How to get around the Norquist pledge!

[IndependentinWis]

Just let the Bush tax cuts law expire on December 31, 2012 and pass a "new" law giving the lower and middle class "new" tax cuts and leave those making over ? dollars with a higher rate but less than the old Clinton rates on January 1, 2013. Thus those who have signed the pledge did not vote for a tax increase but actually voted for a tax cut.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Just let the Bush tax cuts law expire on December 31, 2012 and pass a "new" law giving the lower and middle class "new" tax cuts and leave those making over ? dollars with a higher rate but less than the old Clinton rates on January 1, 2013. Thus those who have signed the pledge did not vote for a tax increase but actually voted for a tax cut.

That's what it will come down to. The only real question is how much damage the Pugs will do to the nation's economy and markets in the meanwhile. Their thirst for sabotage still seems quite powerful.

 

[Mytzlplk]

yep, that would work, but I can read the outrage now over them having cheated to cheat the rich outta their dough

 

[IndependentinWis]

Mr M, You do realize where the dough of the wealthy comes from, the work of the little people whose salaries the wealthy have been reducing over the past thrity years. That is the ones who still have jobs. The wealthy have been sending those jobs overseas at an alarming rate. The wealthy who most often pay less as a percentage of their income in taxes than do the little people who once again are the source of the wealthy people's money.

 

[trapdoor]

Or you don't call it a tax increase. You call it a penalty and let the Supreme Court declare it a tax.

 

[Mytzlplk]

of course I do. My comment was basically that if some repubs assisted in the passage of that, they'd pay the price for their treason to their monied masters.

 

[JackDallas]

Bingo!