Boehner Warns Obama on Tax Increase

[ProSense]

Boehner Warns Obama on Tax Increase

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

House Speaker John A. Boehner will issue a warning Tuesday to President Obama a day before the president is set to deliver a major speech on the nation’s deficit: Raising taxes is “unacceptable and a nonstarter.”

Mr. Boehner plans to issue the warning in a statement Tuesday afternoon, according to a copy of the statement The Caucus obtained. In it, Mr. Boehner says Republicans are “open to hearing” proposals from Mr. Obama about dealing with Medicare and other entitlements that reduce the nation’s long-term debt.

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“We don’t have deficits because Americans are taxed too little, we have deficits because Washington spends too much,” Mr. Boehner says in the statement. “And, at a time when the American people face skyrocketing prices at the pump, energy tax hikes are a particularly bad idea.”

Mr. Boehner’s statement arrives just hours after Mr. Obama invited the Speaker and other Congressional leaders to a pre-speech discussion at the White House Wednesday. Mr. Obama’s top aides have said the president plans to engage the topic of entitlement reform directly but also will suggest that part of the solution should include an end to the George Bush era tax cuts.

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Uh oh, the "skilled legislator" who recently made a "fool" of President Obama has spoken. Game over!!!

[flamingdem]

1. Boehner can cry all he wants, the American people want to tax the rich nt

[Andy823]

4. That's right!

And since he is "ALWAYS" saying they are doing what the "PEOPLE" want them to do, he better listen up! I heard last night it was something like 85% of the country wants tax raised on the rich to help balance the budget, and they don't want congress messing with their SS or medicare!

[woodsprite]

2. and Washington spends the (our) money subsidizing rich people!

This is our way of recouping some of our losses.

[FrenchieCat]

3. I have an Idea.....

Why don't WE THE PEOPLE warn Boehner?

Sometimes I wish that we had a spine....us....the people who are always talking,
to actually take action and kick this man in his mouth just after he's opened it.

[woodsprite]

6. The first thing that came to my mind was walloping the tear jerk

upside the head with a dead tuna to try to knock some sense into him. Don't know why! Just that kinda day I guess.

[flamingdem]

14. How about a nice sushi meal, caught in Fukushima waters

Of course then we'd just get Eric Cantor... arrg

[buddysmellgood]

5. The people we plan to tax don't worry about gas prices.

[woodsprite]

7. Yeah, they worry about their wives not having 250 mill to play banker with.

[GOTV]

8. The skilled negotiators who ...

... asked for 32 billion

and somehow got 38 billion

[ProSense]

9. Yup,

$38 billion!

CBS: Budget deal details: Cuts that aren't quite cuts

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Among the cuts:

$700 million from clean and safe drinking water programs;
$390 million from heating subsidies;
$276 million from pandemic flu prevention programs; and
$1.5 billion from the president's new $8 billion initiative to spur high-speed rail development.

Many of the cuts appear to have been cuts in name only, because they came from programs that had unspent funds.

For example, $1.7 billion left over from the 2010 census; $3.5 billion in unused children's health insurance funds; $2.2 billion in subsidies for health insurance co-ops (that's something the president's new health care law is going to fund anyway); and $2.5 billion from highway programs that can't be spent because of restrictions set by other legislation.

About $10 billion of the cuts comes from targeting appropriations accounts previously used by lawmakers for so-called earmarks - pet projects like highways, water projects, community development grants and new equipment for police and fire departments. Republicans had already engineered a ban on earmarks when taking back the House this year.

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For example, the final cuts in the deal are advertised as $38.5 billion less than was appropriated in 2010, but after removing rescissions, cuts to reserve funds, and reductions in mandatory spending programs, discretionary spending will be reduced only by $14.7 billion.

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[Blaukraut]

10. Boehner knows a tax increase won't happen until at least Dec. 2012

So he can posture like that now. Even when the extension of the bush tax cuts runs out, it remains to be seen it they are allowed to expire. If we win back the House, they probably will be. If not, it's up to the Senate - IF we keep control of it. Again, if not, there is only one more possibility A bill that is likely to emerge that will make these cuts permanent has to be vetoed by President Obama. We'll see how it turns out.

[paparush]

11. We currently have deficits because Bush nearly bankrupted the country.

Thank you, ignorant, soaked in denial, Republicans.

[Turbineguy]

12. "I'm warning you!"

We only do spending increases counter-offset by tax cuts!

[Tx4obama]

13. I saw a poll yesterday that said 81% of Americans want to tax the rich n/t

[vaberella]

16. Yup..I think that was on Tweety's show too.

Means nothing. The Teaparty knows better. And it means tax breaks for the rich, because the rich will save America.

[and-justice-for-all]

15. Obama needs to hand that clown his ass..nt

[Safetykitten]

18. And monkeys need to fly out of my...

[vroomvroom]

17. And you can bet good money Obama will Listen to them...again!

[OmahaBlueDog]

19. Warn Boehner back - it's time for America's wealthy elite to kick in

If the Republicans are serious about debt and deficit eradication, increased revenue is part of the solution. Tell the orange gentleman from Ohio to listen to Dave Ramsey sometime. What does he tell people with debt issues? Get a second job (i.e. increase income) and cut spending.

Tell Boehner this also. If we can balance the budget and start paying down the debt now, in 20-30years, all of America can get a huge tax break from the savings on the debt service.