Scott Brown's true record from Mass Uniting
At a noon press conference in Randolph today, US Senator Scott Brown is set to deliver what his office is calling a major policy speech ontaxes. While his Massachusetts constituents can certainly expect Senator Brown to echo the stereotypical gut-and-cut tax rhetoric of his Republican colleagues in Washington, here are five truths we wont hear Brown mention about his voting record on taxes:
1. I voted to give tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas.
Scott Brown voted to filibuster the Creating American Jobs & Ending Offshoring Act, a bill would have ended tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs or build plants and offices offshore to replace American facilities. The vote came as thousands of American workers face impending layoffs while training their replacements from China, India, and elsewhere. (US Senate roll call vote #242, 9/28/10)
2. I gave $24 billion of your tax dollars to Big Oil.
In the face of drastic budget cuts, Scott Brown voted three times to give more than $24 billion in taxpayer funds to the oil industry over the next decade. The top five Big Oil companies BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell are amongst the most profitable corporations in the world, posting $137 billion in profits in 2011 alone. (US Senate roll call votes #187 6/15/10; #72, 5/17/11; #63, 3/29/12)
3. I voted to take more money out of your paycheck.
Scott Brown voted to filibuster legislation to extend the payroll tax cut for working families holding low and middle income workers hostage to shield the wealthiest Americans from a small surtax on income over $1 million. In effect, Brown cast a deciding vote to raise taxes on 113 million working families. In Massachusetts, the surtax would have affected just 0.6% of taxpayers with an average income of more than $2 million. (US Senate roll call vote #219, 12/1/11)
4. I support tax breaks for millionaires
just not middle class or low-income families.
Three times in 2010 and again in 2012, Scott Brown voted to kill measures that would extend tax cuts for the middle class. Like his vote for payroll tax hikes, Brown used the same rationale to justify his votes to raise taxes on middle and low-income families: those making $250,000 to $1 million or more each year shouldnt have to pay their fair share like the rest of his Massachusetts constituents. (US Senate roll call votes #258 & #259, 12/4/10; #275, 12/15/10; #184, 7/25/12)
5. I filibustered tax credits and loans that help small businesses grow and create jobs.
Despite his claims of supporting job creators, Scott Brown repeatedly filibustered and opposed major legislation that helps small businesses grown and create jobs. Brown twice voted to filibuster the Small Business Jobs & Credit Act a bill that connected growing small businesses to credit through community banks and offered significant tax credits to small firms that create American jobs. When his filibuster failed, Brown voted again to kill the legislation. The Massachusetts Bankers Association stated that failure to act on the bill would be a missed opportunity that our struggling economy cannot afford. (US Senate roll call votes #218 & #221, 7/29/10; #237, 9/14/10)
Posted here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/08/scott-browns-true-record-from-mass.html
King_Klonopin
(1,307 posts)I live in Mass., and I can't stand this guy. He pimps himself as "independent" and bipartisan and
a blue-collar type -- BUT he is completely full of shit, as this post reveals.
He is a rubber-stamp Repub. who voted contrary to party-line maybe twice since taking the seat.
If Elizabeth Warren loses the Senate seat to him, it will be because people in Mass. are
ignorant of these facts (or choose to be ignorant). He appeals to white, male, knuckleheads
from 30-55 years old. So far, Brown's ads focus on making Warren look like a bad person
and avoid specific issues like those devilish details listed above.
Forward this post to anyone you know in Mass. who may be undecided ......
or a smug repug who thinks Brown supports the "common man".
Screw him, and his pick up truck !!
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)And I know. It's been a hell of a race with the surrogates doing all of his dirty work, with this greasy weasel hiding in the background making fun of Warren's supposedly indian relations and the fact she's "a professor" rather than a house husband of a new anchor.
Bottomline1234
(1 post)The $600 barn coat and pickup are warm and fuzzy cover-ups for a devious politician...commercials paid for by billionaires.