GOP Senators Reject Tax Cut Plan

The GOP apparently is willing to put the upper 2% above the bottom 98%.  Nice priorities. 

Bernie Sanders sums it up nicely:

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called out Republicans for pushing tax breaks for the wealthy after "time and time again coming down to the floor of the Senate and saying, 'We have a huge deficit! We have a huge national debt!'

"And today what they want to do is drive that national debt up by $700 billion over the next ten years.

"Isn’t it enough for you that the top one percent earns more income than the bottom 50%?" Sanders said. "Isn’t it enough for you that in the last 25 years almost all new income has gone to the top one percent? Do you really think that the CEOs of Wall Street who will make hundreds of millions of dollars a year really need a tax break?"

"Let’s not give tax breaks to millionaires who in many ways have never had it so good," he said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/04/politics/main7116715.shtml