After another cordial White House infrastructure meeting, GOP is still a no on raising corporate tax

[In It to Win It]

THE WEEK via Yahoo!

President Biden hosted another bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers on Monday to discuss his infrastructure proposal, and once again everyone said the meeting was cordial and respectful, Biden and his guests expressed a willingness to compromise on the size and scope of the bill, and the Republicans said they won't support raising the corporate tax rate to pay for the package.

Biden wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent, from 21 percent, to fund $2.25 trillion in spending. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has suggested a 25 percent rate, and there's speculation Democrats will settle around that number. "You could see a 2 or 3 percent increase — maybe not all the way to 28 but 25," Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.), who was at Monday's meeting, told The Wall Street Journal. GOP lawmakers were "more in favor of user fees so that whoever was benefiting from that particular infrastructure project would be paying for it in the long run," said Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.), another participant.

[Blue Owl]

1. GQP Logic:

Don't raise taxes on those who can afford it; instead raise taxes on those who CAN'T afford it.

Yeah, that'll all work out real great.

[Takket]

2. "user fees" is a nice way of saying a regressive tax increase on the middle class and poor

[EarlG]

3. GOP is onto a loser here

GOP lawmakers were "more in favor of user fees so that whoever was benefiting from that particular infrastructure project would be paying for it in the long run..."

So we all agree that we need to fund infrastructure improvements, but while Biden and the Democrats want to make massive companies contribute their fair share, Republicans would rather fund it by forcing people who already have barely enough to live on to pay additional fees.

Good luck selling that to voters...

[wiggs]

4. Another fine example of the gop motto: 'Comfort the comfortable, aflict the aflicted.'

quote not mine, don't remember the source.

[gratuitous]

5. "No" isn't a responsible bargaining position

And by the way, everyone benefits from well-maintained roads and sewage systems, Carlos. Everyone, particularly industrial concerns, should be paying for them. For those profiting nicely from the system, more will be asked of them to repair and improve it.

[JT45242]

6. The Florida guy wants the people who use it to pay for it...that's so hypocritical and stupid

That is the height of hypocrisy in a state with no income tax.

OK -- that's fine -- you go to your constituents and say that any repairs that are needed due to the next hurricane MUST COME FROM FLORIDA TAXPAYERS ONLY --

Florida is a giant welfare state stealing money from blue areas -- go ahead buddy. Make our day.

[dweller]

7. GQP

Modern version of the Troll under the bridge ...


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