{"id":188831,"date":"2010-07-21T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/21\/what-btd-says\/"},"modified":"2010-07-21T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T02:09:00","slug":"what-btd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/21\/what-btd-says\/","title":{"rendered":"What BTD Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be a push by the blue dogs and DINOS to try to make some portion of the disastrous Bush tax cut permanent.<\/p>\n

Of course, most the Republicans won’t vote for it unless it keeps tax cuts for millionaires, and so it needs liberal Democratic votes to pass.<\/p>\n

Well, the the blogger formerly known as Armando has this right<\/a>, the best course of action absent some major<\/span> concessions from the Blue Dog types is to do nothing, and let taxes go up, particularly the inheritance tax, which will pay for the loss of revenues this year in about 18 months if it returns to its old levels:<\/p>\n

But it is not for progressive Dems. In short, to hell with Baucus and Reid on this issue, Progressives can get what they want by simply making sure nothing happens. They have the bargaining power now. Time to use it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All that needs to happen for the taxes to be repealed is to do nothing<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Doubtless, the Obama administration will twist arms over this, since he promised people making less than $\u00bc million a year that he would not raise taxes, but he also promised to support a public option, to get us out of Iraq, repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and have a serious look at torture and other war crimes by Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

I don’t see any reason for liberals in Congress to go out of their way to support Obama on bad policy promises if he won’t fight on good policy promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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