Republicans Refuse to Negotiate With "The Hostage"

[Independent thinker]

As long as raising taxes on the wealthy is totally off the table then pulling the rug out from under the needy should be off limits as well.

The wealthy are already paying the huge majority of the federal income taxes collected.

Who Pays Income Taxes?

(PDF) updated April 2026 In 2025, Congress locked in key provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Yet, debates over the tax code rage on. Calls for new wealth taxes and higher rates on top earners have intensified, as the federal government continues to...

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[occupied]

Meh, the free shit army leaches don't vote gop anyway.

We already knew you want to see people suffer. No way to do it without ******* over the republican voter base though.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Biden did say that. Now they are negotiating and it's the hard right refusing to. It's political theater. Yes, they should have solved this months ago.

But re-elect them we will.

If Biden gets the Dems to go along, he won't need the hard right.

 

[1srelluc]

We already knew you want to see people suffer. No way to do it without ******* over the republican voter base though.

I'd be OK with just seeing you suffer.

 

[pknopp]

If Biden gets the Dems to go along, he won't need the hard right.

Yes but then McCarthy loses his job.

 

[occupied]

The wealthy are already paying the huge majority of the federal income taxes collected.

Who Pays Income Taxes?

(PDF) updated April 2026 In 2025, Congress locked in key provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Yet, debates over the tax code rage on. Calls for new wealth taxes and higher rates on top earners have intensified, as the federal government continues to...

www.ntu.org

No imaginable level of taxation threatens to make any wealthy person destitute. Cutting social programs does exactly that.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Yes but then McCarthy loses his job.

That'd be horrible for Biden.

 

[Ralph Norton]

Gaetz is saying the quiet part out loud.

Republicans consider the economy (and the American people) as their hostage

House Republicans Pretty Much Admit They Are Taking Debt Limit ‘Hostage’

Rep. Matt Gaetz used the “h-word,” but Speaker Kevin McCarthy and negotiators also said Democrats should be happy with getting little else out of the talks.

www.huffpost.com

"Pretty much" admit means they didn't admit.
But hey, if Huffington Post says it, it must be true.

 

[pknopp]

That'd be horrible for Biden.

But that's why McCarthy wouldn't bring it up for a vote.

 

[1srelluc]

No imaginable level of taxation threatens to make any wealthy person destitute. Cutting social programs does exactly that.

They should learn to code like tater said of the pipeline workers.

 

[SeaMajor7]

How do you negotiate with HOSTAGE TAKERS??

We are all HOSTAGES under this usurper administration!!!!

 

[occupied]

I'd be OK with just seeing you suffer.

Of course. Republicans have to get their sadism fix from everything they do.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

But that's why McCarthy wouldn't bring it up for a vote.

Biden had better get in there and negotiate then.

 

[Dragonlady]

These stunts always makes them look callous towards the needy, suckups to the rich and reckless with the economy. Not sure why they do it.

Well, considering that they coach all of their speeches about the debt limits in terms of unlimited spending by the Democrats, and fiscal responsibility on their part, and add in that their voters are never gonna fact check anything they tell them, they think this is a winning strategy with the base.

The problem is that their bases, less than 25% of the voting public. And it’s gonna take an awful lot more to convince independent voters that none of this is the Republicans’ fault.

Republicans may be corrupt and not very bright, but at least they know who their voters are.

 

[Dadoalex]

It was and is BIDEN that openly stated that HE WON'T NEGOTIATE!!!!!!!
The OP is PROJECTING that upon the GOP, but they did their job and PASSED a budget bill.

Then what are the negotiations?

GOP wants to protect wealthy White people.
BUT
When Joe invokes the 14th and the GOP looks like the plumber who forgot to block off the toilet I shall enjoy the laugh.

 

[pknopp]

Biden had better get in there and negotiate then.

Biden has no say in what gets to the House floor for a vote.

But Biden has been negotiating (finally).

 

[Dragonlady]

I'd be OK with just seeing you suffer.

Republican cruelty is a feature, not a bug.

 

[1srelluc]

Of course. Republicans have to get their sadism fix from everything they do.

What's wrong, don't want to take one for Team Tater?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Then what are the negotiations?

GOP wants to protect wealthy White people.
BUT
When Joe invokes the 14th and the GOP looks like the plumber who forgot to block off the toilet I shall enjoy the laugh.

Joe can't even count to 14.

 

[1srelluc]

Republican cruelty is a feature, not a bug.

Thanks.