Reid: ‘Everybody Willing to Pay More’ Taxes

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reidSenate majority leader Harry Reid says that “Everybody” is “willing to pay more” taxes. He said so in an interview with a Nevada Public Radio host.

“The only people who feel there shouldn’t be more coming in to the federal government from the rich people are the Republicans in the Congress,” Reid told the radio host, according to Roll Call. “Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.”

Reid rebuked the Nevada Public Radio host when he was asked what Republicans would have to concede to get Medicare and Social Security cuts on the table.

“You keep talking about Medicare and Social Security. Get something else in your brain. Stop talking about that. That is not going to happen this time. There is not going to be a grand bargain,” Reid said. “What we need to do is have Murray and her counterpart in the House, Ryan, work together to come up with something to get out of this senseless sequestration and start the budgeting process so that we can do normal appropriation bills.”

Reid said Republicans would have to agree to more tax revenue to get anywhere near a bigger deal.

“They have their mind set on doing nothing, nothing more on revenue, and until they get off that kick, there’s not going to be a grand bargain on – there’s not going to be a small bargain,” Reid said. “We’re just going to have to do something to work our way through sequestration.”

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Harry Reid lives in a fanatasy world: People are overtaxed and the Federal Government is overspent. It’s not the government’s money, it’s OUR money!

    Our fellow citizens want to embrace the shackles of government by sending even more money to Washington so that they can consolidate their power and waste it on pork-barrel projects? What chutzpah from Reid!!

    Every penny from taxapyers is “hekdesh” to these people. Reid would never dream of giving one penny of OUR money back to us — even though Washington is already so “fahrshtopped” with taxpayer money.

    “Ohev kessef lo yisba kessef” certainly holds gtrue for this Democrat leader.

  2. I remember when candidates for public office ran on lowering taxes. And this appealed to the common man.

    Today it’s, ” We will raise the taxes, but only on the “rich”‘

    Ludicrous.

  3. The title is misleading, as his statement only relates to taxes on the rich. He is not saying that the middle class is willing to pay more in taxes.

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