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- 时间: 2012-12-30 09:36Obama slams GOP 'priority' as fiscal cliff hours away
By Josh Levs, CNN
updated 11:22 AM EST, Sun December 30, 2012
NEW: Republicans argue Obama is overspending; he rejects those complaints
The president gives his first interview to a Sunday political talk show in three years
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(CNN) -- With the "fiscal cliff" so close that its arrival is now measured in hours, President Barack Obama sent a clear message to the country Sunday: Republicans are responsible for the stalemate and must be pressured to do the right thing.
"They say that the biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deficit in a serious way. But the way they're behaving is that their only priority is making sure that tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are protected. That seems to be their only overriding, unifying theme," Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview broadcast Sunday.
If nothing is done before Monday night at midnight, when the new year kicks in, the series of tax cuts that expires will hike up middle-class tax rates, damaging the economy and costing the average family about $2,000, he said, repeating the term "middle-class" numerous times throughout the interview.
The Senate is scheduled to convene Sunday at 1 p.m.; the House is scheduled to convene at 2 p.m.
If a broader deal cannot be reached, then the Senate should vote on legislation to make sure middle-class taxes are not raised and that 2 million people don't lose unemployment benefits, he said.
"If we can get that done, that takes a big bite out of the fiscal cliff," Obama said. "It avoids the worst outcomes."
Tough negotiations would then follow on the chief sticking point of the battle: whose taxes should go up. Democrats want them to go up for those making $250,000 or more. Discussions have involved the possibility of raising that figure to a $400,000 threshold, along with a push to keep estate taxes low; Democrats have said they might be open to one such scenario, but not both.
But many Republicans have opposed any increase in tax rates. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, suffered a political setback by offering a compromise -- a $1 million threshold for the higher rates to kick in -- that his GOP House colleagues refused to support.
Extending unemployment insurance was on the table in Senate negotiations under way Sunday, and the estate tax was under debate, according to a source familiar with the talks.
Negotiators worked late Saturday night, but not through the night, the source said.
Republicans argued Sunday that the resistance to Obama's plan is based on his refusal to adequately limit spending.
"The president is doing nothing about the addiction that his administration has to spending. He's the spender in chief," Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California echoed those remarks. "Even if you put back all the revenue you would get from those higher taxes, you still have a deficit. That's what we're trying to change," he said.
Obama rejected such complaints, telling NBC that he has cut more than a trillion dollars in spending. "I offered over $1 trillion in additional spending cuts so that we would have $2 of spending cuts for every $1 of increased revenue," he said on NBC.
The president also emphasized that he had campaigned on "a balanced approach" which would increase taxes on the wealthy -- and that the majority of Americans have made clear they support such a plan.
The idea of maintaining tax cuts for 98% of Americans, while allowing tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest, was once part of "a pretty mainstream Republican agenda," he argued, adding that opposition "is an indication of how far certain factions inside the Republican Party have gone."
The interview, recorded Saturday, marked the president's first appearance on a political talk show in three years.
A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said Sunday, "While the president was taping those discordant remarks yesterday, Sen. McConnell was in the office working to bring Republicans and Democrats together on a solution."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said the chances are "exceedingly good" that some type of deal will be reached by Monday night.
"I think, whatever we accomplish, political victory to the president, hats off to the president. He stood his ground. He's going to get tax rate increases, maybe not (on people making) $250,000, but upper-income Americans," Graham said on "Fox News Sunday."
"And the sad news for the country is that we have accomplished little in terms of not becoming Greece or getting out of debt."
At stake in the negotiations, according to numerous economists, is the fate of a still fragile U.S. economy that could be pushed back into a recession by the broad tax hikes and automatic $110 billion cuts to domestic and military spending spelled out by the fiscal cliff legislation.
Obama and Democrats have leverage, based on the president's re-election last month and Democrats' gains in the House and Senate in the new Congress. In addition, polls consistently show majority support for Obama's position on taxes, and Democrats insist the House would pass the president's plan, with Democrats joined by some Republicans, if Boehner allowed a vote on it.
"It is time for everybody to be all in," Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," calling for the wealthiest to pay higher tax rates. "This is common sense. This is about everybody participating to solve the problem."
Conservative activist Grover Norquist has vowed to back primary challenges against Republicans who violate his widely signed pledge not to raise taxes. Even if a deal is reached, Norquist has predicted yet more budget showdowns every time the government needs additional money to operate.
The saga has fueled disdain for politicians by many Americans. Such contempt is deserved, said Rep. Steven LaTourette, an Ohio Republican, who is retiring from Congress.
"I think America should be embarrassed by its leadership in D.C.," he told CNN on Friday. "The fact that we have been unable to do things, and instead worried about our next elections ... I think it's sinful." -
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- 时间: 2012-12-30 21:04如果没有被完成之前周一晚上在午夜，当新的一年里踢的，的一系列减税政策，到期将加息了中产阶层的所得税率，破坏经济和成本平均家庭约2,000元，他说，重复这个词“中产阶级”无数次的采访。
参议院召开星期日凌晨1时许，众议院定于下午2时召开
他说，如果不能达成更广泛的协议，参议院投票的立法，以确保中产阶层的税收不提高，有200万人失去失业救济金。
“如果我们能得到什么，这需要一个大的咬了一口财政的悬崖，”奥巴马说。 “它避免了最坏的结果。”
艰难的谈判将遵循的主要症结的战斗：他们的税应该去。民主党人希望他们去为$ 250,000或以上。讨论涉及这一数字提高到了40万美元的门槛，随着一推，保持较低的房地产税的可能性，民主党已经表示，他们可能会开一个这样的场景，但不能同时使用。 -
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Alpha“总统什么都不做了瘾,他的政府消费。怀俄明州的参议员约翰Barrasso说,”他是大款在行政上CNN的“国情咨文”。
加州共和党众议员达雷尔·伊萨的呼应。 “他说,”即使你把所有的收入,你会从那些更高的税收,你仍然有赤字,这就是我们正在试图改变。
奥巴马拒绝这样的投诉,告诉NBC,他已经削减了超过一万亿美元的支出。 “我提供了超过1万亿美元的额外削减开支,因此,我们将不得不削减开支,每1美元收入的增加2美元,”他说,NBC。
总统还强调,他竞选的“平衡做法”,这将增加对富人的税收 - 和大多数的美国人都明确表示,他们支持这样的计划。
的想法,保持98%的美国人减税,而最富有的减税到期,曾经是“一个漂亮的共和党主流议程的一部分,”他补充说,反对派认为,“是多远内的某些派别的指示共和党已经走了。“
采访中,记录星期六,标志着三年来第一次出现在总统的一个政治脱口秀节目。 -
- 时间: 2012-12-30 21:07参议院少数党领袖麦康奈尔,R-肯塔基州,发言人星期天说,“虽然总统昨天录音的那些不和谐的言论,参议员麦康奈尔是在办公室,努力使共和党人和民主党人一起研究解决方案。”
,R-南卡罗来纳州参议员格雷厄姆说,“非常好”,某些类型的交易将达到周一晚上的机会。
“我认为,无论我们完成,政治上的胜利的总裁,帽子关闭的总裁。他站在自己的立场。他会获得税率增加,也许不是人做的250000美元,但高收入的美国人,”格雷厄姆表示,“福克斯周日新闻”。
“这个不幸的消息,为国家的是,我们已经完成了小不成为希腊摆脱债务。”
在谈判中涉及,根据许多经济学家,是一个仍然脆弱的美国经济,可以进行推回经济陷入衰退的广泛税上涨及自动了1100亿美元削减到国内和军事开支的财政悬崖立法阐述的命运。
奥巴马和民主党的杠杆作用,根据总统的连任上个月,在新一届国会众议院和参议院民主党的收益。此外,民意调查一致显示,大多数支持奥巴马的立场税,民主党坚持加入了一些共和党人与民主党人,众议院将通过总统的计划,,如果博纳允许表决。
“这是大家都在的时候,”D-密歇根州民主党参议员黛比施塔贝诺,说周日在CNN的“国情咨文”,呼吁最富有的支付更高的税率。 “这是常识,这是每个人都参与到解决问题的。” -
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