No Senate Republicans back Obama tax plan - spokesman

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 | Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:33pm EDT

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Senate have enough votes to block President Barack Obama's plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class while allowing those on the richest Americans to expire, a senior Senate Republican spokesman said on Monday.

"There are no Republicans who support a tax hike and there is a growing chorus of Democrats who oppose it as well," said Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

Stewart declined to say whether Senate Republicans would actually block action on the plan.

(Reporting by Andy Sullivan)

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minuteman wrote:
No patriotic American can possibly support the “New Order” Obama is trying to impose upon America. Socialism and socialist ideology is a direct conflict with a country that has been establish under a free market system; individual rights; freedoms of choice; limited democratic powers. Party does not matter in this case. The principles of the founding fathers does and Obama is the odd man out. He is pure ideolog boshevik that is manisfested himself by lies and misrepresentation of who and what he was.
November we have an opportunity to turn America back and eject these socialist from our system of government.

Sep 13, 2010 1:06pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
minuteman wrote:
Socialist demonize success that does not depend upon a nanny government for subsistance. Wealth redistribution is the heart of socialism. It enables everyone to become poor, without any ambition or incentive to achieve. Obama’s call for class warfare demonstrates his willingness to sacrifice success for reduced standards of living and government dependence for subsistance.
To villify the wealthy for having pulled themselves out of poverty by their boot straps and make a success is the height of arrogance on Obamas part. Punishing success is unAmerican and smacks of a leader that is demented and has a poor view point about what America stands for and can accomplish.

Sep 13, 2010 1:10pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
Cru wrote:
You’d have to be insane to think that getting the wealthiest bracket to pay their original tax rate is “Wealth redistribution” or “Demonizing success”

If you’re really successful, your money isn’t being derived solely from earned income. It comes from investments and capital gains like dividends from stock ownership.

This silly game of “poor mr. rich guy” is taking America hook line and sinker to the very food lines they claim to fear, but will move out of the country long before deigning to stand in.

Sep 13, 2010 1:19pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
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