Raise Taxes on the Rich? No! On the Working Class? Ok!
President Obama has proposed extending the payroll tax cut, giving relief to the wage earners of this country and stimulating demand. The GOP immediately pounced on this idea as "too little, too late" (Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI). In a stunning display of crass hypocrisy, Ryan went on to call the expiration of the Bush tax cuts as a tax increase.
"We can't raise taxes on job creators in a recession."
What I think he meant to say was, "We can't ever raise taxes on the rich, who help me get re-elected year after year, and with whom I intend to sup with once I retire to my lobbying gig. But the wage earners of this country do not fill my campaign coffers, nor do they subsidize my $300 bottles of wine at The Capitol Grille. Why do they deserve a break?"
What a jerk.
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct3=MAA4CUgAUABgAWoCdXN6AWjYAQE&usg=AFQj...://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-deficit-plan-20110919,0,2114442.story
