Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi (OH-12th) is still working on extending those Bush tax cuts. The wealthy have been doing very well, especially with people like Tiberi defending them. Scott Keyes interviewed Rep. Pat Tiberi for Think Progress:
Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, defended the House Republican budget
at a tax policy summit yesterday — as well as the broader idea that
taxes on the wealthy need to be cut while taxes on lower-income
Americans should be raised. When asked by ThinkProgress’ Scott Keyes to
square the GOP’s explicit desire to cut taxes for the rich with the fact
that it’s budget would raise taxes on low-income working Americans,
Tiberi responded by saying that to do otherwise would be to “beat up on
people who are trying to be successful.” He then made the case for
raising taxes on the poor by lamenting that they don’t have any “skin in
the game”:
TIBERI: I think the federal government has an obligation to make sure that we deal with people who have difficulties. But
at the same time, the tax code shouldn’t be used as a tool to just
bring revenue in and beat up people who are trying to be successful…So I
think we’ve got to lower the tax rates, both for corporations and for
American individuals. And let them try to grow our economy and grow jobs so people like you and me can have an opportunity to work....
The budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), defended by Tiberi, and passed by the House Republicans, would cut taxes for millionaires
by an average of $187,000 in 2014 alone, even if tax expenditures are
eliminated to offset the revenue loss. Meanwhile, it would allow tax
cuts on low-income Americans, passed in response to the economic
collapse, to expire. Families making $30,000 or less would see
their after-tax income fall, in some cases by as much as 2 percent,
while those making over $1 million would see it rise by 12.5 percent....
As long as Republicans like Pat Tiberi, Steve Stivers, Jim Renacci, John Boehner , and the rest of these GOPers keep defending their rich friends and contributors, the rich will get richer, and the poor will get poorer.
Here is a PR Web release which mentions Rep. Pat Tiberi:
New York, NY (PRWEB) June 11, 2012
Friday, June 8, Congressman Pat Tiberi (R-OH), Chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures held a
hearing to evaluate the framework that Congress should use to assess
whether to extend certain tax provisions that either expired in 2011 or
will expire in 2012, including New Market Tax Credits (NMTC) and the
Low-income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). This follows on the heels of an
April 26, 2012, Subcommittee hearing on proposals related to tax
extenders. At that hearing, Robert W. Davenport, president of the
National Development Council (NDC) http://nationaldevelopmentcouncil.org
submitted testimony and evidence stressing the importance of extending
the NMTC, which expired on December 31, 2011 and the passage of HR 2655,
the New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2011....
| DAVENPORT, ROBERT NEW YORK,NY 10010 | NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | 3/31/12 | $1,000 | Tiberi, Patrick J (R) | ||
| DAVENPORT, ROBERT NEW YORK,NY 10010 | NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL/FINANC | 12/20/09 | $1,000 | Tiberi, Patrick J (R) |
