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Started our second simultaneous war in 2003. why would we need to do anything about taxes to pay for that? tax cuts are free! down is up, night is day, the jets are going to the super bowl. it s nonsense. but they have believed and argued that nonsense now for years. for all of the mess in washington right now and all of the specifically republican mess in washington right now, i am here to tell you that republicans have apparently given up on that particular part of their nonsensical mess. president bush s tax cuts were not paid for. they were anticipated to be grown out of. these are not anticipated to be grown out of. cbo has already said 3.967. in other words, $4 trillion will be added to the debt over ten years with this tax cut unless we do some spending cuts to help offset it. hey, that s who congressional republicans put out to talk about the whole tax cut deal that just passed. and his argument is the bush tax cuts were not paid for. ....
Started our second simultaneous war in 2003. why would we need to do anything about taxes to pay for that? tax cuts are free! down is up, night is day, the jets are going to the super bowl. it s nonsense. but they have believed and argued that nonsense now for years. for all of the mess in washington right now and all of the specifically republican mess in washington right now, i am here to tell you that republicans have apparently given up on that particular part of their nonsensical mess. president bush s tax cuts were not paid for. they were anticipated to be grown out of. these are not anticipated to be grown out of. cbo has already said 3.967. in other words, $4 trillion will be added to the debt over ten years with this tax cut unless we do some spending cuts to help offset it. hey, that s who congressional republicans put out to talk about the whole tax cut deal that just passed. and his argument is the bush tax cuts were not paid for. ....
Why would we need to do anything about taxes to pay for that? tax cuts are free! down is up, night is day, the jets are going to the super bowl. it s nonsense. but they have believed and argued that nonsense now for years. for all of the mess in washington right now and all of the specifically republican mess in washington right now, i am here to tell you that republicans have apparently given up on that particular part of their nonsensical mess. president bush s tax cuts were not paid for. they were anticipated to be grown out of. these are not anticipated to be grown out of. cbo has already said 3.967. in other words, $4 trillion will be added to the debt over ten years with this tax cut unless we do some spending cuts to help offset it. hey, that s who congressional republicans put out to talk about the whole tax cut deal that just passed. and his argument is the bush tax cuts were not paid for. and boy were those bush tax cuts expensive. and we need to come up with ....
Spending. how do voters feel about additional spending? they think it is nuts. only money teen% think it is a good idea to reduce spending. this is very consistent with a long-held american belief to lower that the lower government spending will improve the economy. joy so the fiscal cliff we are zeroing down about three weeks now to go. january 1st. do people believe a middle class tax cut deal is likely dism is likely? if nothing happens and the congress and the president don t reach a deal, a little spending will actually grow slower than it was planned to. and middle class taxes will go up. six out of 10 people say if a deal is reached, middle class taxes will go up anyhow and they don t expect to see spending cuts. there is a lot of skepticism, and even if there is a tax hike of any kind in this ....
Not raising taxes. you d walk away on the 10-1 deal? [ applause ] all right. just to bring everybody up to speed, remember in 2011, republicans would not take a 10 to 1 tax cut deal. now today mitch mcconnell is willing to do a 1 to 1 deal. republicans lost all of their leverage in this election. they made a big gamble and came up empty handed. in 2011 president obama was cutting deals with john boehner on the golf course. it was very favorable for the republicans. the president agreed to more than a trillion dollars in cuts, benefit reductions of social security, raising the medicare eligibility age and actually lowering tax rates on the wealthiest americans. now in the end, republicans, what do they do? they rejected the deal. they wanted more and the way to ....