Even as details leak on an agreement between both parties in Congress and President Obama works to temporarily extend the Bush tax cuts, the Senate was in Saturday's holding votes on two Democratic proposals on how to deal with the issue of the session. Needless to say, both failed. But the nominal results tell us far from where the debate over taxes and, more generally, the deficit, therefore, take a look.
The first vote was on the plan preferred by most Democrats and Obama. Permanently would have extended tax cuts for all users of revenue to $200,000 to $250,000 for couples (extending to all income tax cuts for 98% of Americans). Also would have extended unemployment benefits during a year, reduced alternative minimum tax for two years and had spread to dozens of other provisions of tax from stimulus bill and elsewhere. All the details here.
The first plan could not overcome a Republican filibuster by a vote of 53-36. 60 Votes are needed to break a filibuster in the current rules of the Senate. Every single Republican who voted (abstenido 11) voted against. Four Democrats joined Republicans vote aren't the Senator Russ Feingold [D, WI], Sen. Joe Manchin [D, WV], Senator Ben Nelson [D, NE] and Senator Jim Webb [D, VA]. Independent Senator Joe Lieberman [CT] had also voted against.
The second vote was essentially the same plane, except to increase the income limit receives the tax cuts of $ 1 million (extending tax cuts for all income of more than 99% of Americans). It is important to note that these plans both would cut taxes for everyone. Even if you earn $250,000 or $ 1 million, so to speak, receive all income tax reductions to the cut-off time. Above which could again be taxed at the highest rate of pre-2001.
The second error as well, this time in a 53-37 vote plan. All the Republicans voted yet not and four Democrats and Lieberman, still voted not so. However, a few flipped Dems. Machin, Webb and Nelson decided that million dollars cutting line was the commitment to the right and voted yes, but [IL], Senator Richard Durbin, Senator Thomas Harkin [IA], and Senator Jay Rockefeller [D, WV] opposed because they felt that the limit of $ 1,000,000 was too high.
At the end of the day, got nothing apart from getting down senators in the register, except Republicans 11 abstained - and consolidating, and readings of proprietor of the politician, who now all or nothing in the Bush tax cuts. Not extend to all levels of income, or expire for everyone.
Nobody expected really Democrats that expire at the moment. If did it, the first thing the Republicans would do when taking the camera in January would pass a permanent extension of reductions in taxes for all income levels. With 5 seats that Democrats are losing in the Senate, they probably have 40 votes would have to stop Bill sent to Obama. Obama could veto, of course, but then he would be taking the end action that would cause all Americans payroll down due to federal deductions increase. It is not the position that he wants to be in as 2012 approaches.
In addition, if Democrats agree with doing a temporary extension now, have a bit of leverage for use with the Republicans, so it can pass an extension of unemployment benefits and some other targeting class tax cuts medium and small businesses who were in the bills voted today. As I said in the past, the irony here is that everyone in Congress is allegedly concerned about the deficit, however, the more likely to compromise on this seems to be putting all the pet increasing taxes deficit short and expenditure items together on one bill and passed based on the fact that got a bit for many people. There objections from the left and right, but when all is said and done, there will be a treatment that pulls together the 60 votes from both sides of the aisles and adds some 500 million dollars for the federal deficit every year that it is indeed.
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