George W. Bush decries raising taxes on 'the so-called rich'

[kpete]

Source: The Hill

George W. Bush decries raising taxes on 'the so-called rich'
By Alicia M. Cohn - 04/10/12 11:24 AM ET

Former President George W. Bush on Tuesday voiced opposition to raising taxes on “the so-called rich” in a rare public policy speech.

Bush, speaking in New York City at the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s conference on “Tax Policies For 4% Growth,” has mostly avoided weighing in publicly on current political debates since leaving office.



“I don’t think it’s good for our country to undermine our president and I don’t intend to do so,” Bush said. But he laid out his clear support for extending the payroll tax cut, also known as the Bush tax cuts, at the end of the year.

“I wish they weren’t called the ‘Bush tax cuts,’ ” he said, according to Forbes. “If they were called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/220711-george-w-bush-decries-raising-taxes-on-the-rich

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I can't think of many people I would describe as both stupid and evil, but GW Bush fits the bill

perfectly!

[KansDem]

2. This...from the man who sat a did nothing while his buddies attacked us.

He can go to Hell...

[Brigid]

4. "Which one of [my buddies] screwed me?"

A great moment from "Farenheit 9/11.

[Kolesar]

25. That was my "takeaway line" from that movie

It was really thought provoking.
For example: why is the US in Afghanistan?

[lsewpershad]

3. This shrub

is still dumb

[Tom Ripley]

5. So, he crawled out of a bottle to defend his legacy?

[libinnyandia]

6. I sure as hell hope he's the last in that family to live in the White House!

[shawn703]

7. "I wish they weren’t called the ‘Bush tax cuts'"

At least he has no delusions of what people think of him and his ideas.

[lastlib]

40. If you didn't want your name on 'em, why the fuck did you enact 'em?

Dipwad.

Come to think of it, why didn't your daddy just let you run down his leg? Humanity would've been better off.

LYING WORTHLESS PILE OF EXCREMENT.

[truthisfreedom]

8. "some other body's"

Dude, get a fucking clue. They're your fucking tax cuts for the ultra rich, you stupid country-destroying parasitic piece of shit.

[Archae]

9. He doesn't want his own taxes to be increased.

His or his good buddy Dick's taxes.

Meanwhile they joyfully suck at the public teat.

[truebrit71]

10. Fuck You, War Criminal.

Nobody gives a fuck what you "think"...

[Iliyah]

11. Sorta selfish huh?

Didn't think about it when you signed it huh? You could care less now and before knowing that it would eventually hurt the working class? Keep talking, keep reminding the American public cause this will help 100% for Pres O's re-election.

[Lasher]

18. Maybe Obama will get another Nobel Peace Prize for not being Bush.

[pansypoo53219]

12. he just added to the pile of fucking DEMERITS!

no clue. he has NO CLUE to the damage HE caused.

[onehandle]

13. Shut up... No, keep talking. Come out of your gated community.

Remind everyone why they should Never vote Republican.

[Roland99]

14. Who gives a flying fuck what that cretin has to say??

[felix_numinous]

15. Back

back into your cave! Get!

[emulatorloo]

19. The more he speaks the happier I am. People need to remember that guy

Repubs are trying real hard to make us forget.

[felix_numinous]

21. Your right

--Bush is just a reminder of their crimes and corruption. He is a criminal that is not in jail.

[mac56]

26. +1

See #24 below.

[JHB]

16. Spoken like a man who owes his success to his daddy's Rolodex

He spent his entire life failing upward because his contacts were more valuable than he was.

The problem with the is not the name, it's the policy itself.

Find those WMDs yet?

[Lasher]

17. The last person on earth whose advice I would follow.

S&P 500 Annual Growth Rate

[Larry Ogg]

32. Looks like Bill Clinton had the best performance by a landslide.

Yupers... No doubt about it, he was a real champion for the American Dream, middle class workers and poor people everywhere.

Of course, in order for the political layman to believe in such false dichotomies, they have to literally put on the blinders and forget about how things like NAFTA and all the big money, and big business deregulation etc., turned out to be a Trojan Horse death sentence for the working middle class and poor.

And as far as the never elected Gorge W. Bush goes.
He and all his buddies should be sitting in the darkest of dungeons,
and never allowed to see the light of day for the rest of their evil lives.

[Dont call me Shirley]

48. Oh, there are those pesky facts again.

[krispos42]

20. And what have we learned from Dubya's reign?

If you do the opposite of what he wants, things turn out better.

[geardaddy]

22. He might as well say...

"I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I'm gonna anyway."

[Marrah_G]

23. Of course he says this.... why would he not?

His family has never cared about anyone but themselves.

[mac56]

24. This is awesome.

This is like an early Christmas gift.

Dubya has been The Invisible Ex-President for years now. To have him slither out and defend tax cuts for the rich is fantastic. Now the GOP hopefuls will be forced to say "I Agree With President Bush."

Can't wait.

[freshwest]

27. Aw, poor Baby. You own it, buddy. It only worked out well for you and your pals.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

28. No matter how slick and smarmy I think Romney is

he doesn't even come remotely close to provoking the level of disgust I feel for the war criminal who engineered a coup d'etat through the Supreme Court, suspended our Constitution, and fed his ego at the expense of the lives of thousands of U.S. military.

[SamG]

29. What a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE man he is!

And to think, America voted for him over Kerry, (supposedly) and the Supreme Court let him be President over Gore.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

30. I feel better about the so-called ramen I was going to have for lunch (maybe it's actually a steak)

After all these years, it's still amazing what GOP voters will swallow whole. That there are bad actors like GWB out there isn't a great surprise, but I'm still taken aback at the cues the simpleton GOP voters respond to. Show 'em a binary, all-black-and-white, John Wayne swaggering idiot, and they'll show you their new savior. The GOP and its voters are hopelessly flawed, and I do hope that more and more people are able to see that.

[Martin Eden]

31. George W. Bush decries being imprisoned for war crimes.

THAT is the headline I want to see!!!

[HughBeaumont]

33. "Miss Me Yet"?

Over two trillion bucks.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/07/237560/10-years-bush-tax-cuts/

That's how much your damaging economic policies have cost America, Dumbya (I'm not even counting your costlier folly invasions)

But hey, keep talking . . . and come out for an endorsement. Americans need a reminder why they should never, EVER vote Republican again.

[yellowcanine]

34. I get a warm fuzzy feeling seeing George care for the rich like this.

[DallasNE]

35. Narrative Has A Serious Factual Error

The payroll tax cuts are not part of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. They are part of the 2nd stimulus passed by President Obama and go mostly to the middle class. They, too, are set to expire at the end of the year.

In the link Bush was on message about the Bush tax cuts mostly impacting small businesses that create most of the jobs. What he left out is that those small businesses would have to have profits exceeding $1 million to be impacted at all. It would then be an additional 5% but only on profits that exceed $1 million. I don't have the figures in front of me but my guess is that the majority of these "S" Corporations have less than $1 million in profits.

[hue]

36. Ditto to all the remarks re:GWB above. Evil Incarnate!! n/t

[olddad56]

37. every stupid, corrupt, and criminal thing he was responsible for should bear his name.

like the Bush Wars. the Bush Terrorist Attack on the US, the Bush Financial Bailouts, Bush-Katrina, The Bush Economic Collapse, and on and on and on.

[Liberalynn]

38. Dumbya you are less than irrelevant!

Shut up!

[Swede Atlanta]

39. Well of course he is opposed to it....

we would be raising his taxes. He gets a gravy train pension from us, the taxpayers for being a flunky half-assed President. Then he rolls in the money from investments, etc. he inherited from his Nazi grandfather and his corrupt donors.

[librechik]

41. doesn't he remember those were temporary and meant to expire?

conveniently forgot about that and so many other things

[opihimoimoi]

42. Good...he comes back from under his rock to remind us of his terrible decisions that cost us 6

trillion $$$ and a recession so deep it will take a few years to recover from....its still hurtin us.

[Incitatus]

43. “I don’t think....and I don’t intend to do so" Bush said.

[0rganism]

44. keep on talking, W, keep on talking

anyone who's really missed the guy is welcome to him. For the rest of us, his voice should serve as a stark reminder of 8 long years of shame and despair.

[UpInArms]

45. “This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites.

I call you my base.” ~ George W. Bush

[LiberalFighter]

46. How about calling it the Enron Tax Cuts?

Or the Big Oil Tax Cuts?
Or Pay the Wars with Tax Cuts?
Or Tax Cuts for the Rich?
Or Tax Cuts to Help the Old Die Faster?

[Dont call me Shirley]

47. Call them what they are georgie "Welfare Checks To The Rich"

The real welfare queens: the top one-tenth of one percent which includes you and your entire extended (crime) family.

[xxqqqzme]

49. ...“If they were called some

other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.”

English is a hurtle he will never conquer.

I have trouble just reading his ramblings.

[Cleita]

50. Send him to the Hague.

He won't need his tax breaks when they are through with him.

[Solly Mack]

51. An admitted war criminal makes a statement about taxes.

Am I supposed to be outraged by what he said or his war crimes? (and the fact that he isn't in prison)

Gee..let me think.

[RedCloud]

52. "So-called"? WTF? WTF are they then, if not rich? Filthy hoarding ten trillion dollars rich?

[Faith No More]

53. Yes, and if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

hadn't been labeled "Obamacare" by your buddies at Fox News, there wouldn't be such an effort to repeal it either you spoiled, whining, little fratboy.

[Javaman]

54. This just in: george w. moron* is still an asshole. nt

[Major Hogwash]

55. Hahahahaha!!!!!

Fuck you Bush!!

[Orsino]

56. Orsino decries the corruption and nepotism of our so-called "leaders." n/t

[Hotler]

57. Eric Holder introduced the man, what the fuck??? He should..

have arrested him for war crimes, but now is not the time to point fingers.