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Senate's Reid prepares bill with $250,000 tax-hike threshold
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Friday he was preparing legislation to prevent middle-class tax hikes for a possible vote by Monday even as he negotiates with top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell for a larger deal to avert the looming "fiscal cliff."
"At President Obama's request, I am readying a bill for a vote by Monday that will prevent a tax hike on middle-class families making up to $250,000, and that will include the additional, critical provisions outlined by President Obama," Reid said in a statement. "In the next 24 hours, I look forward to hearing any good-faith proposals Senator McConnell has for altering this bill."
(Editing by Peter Cooney)
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If our government was being run by practical people, taxes on the wealthy would have gone up. We now have some of the lowest taxes among all developed nations and it shows. Our infrastructure is suffering, our schools are suffering, our healthcare system is suffering, our Middle Class is dying, and we have a mountain of debt. Republicans answer is simply to cut programs and services that help the American people. A better approach would be to raise taxes on those who can afford it, cut spending on programs and services that will cause the least amount of harm, and to find ways of doing what government does more efficiently, like healthcare.
Investing in our country works better than not investing in our country. The Chinese have figured that out and have recently christened a new high-speed rail train. We should do that, but the Republicans won’t let us do things like that anymore. And it’s going to get worse.
No government run by practical, intelligent people would dare allow a healthcare system like ours to exist. On one hand the Republicans say they’re about fiscal responsibility, yet they refuse to change the world’s most inefficient healthcare system. They even passed a bill that forbids Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. If the Republicans really were about responsible budgeting, why wouldn’t they pursue lowing the cost of drug prices for Medicare? It’s because they’re really about serving the rich plutocrats who have taken over our government. The pharmaceutical industries told the Republicans to put that into law to increase their profits. And the Republicans did it, at our expense.
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