McConnell Peddles Old GOP Lie About Small Business Taxes
By Jon Perr Sunday Feb 22, 2009 1:50pm
In his first budget, President Obama apparently plans to keep his campaign promise to let the Bush tax cuts expire for Americans making over $250,000 a year. And just as during the election, Republican leaders are falsely claiming that Obama's proposal constitutes a tax hike on small business owners. This time, it is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell echoing John McCain and Joe the Plumber in spreading the lie.
McConnell's myth-making came during an appearance Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." (WMV and QT videos here.) There, he fired the first salvo against President Obama's plan to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans who need it least. Claiming that "a vast majority of American small businesses pay taxes as individual taxpayers," McConnell thundered:
"I don't think raising taxes is a great idea, and when our good friends on the other side of the aisle say raising the taxes on the wealthy, what they are really talking about is small business."
Of course, they're not talking about small business. As CNN concluded in October, "fewer than 2% of small business owners would pay more under Obama's plan."
As it turns out, McConnell is merely parroting the same fraud now that John McCain tried to perpetrate then. Last fall, then Republican presidential candidate McCain attacked Obama, wrongly asserting, "The small businesses that we're talking about would receive an increase in their taxes right now." As it turned out, McCain's human shield and faux small business owner Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher will receive a tax cut, and not an increase, under the just passed Obama stimulus package.
But in case there was any doubt the Republicans' deception on the point, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center quickly put it to rest. As the Obama campaign correctly claimed, 98% would see their taxes decline or remain the same:
Even using the broad definition of small business that McCain likes, very few owners would see their own taxes rise.
That's because the lion's share of taxable income comes from a small number of wealthy businesses. Out of 34.7 million filers with business income on Schedules C, E or F, 479,000 filers fall into the top two brackets, according to an analysis of projected 2009 filings by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
The other 34.3 million - or 98.6% - would be unaffected by Obama's proposed rate hike.
Of course, the complete falsehood of a statement is no barrier to Republicans uttering it. Now as in 2001, Republicans wrongly claimed that the estate tax led to the loss of family farms. When President Bush blasted opponents who say "the death tax doesn't cause people to sell their farms" with a mocking "don't know who they're talking to in Iowa," neither Hawkeye State farmers nor researchers could name one. As the New York Times concluded eight years ago, "Almost no working farmers do, according to data from an Internal Revenue Service analysis of 1999 returns that has not yet been published."
But just because it's a lie, doesn't mean Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party won't keep saying it.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives.)
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Keeping my personal log of internet activity ready for Senator John Cornyn's inspection to let my pretty little head worry about death taxes.
while I talked to family on the phone. Looks like I didn't miss much...
Thank you - the man is just about the ugliest thing walking around D.C. jeezus!
McChinless so fits.
And BTW - wasn't it McConnell who made the claim about $1 million bucks a year or day (or some shit) since the time of Jesus and we'd have the national debt?
comes from The Stephanie Miller Show, at least that's where I first heard it.
On top of Obama's existing plan, let's agree to cut small business tax by 10%, providing that we also raise big business tax by 10%.
That's what the Republican Party has become. Larger numbers of voters have begun to see the truth of the situation. All McConnell has to do is keep talking... and his true colors will shine thru.
Of course WE have to keep tlaking too... to our conservative sisters and brothers, and the people we work with, and the people who read letters to the editors of our local papers... every day... all the time... with sincerity and common sense.
I also noticed that John King said nothing to correct flappy jowls. This will be the new re-pubic-an talking point we will be hearing all week.
Proud, ignorant man from Korntucky.
repugs can't give a rat's patootie about small business except during election year and minimum wage increase debates.
They're all for the Walmarts of the worlds who ride roughshod over the ma and pa stores.
The ever wise Mr Turtle bestows wisdom upon us,lmfao.CEO,citizens,eyes,open.
Sorry, I had to be that juvenile.
You're a Roman satirist?
this early photo of Mitch during his juvenile career...
http://www.satyrsight.com/assets/images/Satyr...
The entire globalist bankster conspiracy is revealed here:
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/3820
By a guy called Plunger. I learned all I need to know from a friend named....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKezD7_RZSw
it's time to for mcconnell to STFU and
close his mouth, except he would bite
his balls off.......lol
What we need is a media that is educated and informed enough to STOP them in their tracks when they throw out baloney like this and call it out.
Why does this always have to be responsibility of Dem spokepeople or web sites like this one?
Can't the interviews have functioning brains or courage to stand-up to these goons?
It won't be the corporate media. Rachael Maddow, MSNBC, is bright, informed and articulate. But few Repubs want to be on her show because she shreds their talking points into ribbons. If the media would challenge the Repubs, they'd take their act to FOX and boycott the others.
What we will never get is a media that is educated and informed enough to STOP them in their tracks when they throw out baloney like this and call it out.
And I'm not just talking about his scare-the-children looks.
The guy doesn't care about anybody but the rich (as if Kentucky is just chock-full of them).
BID
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-yJBsjatW0 :-)
...I'm reminded of this guy:
Seperated at birth?
I thought McConnell looked familiar....
http://www.interiordesign.net/articles/blog/1...
I don't like the party Democrat
No siree.
I'll fuck them and their taxes
right into the sea!
And today the Great Yertle,
that Marvelous he
Is King of the Mud.
That is all he can see
(apologies to Seuss, Dr.)
You have hidden talents!
Put it to music and we'll all sing it! Hee hee.
and my anapestic tetrameter is rusty, not having read much poetry lately...
But thank you!
rusty anapestic tetrameter he would call a press conference and deny ever singing with Larry Craig. Either that or say he prefers his noodles with a tomato based sauce.
try to see if it works in his aeolipile
It pisses me off that an irredeemably corrupt scumbag like McConnell cqan spew such bald-faced, manipulative lies, but what pisses me off even more is that a propaganda organ masquerading as a legitimate news broadcaster is allowed to contaminate OUR airwaves with these lies, and they do nothing to challenge them. It's well past time for legal action against these outlets for fraud and for defrauding the public.
I'm really sick of this shit.
Lies big enough to drive a semi truck and trailer through. Holy shit. "....36 billion dollars a day...more than the 'dumb shit's administration" spent on "homeland security and Katrina combined"....doh, ya think so, you stupid sack of shit? Nice job they did on Katrina too, eh? Homeland security is a great piece of work too.
I think the Obama administration is going to set a few records with spending in the short term. What do you want them to do, Mitch, you goofy looking idiot, NOTHING?....like the dumb ass that just left the White House in shame? God, sometimes I want to scream when I hear this twisted logic these ass holes shell out to their brain dead. And does the host call them on any of it?....not a chance. So half my relatives, who want to believe that the repugs are alive and well nod their heads and say, "see, I told you Obama is f*cking things up".
This needs to be a point, counter point with these lying sacks of shit. You get them on solo, especially with these ass hole, pathetic excuse for hosts, and they will make it look like all we need is one BIG tax break, and everything will fall into place. Jesus...help this nation of morons.
I get so upset when I hear this spin go unchallenged. Absolutely insane!! No wonder we are a nation of morons. Go on Maddow and at least be challenged. "ain't gonna happen"...not with these chicken shit southern neocons. God help America!!
Just walked across the street to get three or four of McDonald's .49 Sunday hamburgers, pickles and catsup only (or without onions and mustard, if you will). I was told that they could only be ordered with everything or plain. When I spoke to the manager, she told me it was the decision of the corporate headquarters, and there was nothing she could do about it! It wasn't like I was asking for anything extra, just the omission of certain ingredients I didn't want, theoretically, saving them money.
THIS is the kind of bullshit that f'ing drives me insane! Off to Subway...
did you stop off and rent Five Easy Pieces after Subway?
Renting Five Easy Pieces and ask them to "Hold the Nicholson" and see what happens.
gotten me a vid rental (or enough for half a box of shells...)
Subway dropped Michael Phelps for smoking pot. They're assholes.
Subway is nasty. Cheap processed food and horrible bread.
Then there is Jared. He didn't lose weight eating subway, he lost his weight walking to a subway.
As for McDonlads.....F*ck 'em!!!
McDonald's: No workers comp for employee shot protecting patron.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McDonalds_No_wo...
NEWS REPORT - regarding Workers Comp Lawsuit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhw-Inji0k&eurl
Wow, that's f*cking unbelievable!
although every workers comp reform was supposed to fix this....
all claims are immediatly denied by the insurance company...they dont even read them
it then goes to the appeals court and then usually to a mediator
this is where the cost overruns occur
now every state has allegedly revamped their workers compt to streamline this, and lessen costs....but as you see, nothing has changed
i know this, because i worked in the field for 7 years
what i dont understand is why the kid only wants compensation for medical costs...there is no doubt that as a result of his injuries, he will incur future costs
Seems like the insurance industry shares much in common with law enforcement's treatment of people on minor drug busts--tie up lots of time and money in courts. Just great...
For five bucks, one can get a decent sandwich, but it really depends who makes it. Mine wasn't nearly as generous as the MILF's ahead of me...
meat? Is it meat? Yikes! Haven't eaten that stuff since I was a drunk.
to customer satisfaction? Last Friday I received a check payable on "Bank of America". So I go too the drive up and I'm told I must come inside to cash the check! They said the drive-up window is for customers who have accounts at Bank of America, irregardless the check was payable on the bank!
I just went home with the check not cashed... Monday, I'll be going down to that very drive-up window with that very same check that my Daughter will co-sign and since she has an account at that bank with the funds to cover it, lets see what they say?
PS. After they cash it, we're going to go park the car and go inside and [CLOSE HER ACCOUNT]! I've recommended a local bank to her.
F > Bank of America® :-)
ps. Use a credit union if you can.
I need to open a savings account in one soon, hopefully this week.
Because they have pre-made snadwiches sitting under the hot-spot right there, and don't want to have to make you fresh ones, and therefore throw away a couple of the pre-mades, thus costing them maybe $.02.
Just sayin'. Ive heard my own managers talk like that once or twice, and I always just make things fresh anyway, because a satisfied repeat customer is where the company makes their money.
Not that they're sharing any with me.
IF small business = wealthy, THEN
(off the hook = insane)+(GOP = racist)
ELSE
McConnell=LIAR
Of course the interviewer doesn't have a sufficient knowledge of the facts to challenge this ass. In fact, very few of the journalists today do. Seems that today the formula is simply: (1) Ask a question. (2) Get an answer. (3) Doesn't matter what the answer is. (4) Ask another question. (5) Smile for the camera.
Obama and his team need to go on the road from now until 2012 and do whatever it takes to ensure that garbage like McConnell are defeated in the next election cycle.
(2a) How do you feel about . . . . ??
(2b) What was going through your mind when . . . ??
(2c) How do you feel about what went through your mind . . .??
etc., etc.
Bimbo/Mimbo, B.A. (Journalism). (See S. Palin for sample curriculum vitae).
I remember hearing all about small business owners - SBO - when Gingrich was peddling his tripe and Bush Sr was running for a second term - what changed? The laser focus on taxes (not lowering taxes for SBO but just complaining about them) allows the republicans to keep them in line but in reality they are not the party of small business they are the party of obscene wealth (which small business owners would like to be a part of just like I want to play for the NBA - 99.99% chance it ain't gonna happen) in fact 90% SBO fall in the under 26% tax bracket, So unless your an ardent anti-abortion SBO I wonder why you trust these guys. They just wave the carrot stick of greed out there and these SBO will do their best lemming impersonation. FYI - I am a small business owner.
What a truly shameless liar. Wouldn't it be nice if reporters actually called him on some of these things...............Hello?
McConnell how do you lie like that and do it with a straight face?
a small business owner what he would prefer: A tax cut or customers. That should settle that, because with no customers, there is no income, resulting in no taxes to be cut.
Asswipes!
Their concern for small businesses is just as sincere as their concern for the average American. Zilch. Nada. Zero.
It's just a ploy to pass legislation that favors Big Business. Always has been. Always will be.
If it weren't for lies, Republicans would have nothing to say.
Obama will back track on his promise to not renew the corporate tax cuts..
Obaman has already back on another campaign promise about taxing the wealthy..
Obama, who promised during his White House campaign to roll back tax cuts on people earning more than $250,000. Obama will allow tax breaks given to wealthier Americans under his predecessor, George W. Bush, to expire as scheduled rather than eliminate them sooner,
stretch
a republican telling the complete truth with no ambiguity.
When are going to be through with these 2 damned old parties? Haven't they been around about about a century too long? It doesn't get any better with them in charge.
There is no such thing as a Reslug that isn't a ignorant liar.
has got to be the ugliest cocksucker I have EVER seen, in my life!Is this mutha-fucker married and if he is, from what I've read,the marriage would be a smoke screen because he's gay! Wait a minute before you folks start slamming me for bashing gays! The only thing that's wrong with being gay,is hiding it and at the same time telling the world what a terrible sin being gay is! Oh nuts ,I forgot this bitch is a republican!Hey Mitch why don't you use your generous health care bennies to get your FUCKING chin fixed! WHAT THE FUCK!
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