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In reply to the discussion: I sure as hell won't miss the Holder Doctrine [View all]Utopian Leftist
(534 posts)Obama was not in favor of keeping the Bush tax cuts. He campaigned on ending them. But somehow the Republican Congress badgered him and if I remember correctly, the way they badgered him was they said that if he raised the taxes on the wealthy, the Republicans would effectively force him to also raise taxes on the middle class. They threatened that if he did not make the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy permanent, that they would prevent him from making the (necessary) Bush tax cuts on the middle class permanent, too. So maybe he chose what he thought was the lesser of two evils--not raising the taxes at all rather than dragging down what was left of our middle class in order to raise them on the wealthy? When the obvious solution (the one too complicated to sell to the public, apparently) was that we needed to raise that taxes on the wealthy and lower them on the middle class. But then, Republicons can't whistle Dixie and chew gum at the same time. Democrats should be POUNDING this point right now! That the Democratic position is to raise taxes on the wealthy. Why is that not on everyone's lips? It's a proven winner, the American people agree that it is time to make the wealthy pay their fare share. Even Obama is on our side of that argument. If only he were President...{sarcasm}.