. In 2 years you will be out of a job John. But you don't have to worry about being in the 47% crowd.

[midnight]

25. Sounds like Boehner is using blackmail...

if the rich don't continue to get their tax cuts....

[liberal N proud]

26. Is America sick of these cry babies rich bastards yet?

Talk about sucking off the government teat.

They do nothing for this nation but suck the rest of us dry. Who builds this nation?, the middle class and working poor. That's who. Who funds the building of this nation? The working public and the rich don't work, their money does it for them.

I for one am so fucking sick of the rich sucking everything out of business and the government while calling everyone else moochers.

[The CCC]

28. John Boehner: GOP Won't Agree To Raise Taxes On Wealthy, Even If Obama Wins Reelection

This is exactly why we need to vote out any Republican from any public office or any position of trust for at least the next 100 years. Just to undo some of the incalculable damage they have done to this country.

[MiniMe]

31. Interesting, they had the opposite in The Washington Post this morning

GOP retreat on taxes likely if Obama wins

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gop-retreat-on-taxes-likely-if-obama-wins/2012/09/20/49948828-0330-11e2-9b24-ff730c7f6312_story.html

By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, Published: September 20


Senior Republicans say they will be forced to retreat on taxes if President Obama wins a second term in November, clearing the biggest obstacle to a deal with Democrats to defuse a year-end budget bomb that threatens to rock the U.S. economy

Republicans have long resisted tax increases of any kind. But taxes are a major battleground in the campaign between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, Capitol Hill veterans say, and the victor will be able to claim a mandate for his policies.

“This is a referendum on taxes,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a senior member of the House Budget Committee. “If the president wins reelection, taxes are going up” for the nation’s wealthiest households, and “there’s not a lot we can do about that.”

With Election Day still more than six weeks away and the president holding a thin lead in national polls, Republicans say they are not conceding that an Obama victory is the likely outcome. But they are beginning to plan for that possibility.


More at the link

[mckara]

32. Let's Hope the Next Speaker's Name will be Nancy!!!!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

33. Let all the tax cuts expire and then draft legislation that only cuts taxes for households making

$250,000 and under.

Legislation already passed the Senate. The House Republicans are sitting on it, of course.

[abelenkpe]

34. Boehner reminds democrats why it's important to win the house

And senate along with the presidency.

[torotoro]

35. I just hope Obama wont cave and agree to Boehner to keep the tax cuts for some lame compremise

I am still upset over the grand bargaining that Obama is desparate to do but if he even cabves to Bohener on this and we keep the tax cuts for the rich in place then he is no better than them. Enough with these stupid tax cuts. Let them expire. Bohener can go suck a fat one.

[Javaman]

36. looks as if boner boy just threw in the towel. nt

[magic59]

41. Well, I guess its time to vote the 47% GOP out of office

They are, as Romney put it, a bunch of freeloaders that refuse to work while taking government money.

[Plaid Adder]

42. Country to Boehner: Guess We Need Fewer Republicans In Congress Then

n/t

[julian09]

44. In lame duck session, losers will still be there to cause their mischief til new congress in Jan/ 13

they will have nothing to lose and Boehner knows it. He has no control over them, what could help is the defeat of Cantor.

[samsingh]

45. more reason to vote these self absorbed ass wipes out

[daybranch]

47. Soon

Boehner is currently prottected by GOP gerrymandering in the state of Ohio. We have succeeded in getting a constitutional amendment for an independent redistricting commission on the ballot. With this commission of 4 republicans, 4 democrats , and 4 independents whose goal is to make each district contain about the same number of democrats as republicans and therefore make them competitive, we will be able to get rid of the crazy teabaggers and Boehner himself.We must vote for the commission to make our representatives, republicans or democrat, accountable.
In any case you should expect to see about 4 to 6 republicans at least fail to win reelection to the House in 2104Please vote to approve Issue 2 if you want an accountable government.

[fascisthunter]

49. GOOD! Then you will continue to lose, for being so Transparently in the pockets of the wealthy

you fucking tools!

[lovemydog]

54. That's the work republicans do -

protect the ultra rich.

Hopefully more republican voters will recognize this and start voting for democrats.

[and-justice-for-all]

55. Doesn't matter boner...

you about to lose your majority.

[alp227]

56. Hmm, no one has pointed out Norquist yet?

Remember his quote, "I just want to shrink (government) down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

[tavalon]

57. Soon to be ex speaker Boehner can cry me a river

That Oompa Loompa has already sailed.

[phascismisphun]

58. This will work for him

The Bush/Obama Tax Cut, yes Obama OWNS part of it now when he caved in to them a few years back and extened them, will expire and the GOP will turn around and blame the black guy for raising thier taxes. Now all the GOP has to do is obstruct for 2-4 years and they get a GOP sweep in 16.

In the unlikely event the GOP has a few problems with obstruction the Koch brothers and their ilk will be more then happy to buy a few more of the DINO's that currently have a (D) after thier name who can ALWAYS be counted on to protect the 1%.

[JoePhilly]

62. Wrong.

Obama can let the Bush tax cuts expire. And the GOP can "blame Obama" ... who gives a shit. Obama can't run for a 3rd term.
Which means attacking him does NOTHING.

Here is what happens. Win or lose, Obama lets them ALL expire. Minutes later, the Dems introduce a bill that retro actively reinstates ONLY the cuts for those in the middle class.

And then the Dems DARE the GOP (and the few remaining blue dogs) to oppose that middle class TAX CUT.

Check mate.

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

61. How have those Bush tax cuts helped the economy?

I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but the one question no Republican can artfully answer is the one in my subject line. If these tax cuts were designed to fuel the economy and create jobs, what happened in Bush's final year and why didn't they prevent the economy's freefall and the lose of millions of jobs?

[Zoeisright]

63. Then we'll have to do it without you, asshole.

Slink away under your rock, you orange cockroach.