Pelosi and Democrats surrender on taxes

[Quantum Windbag]

Pissing off progressives.

House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, responding to an expected acceleration of John Boehner’s timeline on the Bush tax cuts, fired off a letter to the Speaker asking for immediate consideration of an extension of just the “low end” tax cuts – which include the Bush-era marginal rates for households making up to $1 million. This represents a shift in the dividing line for the Bush tax cuts, which has traditionally been at $250,000.
The Bush tax cuts at every level up to $1 million in annual income, in other words, are now framed as “middle-income tax cuts.” She says it right here in the letter:

Without further delay, the Majority Leadership should schedule a vote on extension of the middle-income tax cuts, as early as next week, to increase certainty for millions of American taxpayers and for the economy. We should not delay passing this legislation that will help afford all Americans the opportunity to reach their goals and realize the promise of the American Dream.
We must ask the very wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. Democrats believe that tax cuts for those earning over a million dollars a year should expire and that we should use the resulting revenues to pay down the deficit.

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Pelosi Shifts the Goalposts – Now Draws Line on Bush Tax Cuts at $1 Million | FDL News Desk

Does this mean the Republicans are actually winning the debate?

 

[francoHFW]

No compromise, "un-American" Tea Party GOP. Ideological diocy.

This ain't new.

 

[Claudette]

Funny when the Dems go for something its "compromise."

When the GOP goes for something its "obstruction."