Newly empowered Republican Senators are starting to talk about a bunch of nonsense, as expected, to the point that even Fox News is starting to push them on their bullshit. Here's a video of Eric Cantor talking to Chris Wallace about extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, which of course have been completely unfunded and account for a large portion of the deficit Republicans hate so much....but, wait....
Whoops! We had it all wrong, guys! Government doesn't need new sources of revenue! These fucking guys. This just illustrates what the Republican party really stands for: not fiscal responsibility, small government, or state's rights, but rather the "right" of the super-rich to not pay taxes. In Cantor's own words:
"No, I am not for decoupling the rates, because all that says to people looking to go back in and put capital to work and invest to create jobs is you're going to get taxed on any return you can expect."
Um, duh? Of course you are going to get taxed! What this statement really amounts to, other than a rejection of basic economics, is a statement that says "if you have enough money to start your own company and/or extra money lying around to invest, you shouldn't have to pay taxes."
Also, in case you were confused, "decoupling" is part of a compromise Obama is working on to separate middle-class tax cuts from the obscene tax cuts for the richest 2%, making the middle class tax cuts permanent and giving the tax cuts for the rich a temporary extension. Of course Republicans are against this, because without the middle class tax cuts lumped in with the tax cuts for the super rich, their position on not taxing millionaires and billionaires becomes a lot more indefensible.
Here's another example of the disparity between their rhetoric and reality:
On a final note, isn't it depressing that these crazies have now gone from the people Obama more or less just panders to when he really doesn't even need to to the people that we now all have to be legitimately worried will fuck everything up again?
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