Conservative Dems Want to Increase Deficit by Giving $100K in Tax Breaks to Millionaires

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Posted by AlterNet at 9:36 am
September 17, 2010

Conservative Dems Want to Increase Deficit by Giving $100K in Tax Breaks to Millionaires
Posted by AlterNet on @ 9:36 am


This post is by D. Aristophanes and originally appeared at Sadly, No!

The Hill has the current whip count of Democrats who don’t want to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy expire.

If, in the middle of the worst economy in a lifetime, with unemployment and poverty at toxic levels, you can’t bring yourself to tell the most privileged amongst us that they ought to resume chipping in a couple of percentage points more at the top marginal rate, why even call yourself a Democrat?

This country really is going to the dogs. And it’s being pushed in that direction by wealth disparity that is third-worldish in its propensity for beating down the psyches of the have-nots — only our national mythology of studiously denying that the vast majority of have-nots (including you!) are in fact never-wills prevents the whole thing from crumbling. That and the insidious creep throughout society over the past 40 years of the Randian philosophy of selfishness, rich people worship and the attendant calculated purging of empathy from the citizenry.

But the recession has exposed the wealth disparity wound a bit, at least. A recent CBS poll finds that 53 percent of respondents now favor having the nation’s top earners contribute a little bit more to the country that made them so fabulously wealthy.


House:

Mike Ross (Ark.)
Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.)
Harry Mitchell (Ariz.)
Jim Costa (Calif.)
John Salazar (Colo.)
Jim Himes (Conn.)
Allen Boyd (Fla.)
Ron Klein (Fla.)
John Barrow (Ga.)
Sanford Bishop Jr. (Ga.)
Jim Marshall (Ga.)
Walt Minnick (Idaho)
Melissa Bean (Ill.)
Joe Donnelly (Ind.)
Brad Ellsworth (Ind.)
Frank Kratovil (Md.)
Gary Peters (Mich.)
Travis Childers (Miss.)
Mike McIntyre (N.C.)
Earl Pomeroy (N.D.)
Harry Teague (N.M.)
Mike McMahon (N.Y.)
Zack Space (Ohio)
Dan Boren (Okla.)
Jason Altmire (Pa.)
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (S.D.)
Jim Cooper (Tenn.)
Lincoln Davis (Tenn.)
Jim Matheson (Utah)
Rick Boucher (Va.)
Gerry Connolly (Va.)
Glenn Nye (Va.)


Senate:

Joe Lieberman (Conn.), an Independent who caucuses with Democrats
Evan Bayh (Ind.)
Ben Nelson (Neb.)
Kent Conrad (N.D.)
Jim Webb (Va.)


http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/17/conservative-dems-want-to-increase-deficit-by-giving-100k-in-tax-breaks-to-millionaires/

[Enrique]

1. how conservative of them!

how deficit hawkish of them!

[liberal N proud]

2. The rich give large campaign contributions

Where the rest not so much, so Representatives are only looking after one thing, their contributors.