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- McConnell is a fraud. Totally against raising taxes on millionaires but aghast at Obama's spending. The GOP is full of jerks and nitwits like McConnell. Taxes are at a 60-year low. And interest, dividend, and capital gains are taxed at less than 20%. Most very rich people get a lot of their income on those things, and they pay less than the rest of us. Wage war on the rich.
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- .......Let's start with that useless $850 billion tax cut for the rich.
McConnell is about as useful as a used condom.-Come to think of it, he looks like one.... - Reply to this comment
- Any party that gives tax breaks to millionaires is NOT serious about balancing the budget.
There will be no middle class in a few years to support the rich. Poor people don't pay enough taxes to support the rest of the country. - Reply to this comment
- This from the party that insisted on giving tax breaks to billionaires...
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- Let's look at who is buying Mitch McConnell from the Center for Responsive Politics.
McConnell gets a lot of his contributions from lawyers real estate speculators, and the Israeli lobby. Additional contributors include the insurance, oil and gas, commercial banks, and the mining industries. He also gets a lot of money from lobbyists.
McConnell's individual contributors include Brown-Forman Corporation, Kindred Healthcare, UBS AG, Humana Inc., Peabody Energy, Citigroup Inc., Blue Cross/Blue shield, UPS, and FedEx.
Looking at this list, you can see why Mitch McConnell hates Obama and health care reform. You can also see the reasons Mitch wants to shut down Medicare and the EPA. It's all about the folks who are paying his salary.
Basically, Mitch McConnell finds nothing wrong with using the government to aid the needy, but if it comes to helping the Middle Class or the needy. Then we need to shut it down.
If McConnell serious about balancing the budget, let's eliminate all the tax breaks for the rich. Let's eliminate tax breaks for corporations that off-shore jobs overseas. During the Eisenhower era, the top 1% paid about 88% of their wealth in taxes, so taxing the rich does not bring wealth or prosperity. If the rich have less money to spend, they won't spend so much time bribing two-bit politicians, like Mitch McConnell - Reply to this comment
- McConnell said, "I've a number of conversations with people who count at the White House, and I think that so far I don't see the level of seriousness that we need."
Mitch McConnell...why don't you ask your fellow GOPhers about their
"level of seriousness" about cutting the budget?? Just this week the Repubs voted UNANIMOUSLY against a Democrat proposal to eliminate over $40 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies to big oil companies...who do not need to be subsidized at all. They voted against this cut in order to protect their precious campaign contributions from big oil. You, nor they, care one iota about what's best for America as a whole...it's all about you, and frankly it's despicable. - Reply to this comment
- Most americans DO NOT care what you think about the president, OLD RICH WHITE MAN!! You benefitted from the tax breaks that Obama extended for you and your cronies. Now, you want him to screw us over by putting our social security benefits that we EARNED, into corporate hands! SITCHOAZZDOWN clown!
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- Wanna get serious about the deficit? LET THE BUSH TAX CUTS EXPIRE!.... and how about cutting military spending on contracted wars in the middle east?
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- Entitlements are the ones driving us to debt. It's nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. Pass the liability on to the next generation.
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- It depends where you make the cuts, cut the EPA and SEC to allow more of your rich friends to loot and pollute, then call it savings. No one in their right mind thinks allowing crooks to loot the banks and Wall Street causing another crash is really wise.
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