Better late than never....

[kentuck]

Obama Will Veto Super-Committee Plan That's All Medicare Cuts And No Tax Hikes

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will veto a comprehensive deficit reduction package if it includes cuts to entitlement program benefits but no tax hikes on the wealthy or well-to-do corporations, senior advisers said on Sunday.

The veto threat is an addendum of sorts to a $3 trillion-plus set of deficit reduction proposals that the White House will make to the congressional super committee tasked with comprehensive deficit reduction. But if administration officials are to be believed, it is now a principle by which the committee must act and it raises the specter of gridlock. Just last week, House Speaker John Boehner insisted that tax hikes should be off the table.

"hat the president is saying is he is not doing if the Republicans are unwilling to ask the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations to pay their fair share," explained a senior administration official. "What they can't do is send something to us with the things we propose and without the stuff on the revenue side because we will veto that."

Previewing the president's proposal during a conference call on Sunday evening, the same administration officials confirmed that Obama would not be calling for changes to Social Security payments or a raising of the eligibility age of Medicare -- reforms that he had embraced during talks with Boehner over the summer.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/18/obama-super-committee-veto_n_969056.html

[Demeter]

1. It's amazing how an election focusses the Politician's Mind

[eleny]

4. Well put

+1

[SugarShack]

2. oh really? well taxes do need to be raised, but that does not mean it's ok to cut Medicare!

These bums in the back room....will raise taxes just to cut medicare. get it off the table.

Obama will veto medicare cuts ....IF????????? If nothing! He should veto Medicare cuts no matter what. But then he is the one who put it there....


smells like bullshit

[dkf]

3. If we reform the health care system we don't need to touch Medicare.

And cutting Medicare benefits won't do a thing for the rest of the health care costs the Feds have to cover.

[me b zola]

5. Thats my take on this too

If the wealthy pay a few bucks they can begin dismantling medicare. Of course there will be loopholes so that whatever money the wealthy will be paying will just be for show. Hell, they'll probably make money off of it.

[tblue]

6. Yup. Setting the table for cuts.

There are Medicaid cuts in there, too. Unconditional.