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Video: Dem Majority Leader Ducks Question on Taxes

By: Jason Mattera (Diary)  |  October 13th, 2010 at 02:45 PM  | 

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When Speaker Nancy Pelosi cast the deciding vote to adjourn the House until after the midterm elections, it was a vote for tax increases. As we reported on HUMAN EVENTS, there were 39 Democrats ready and willing to vote to maintain the tax rates at the current levels. But Pelosi balked at such a choice, thus shielding her party from a tough vote in an election cycle where news grows worse for the Democrats by the day. Effective on January 1, 2011, every income bracket, not just the much-maligned “rich,” will see their taxes go sky high.

The dirty little secret is that Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team could call the House back into session tomorrow in order to ensure that taxes are not raised. But will they?

HUMAN EVENTS approached House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer leaving a D.C. fundraiser and asked why he lacked the courage to bring members back from recess and vote on whether or not to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. Americans deserve to know, with an up-or-down vote, which House members favor increased taxes and which do not.

As you’ll see in this video exchange, Hoyer doesn’t even have the courage for an honest conversation, let alone the stones necessary to break the adjournment and vote to keep the tax rates from surging up.

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Steny’s too busy pulling in cash at his swanky Washington fundraisers than to worry about halting a massive tax increase on the rest of us little people. Ah, Obama’s America!

Cross-posted from Human Events

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  • fpete13527

    Stenzy Wenzy doesn’t doesn’t sound like he wants to be speaker much on this issue.

    Forget responsibility to the American people….just raise money to keep the DemComms like Rengel and Waters in office

  • tomato

    A Democrat “doesn

    • davesinsanantonio

      speak the truth, stand up for what is right, state one’s position clearly, vote for what is best for the country, etc. Only a weasel will pass off his own voting record as “we’re going to do that”, or letting everyone’s taxes go up as “I’m concerned about the American people.”!
      We have to get these weasels, and the spineless RINOs who cooperate with them, out of office to save this country. Then we have to hold the feet of their replacements to the fire to make sure they reverse all these bad laws, and that we never let them put us in such a position ever again.
      WE THE PEOPLE are still in charge of making it work. We can no longer trust politicians to do it for us. WE THE PEOPLE have to do it for ourselves, and make our representatives actually represent us and vote for what is best for US, and not for themselves.

      • tomato

        My reply is esoteric. My point is many are not brave enough or are too caught up with the culture. Asking a DC politician to take in less, spend less, and give up power is as counter-culture as lying for you and me. But you are correct, he should come out and say it, “Hey, we need you to give us more of your money!”

        Without naming, history is full of large, powerful governments. An entity so strong, no individual questioning the intent or direction of the nation. A politician for a large Republic should speak the truth. One from a larger, more powerful government would not. To me, that is the norm. Why should he? We are his subjects, truth shall not be wasted on the meek.

        Or a simpler answer: Hoyer is more afraid of Pelosi than anything on Earth.

    • edintexas

      When the Bush tax rate reduction was passed, the Republicans didn’t have the 60 votes in the Senate to pass it with no restrictions. So they had to go the same route that the Dems considered taking with Obamacare, reconciliation. The problem with the reconciliation process (which is appropriate for tax bills, since it is supposed to be restricted to finance issues) is that the bill which passes by reconciliation must, in accordance with “The Byrd Rule”, Sunset and any budget resolution which does not have a sunset provision must pass by 60 votes.

      • tomato

        I remember the parliamentary hopscotch,
        If the argument is “Getting 10 years was better than nothing.” then I suggest embracing the new/old tax rates. Because we all knew this was coming. But no one is – because its a “tax hike” not a “tax restore”. The history, though interesting is lost. The simple narrative is, my taxes are going up, a lot. during a recession.

        At the risk of giving away ideas, if this is known as the “Bush tax cuts” and he is responsible for the sunset, why isn’t this known as the “Bush tax hike?”

  • Lock_Piatt

    Why comment on taxes when you believe they only apply to Rich Republicans – Rangel, Geithner, Waters do not need to pay or get prosecuted by the IRS and DOJ for tax evasion.

  • banzaibob

    Vote him out of office to join the rest of the unemployed. That will wipe the smile off his face.