House Democrats Reject Tax Plan Unless Changed

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It's a bad bill! Furthermore, There are Millions of 99ers who can't find jobs... .what happened to helping them out??! And giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires doesn't create jobs, i.e. Trickle down economics is a farse!

HopeforAmerica of WA 12:54AM December 13, 2010

If this is the only thing holding working together we should fire the bunch and have another election.
In Michigan I don't even have a vote about the Democratic representative
I am 78 with 8 children, 20 grandchildren and heading for the seventh great gradchild.
We need more americans running our country.
Jack Brehmer

jack brehmer of MI 2:02PM December 11, 2010

The dems are holding out for the riders on the bill, make no mistake about it. Til this is done, there will be so many earmarks on this bill, the riders will cost more than the bill itself. It's all a ruse to get the $ to take home and find favor with the constituents to salvage some political careers.

Vinoman of PA 7:18AM December 11, 2010

I benefited very little fromthe Bush tax cuts. I guess the ones who will be hurt the most will be people making between $100,000 and $200,000 a year.

Jack Golding of KS 3:42PM December 10, 2010

Four years of controlling the national budget (not two as they admit), few with any real tax, business or private experience, and waiting until their majority is in a lame duck session. Now, when many of them have been removed from office, they are saying no to ALL businesses and anyone who gets or gives a paycheck, and fail to comprehend their inaction on the entire economy and all employers/employees. The real party of NO, rejects the what the American public demanded in the last election, get the to the table and hammer out a compromise that is acceptable to the majority not necessarily the liberals. If a Republican screws up they go to prison, like Randy Cunningham. If Charlie Rangel screws up -"he only broke the house rules- he did nothing wrong". Yet they continue to blame someone else - the republicans - for their own inability to work together. For Pelosi, et al, the real agenda must be to expand the unemployment roles and hope that the unemployed will be their meal ticket.

JS of NY 11:25AM December 10, 2010

Why not let it expire? I was the beneficiary of an extended unemployment benefit when Ike was President but then I did not vote for Ike. I will bet a lot of those who are elligible for an extension did not vote for Obama nor the Democrats so what politically will the Dems gain by acceeding to an exorbitant break for the rich and driving us farther in debt?
The "party of no" will simply blame the Dems for an Obama
tax cut that drove us farther in Debt. Let the new Speaker worry about it in January. They will not pass anything exhorbitant to hurt the middle class as hopefully Obama will use the veto pen or the Dems in the Senate will incorporate the McConnel/Demint/ Kyle "Prussian Veto "tatic and block it.

Teacher (ret.) of MI 11:14AM December 10, 2010

What you people don't understand is most people with that kind of money have an insurance policy on their estate specifically for paying the estate tax so their heirs don't have to. It is a scam. It just means the heirs get to keep more money that they have not earned.
Jeugenen of MA you should really should not go off your medicine because advocating for the death of a person is contemptible. I guess that is something Teabaggers just don't understand as they are all for death to anyone who doesn't agree with them that we should go back to the 18th Century. Serfdom to all say the Teabaggers, except if you are rich!

Tree Hugger of CO 10:34AM December 10, 2010

Who is the party of NO now?

Citizen of WI 10:34AM December 10, 2010

THE GOVERNMENT GIVES AWAY ONLY WHAT IT HAS PREVIOUSLY TAKEN FROM SOMEONE ELSE.

GARY SCOTT of TX 9:59AM December 10, 2010

I like the man and his family as persons, but this is one more piece of evidence that our president is not seasoned for the job. Any arm-twisting should have
occurred before the deal was finalized.

William of VA 9:35AM December 10, 2010