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In case you missed it -- yesterday Congress voted on a bill that gave them two simple choices:
A) Let President Obama's payroll tax cut expire, raising a typical family's taxes by more than $1,000 next year, or
B) Extend and expand the tax cut, helping 160 million people and letting that same family keep $1,500.
The payroll tax cut would be paid for by requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay a little more. But some in Congress think millionaires and billionaires should get to keep paying the already-low rate they get, thanks to the Bush tax cuts.
This one isn't complicated. And for a party whose leaders and candidates have pledged not to support any tax hike ever, taking money out of the pockets of middle-class families should have been unacceptable.
But almost every Republican in the Senate went with option A -- blocking President Obama's proposal, and refusing to make the wealthiest contribute their fair share to help struggling families and strengthen the economy.
So it's clear that when they say no tax hikes, they really mean millionaires and billionaires shouldn't pay more, ever -- even if that means your taxes go up.
My questions is, unless you're a millionaire or billionaire, why would you support a political party that only thinks about the top one percent of Americans? I hope all Americans consider this at the polling booths next year.
If the other 99 percent use their brains and vote against the Republicans, it will be a slam-dunk for Obama's second term. If the Republicans for some (God Only Knows What) reason win, I dont know whether it will be pity or contempt I will feel for the Americans that aided and abetted what will be a very gob-smacking result.
