Reid to GOP negotiators: “You’re doing it wrong”

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement today:

“To protect millionaires, Speaker Boehner’s offer would force middle class families to pay higher taxes. Raising taxes on the middle class is bad policy and flunks the test of balance. To protect the middle class while reducing the deficit, simple math dictates that tax rates must rise on the top two percent of taxpayers next year. The sooner Republicans grasp that reality, the sooner we can avoid the fiscal cliff.

“Democrats are willing to compromise, but any agreement must protect the middle class. We have also been clear that we have no intention of kicking the can down the road. Not only does Speaker Boehner’s proposal delay revenues into 2013, it sets up another destructive fight over the debt ceiling first thing next year.

“Republicans have made an offer, but now it is time for them to get serious about forging a balanced approach.”

Reid manages (like DWS) to repeat buzz words into his talking points and to say absolutely nothing of consequence.

The middle class will be the next target for raising “revenue” (a la tax increases) because eventually the Dem spending spree will of necessity mean that those taxes will have to go up.

Boehner is going to have to work in the phrases “middle class” and “balanced approach” in a convincing way to demonstrate that the current tax rates must be maintained (in fact, made permanent) in order to assure balance, fairness, and justice to all taxpayers, or that the taxes will have to go up for all for the same ends.

With his reference to a coming “destructive fight,” Reid has indicated that he has no intention of setting a limit on the debt ceiling and thus no intention of cutting government growth at all.

onlineanalyst on December 3, 2012 at 9:43 PM