Wednesday, September 08, 2010

AP: GOP proposes renewing tax cuts, freezing spending

What's wrong with this AP article?
It should be titled:

GOP proposes rescinding tax increases, reducing spending

Because that's the truth.
I partly blame Boehner and the GOP leadership. Words mean things: They should learn that.
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GOP proposes renewing tax cuts, freezing spending

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Sep 8, 7:32 AM (ET)

(AP) In this April 14, 2010 file photo, House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican Leader John Boehner onWednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy.

In a broadcast interview, the Ohio Republican said he was offering a "bipartisan" alternative to the package of business tax incentives and infrastructure spending that President Barack Obama was slated to announce later Wednesday in Cleveland.

Obama has charged that the GOP criticizes him harshly, without offering any policy alternatives. Boehner touted his freeze-and-cut roadmap to recovery as an option instead of a catchall spending bill that Congress would pass later this fall.

Boehner said the biggest problem with the economy currently is the "uncertainty facing small businesses" that have been reluctant to engage in significant new hiring.

Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," Boehner said the American people are asking, "Where are the jobs?" and that the Obama White House is "out of touch" with voters. But he also said that "I'm open to the president's ideas."


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