Senate Democrats block a vote on Obama's tax proposals

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In a shocking repudiation of President Obama’s “soak the rich” economic plans, Senate Democrats today blocked a vote on President Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on those earning more than $250,000 per year. Senate Republicans had proposed an immediate vote on the measure. In fact, they proposed two votes: one to extend the Bush tax cuts in their totality, the other to raise taxes as per Obama’s plan. “My recommendation is we give the president what he asked for,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) explained, “It’s mind-boggling to me, Senate democratic leadership turned down an opportunity to vote on President Obama’s tax increase bill …it tells us that the president’s tax increase plan is not just an economic disaster, it’s a political loser. And they know it. It tells us in spite of the big talking from the president’s Chicago reelection campaign about evil Republicans who want to extend all of the 2001 and 2003 tax relief, vulnerable members of the Senate’s Democratic conference do not want to be anywhere near the president’s tax increase alternative.”

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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So what kind of massive spending cuts were part of the proposal?

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A Democratic leadership aide said a vote will ultimately come on the president’s proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 during the current work period. But but they believe first the Senate should pass the small business tax cut bill. They characterize the Republicans move today as a “thinly disguised filibuster” to use as an excuse to oppose a small business tax cut Republicans are “afraid” to oppose on substance.