Broken record brigade begins: Gingrich: Obama tax plan a job killer

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Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Wednesday blasted a budget address by President Barack Obama calling it a job-killer and not a serious proposal.

The former U.S. House speaker, in Atlanta scooping up money for his likely White House bid, told The Associated Press that Obama's new proposal to couple spending cuts with tax hikes on the wealthy was "a job-killing big-government defending avoidance of responsibility."

"To propose some $2 trillion worth of tax increases in an economy such as this is to claim the Herbert Hoover award," Gingrich said. Hoover was president when the Great Depression began.
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Wednesday night's fundraiser was hosted by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and two former governors — Republican Sonny Perdue and Democrat Zell Miller. Only Deal was on hand at the upscale Atlanta hotel.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110414/ap_on_el_ge/us_gingrich2012

A very predictable group.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. You want to oppose something a Democrat proposes

just label it a "job killer" and that should be the end of the "debate" (for them anyway). *ugh*

[indepat]

2. Heads-up to Newtie baby: Ryan's tax plan is a people killer and a fat-cat

stocking, er pocket stuffer. :patriot:

[bloomington-lib]

3. Wasn't Hoover a Republican?

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4. Yes

Prior to the start of the Great Depression, Hoover's first Treasury Secretary, Andrew Mellon, proposed and saw enacted, numerous tax cuts, which cut the top income tax rate from 73% to 24% (under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge). When combined with the sharp decline in incomes during the early depression, the result was a serious deficit in the federal budget. Congress, desperate to increase federal revenue, enacted the Revenue Act of 1932, which was the largest peacetime tax increase in history. The Act increased taxes across the board, so that top earners were taxed at 63% on their net income. The 1932 Act also increased the tax on the net income of corporations from 12% to 13.75%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover

:think:

[eridani]

5. Hey, shitforbrains! How come NO NET JOB GAIN in 10 years--

--from your useless parasitic tax cuts?

[OHdem10]

6. Duers How can we get some version out in the public and repeated

over and over?

If taxcuts for the Have Mores created jobs, with
all the cuts and waivers(paying taxes) given during
the Republican Reign we should have so many jobs we
would be importing workers.

GWB told us this over and over as he cut taxes more
than once. This will create jobs.

In 2003 just before the Christmas Recess the Republicans
gave 139 Billion, I say Billion as a Christmas Gift
to Big Corps. Jobs were created in Tehran, China,
Asia. 139 Billion Taxpayers money given to help
businesses. I only complain because they celebrate
giving our money to Corporations but begrudge any
red cent to the needy.

[Shiver]

8. I've started calling them the 'Baby-Killing Bush Tax Cuts'.

It's not technically a lie... :evilgrin:

[applegrove]

7. Corporations are sitting on their American money and not creating jobs in the USA!!!