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Tag Archives: bush tax cuts
GOP Senate Candidate:”Bush Tax Cuts Terrible Economic Policy”
Courtesy of The Uptake: GOP Senate Candidate:”Bush Tax Cuts Terrible Economic Policy” from The UpTake. Like this? Watch the latest episode of The UpTake on Blip! http://blip.tv/the-uptake/watch Republican candidate for Minnesota’s US Senate seat Kurt Bills surprised even his Democratic opponent Senator Amy Klobuchar when he called the Bush era tax cuts “terrible economic policy”. “You don’t put temporary tax cuts in. What are you doing? You can’t do that” Bills said in a debate with Klobuchar. After the debate Klobuchar told The UpTake’s Mike McIntee she was “surprised” by Bills’ statement because in June he signed the Grover Nordquist pledge to not raise taxes. Revoking the Bush tax cuts would be a tax increase. Klobuchar generally supports the Obama administration plan to let the … Continue reading
Posted in Election 2012, Minnesota Politics, Politics, Youtube Video
Tagged bush tax cuts, conservative, economy, elections, Kurt Bills, minnesota, politics, republican, republican party, Taxes, tea party, the uptake, Uptake, video
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Senator Franken: What The United States Should And Shouldn’t Do About Our Debt Crisis
Senator Franken took to the floor of the United States Senate this week to give some background on our debt crisis and offer advice on how we should solve that crisis. We have to raise our debt ceiling, says Franken, because we have obligations that we MUST meet: Franken goes on to explain that the debt ceiling is being “held hostage” by Republicans so that they can end medicare as we know it: Couldn’t we get rid of oil subsidies for companies making record profits, asks Senator Franken, rather than punish those who rely on programs such as Medicaid: An “exquisitely incomprehensible economic theory“: “The investments we made in the 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s in science and technology and infrastructure was the … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Federal Budget, National Politics, Taxes, US Senate, Youtube Video
Tagged al franken, budget, budget taxes, bush tax cuts, congress, congress and the debt-ceiling, conservative, Debt, debt and jobs, debt ceiling, debt crisis, debt talks, deficit, democratic party, jobs, medicaid, medicare, politics, republican, republican party, senator franken, tax, Taxes, tea party, video
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