Here is a clip that every Democrat, Republican and Independent that voted for Scott Brown who is on unemployment should take a pretty good look at
Make sure you get to the 1m40sec point of the video and you get Scotty boy claiming to have a “paid alternative” which includes extending tax cuts for the rich
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26…
so cutting taxes will pay for unemployment????
keep up the good work Scott…..you got Marty Meehan to give up on the plush UMass chancellor job to take a stab at you in 2012…….sorry Mike and Steve, move over for Marty
Please share widely!
When I click the MSNBC link, I get the Maddow clip from earlier this year when she played (and replayed, and replayed) the video that we made famous of Brown apparently questioning the marital status of Obama’s mother. Which I enjoyed seeing again, not least because the Maddow folks helpfully added “Blue Mass Group” to the top of the video! But I don’t think it’s the clip you had in mind.
David, I just checked it three times, and its spot on?
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p>Maybe I’m missing your sarcasm
Not sure what that was about. Carry on. đŸ™‚
Not to get into hygiene here, but you might want to clean your cache.
before you throw allegation. Sen Brown wants to give the unemployed benefits by using a portion of the budget allocated for something else, say, healthcare or defense? It is easy to give something of value ( unemployment dollars) to people without maing hard choices about how to pay for it. Adults make tough choices and Sen Brown is acting like an adult.
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p>Extending the Bush tax cut does not require borrowing from anyone. Simply make your currrent budget comply with current tax receipts. This is not rocket science. If you think you will have 10$ in tax receipts then cut your spending to 10$. Simple.
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p>You people act as if the money earned by sweat and smarts is your money, it isnt, earn your own money and give it all away if you like but dont steal other peoples money.
You say “do some research” but then present a poorly thought out knee-jerk sounding polemic.
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p>For example, “Extending the Bush tax cut does not require borrowing from anyone. Simply make your currrent budget comply with current tax receipts.” Uhh, what? How do tax cuts make the budget comply with tax receipts? Do you think that cutting taxes somehow magically causes needs or expenses to disappear? If there’s spending to be cut, it can be cut regardless of what the tax rate is, but obviously cutting the tax rate is doing to decrease revenue regardless of what we do with spending. They’re two separate things. This magical thinking you’re promoting – “don’t worry about revenue because the problem is spending” (followed by vague handwaving about what specific spending one is talking about) – is the reason we got into long term budget deficits, during the Bush administration. The very problem people who say what you say seem so obsessed with right now.
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p>Or for another example, take your last sentence, which reveals where you’re really coming from: content-free Libertarian posturing that makes no sense.
Brown objected to the #1 rated means of job growth, his reason is the “only if they don’t add to the deficit” hogwash. As Charley clearly noted in his comments, Brown doesn’t care about the deficit, he has no problem adding to it if it’s tax cuts to the wealthy.
The problem with the Bush tax cuts is that they were never paid for. The Republicans who pushed them through made no effort to cut the budget sufficiently to pay for the huge amount of lost revenue. Extending the tax cuts is tantamount to extending their irresponsible policies. I have yet to hear a single Republican explain how these tax cuts should be paid for, and you are no exception. It seems that to Republicans cutting taxes somehow magically does not impact revenue every bit as much as increasing spending does.
gp2b3a,
Tell me then, why is it tough for Republicans, including Scott Brown, to support extending tax cuts for those who need a tax cut? (By the way, I wish Nancy Pelosi in this lame duck would take seperate votes; 1 extending tax cuts for the middle and lower class and 1 for the wealthy)Why is it tough for Republicans to extend unemployment to those who need it? I’m sorry but when I look at my family members and friends who are unemployed and are hard working people, I wouldn’t give a second thought letting tax cuts expire for Warren Buffet, and turning around an extending them for the middle class
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p>Your argument is the typical talking points that Republicans utilize….”the tax and spend liberals want to take your money” when extending the tax cuts for wealthy will continue to drive up the deficit?
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p>On a side note, when are Democrats going to take back the communication advantage with our positions and why we best represent the middle class? (Maybe that will be the nexus of my next post)
I also notice on one of the local Boston news stations that the reporter stated a claim that extending unemployment coverage the Democrats’ way would add “Trillions” to the debt. Was it a slip of the tongue, or just repeating some misinformation that worms its way into the public consciousness?
that David Stockman, the guy who authored the Reagan tax cuts, doesn’t believe in extending the Bush tax cuts. He like anyone who is thinking about practical economics rather than ideology, understands that the demonstrable increase in wealth disparity in this country is not good for the economy.
And on a related topic, remember back in June when Scott Brown, a pivotal vote on financial reform, was insisting that the legislation allow banks to invest their profits in hedge funds? As Charley wrote in this post, he was acting on behalf of State Street Bank’s interests.
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p>And so today we have the news that State Street Bank, which has been reporting good financial health, is going to cut 400 Massachusetts jobs despite its new profits, in order to “infuse the company with a greater sense of urgency.”
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p>I myself have a greater sense of urgency about 2012.
Did he sound dumb.
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p>Must be nice to not have immediate family members suffering with job loss.
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p>Massachusetts deserves a US Senator who puts human beings ahead of rigid ideology. Your “free market”, “no new taxes” ideology and Piontkowski patronage are nothing but smog.
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p>Bring on Rachel Maddow or Vicki Kennedy – 2012!
We should be ringing Scott Brown’s phone off the hook. 202-224-4543. Tell him to read the CBO report on the effectiveness of various actions to create jobs, especially extending unemployed benefits (very effective) and extending the Bush tax cuts (not so much). Make sure he knows what his constituents think.
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p>The Republicans in the senate now say they will block all action on other legislation until the tax cuts for the rich are extended. Let Sen. Brown know there will be consequences for supporting this position.
We are seeing genuine class warfare in action.
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p>We Democrats need to end our denial about the reality of the on-going assault against 99% of our population.
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p>It’s time to hit the streets. Picket lines. Civil disobedience. Phone calls aren’t enough.
Rule number one: If it is a tax cut it is fiscally responsible and necessary, especially if it is for the wealthy.
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p>Rules number two through ninety-nine simply repeat rule number one.