Pat Buchanan: Republicans Should Stand Their Ground on Tax Hikes

[Jebby]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jcUpWrOjSA[/youtube]

Buchanan makes several good points:

1) The Republican House should pass a bill extending all the Bush tax cuts and the payroll tax and send it to the Senate. If the Democrats there don't want to take it up, they get the blame for taxes going up and can't blame the GOP for holding the process up (although they will try)

2) Republicans can't go into negotiations saying "we have to make a deal" because that puts them in a position of weakness.

3) Republicans CAN'T compromise on this principle. We've already given up on pro-life by throwing Akin under the bus, we've already given up on being against amnesty with this new push to legalize illegals. This is the one and only issue all Republicans(neonconservatives, paleoconservatives, libertarians, social conservatives, even moderates) agree on: "We stand for smaller government, less taxes."

[cattlebaron]

Yep. I'm very upset with Chambliss and his fellow cohorts who have turn coated on the rest of the Republican party. It puts the Republicans in a weakened position. They had no reason to sell out their own principles as negotiable 'sunshine' truths.......If you're a Republican act like one, regardless of the political winds!

Dig in! Fight on!

[rich_t]

The Republican Party is dead.  They just don't know it yet.

They are the new Whigs.

[sybilll]

Make no mistake, the Democrats WANT to go over the fiscal cliff.  Howard Dean is the only one brave enough to actually say it, but the Progressives see it as their wet dream: http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/30/howard-dean-fiscal-cliff-is-the-best-deal-progressives-will-get/
Let.It.Burn.   

[Zeus]

The Republicans should hold firm on a deal of Spending cuts now with possible Tax increase negotiations in the summer of 2014 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Honestly I am not that concerned about a modest increase in marginal rate applicable to the top two tax brackets, especially since people in that zone will generally figure out some way to avoid paying taxes on what they earn as ordinary income...Buffet, for instance, who talks out of one side of his mouth on it while telling his organization to pay him in forms of compensation that get more favorable rates than salaries.  My problems are the 'everything else' part and the delusion that the first thing will fix everything else or even move the needle on the G-meter in our tailspin to disaster.