Psaki vs Pelosi: WH says $3.5B package 'will be paid for,' speaker suggests otherwise

[Counselor706]

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki contradicted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's assessment of how much of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package will add to the debt, saying the entire package "is going to be paid for."

"This is going to be paid for," Psaki said during Wednesday's press briefing when asked about negotiations over the size of the reconciliation package. "That is something the president is committed to, something Senator Manchin has called for as well. The real choice right now is whether you're going to lower costs for people in this country on elder care, child care, cost of college, or whether you're going to allow the wealthiest Americans and corporations to continue to pay the tax rates that are hardly fair moving forward."

But those comments seemingly contradicted Pelosi, who said earlier Wednesday that "maybe" all of the package could be paid for without adding to the debt.

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[YDB95]

More Breitbart looking for contradictions and inconsistencies where there really aren't any. Move along...

 

[ll74]

Didn't you post a source the other day which said that it wasn't going to be passed?

Now it is but the WH is lying about it?

What will the storyline be tomorrow about it?

 

[YDB95]

Didn't you post a source the other day which said that it wasn't going to be passed?

Now it is but the WH is lying about it?

What will the storyline be tomorrow about it?

It'll be whatever some Democrat says that Breitbart can pull wildly out of context to imply that there's dissension in the ranks. It's a fool's errand to predict.

 

[pecksniff]

Psaki never said it wouldn't add to the debt.

 

[ll74]

It'll be whatever some Democrat says that Breitbart can pull wildly out of context to imply that there's dissension in the ranks. It's a fool's errand to predict.

Just a note - the source is Fox Business.

 

[YDB95]

Just a note - the source is Fox Business.

Ah, thanks. Amazing how much it sounds like Breitbart, but that makes perfect sense now that I think about it.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Whenever a politician says something will be paid for, you can expect it to be paid for by the middle-class.

 

[Champakian]

Whenever a politician says something will be paid for, you can expect it to be paid for by the middle-class.

You're shouting at people who truly believe that the rich pay taxes
and that you can, and properly should, soak them for everything
they've got and that government can live off of that...

 

[JohnnySavage]

If the rich are not paying their taxes, and the IRS knows it... perhaps this is another of my stupid questions; but why doesn't the IRS go after them???


We are led to believe that there is all this free money just laying around and we can go pick it up and pay for a $3.5 trillion slush fund. How about we pick it up and pay down the debt?

 

[Champakian]

That's never going to happen.

 

[CornusKousa]

If the rich are not paying their taxes, and the IRS knows it... perhaps this is another of my stupid questions; but why doesn't the IRS go after them???

And if those making the accusations have such solid cases of tax evasion, why don't they take those receipts to the IRS???

We are led to believe that there is all this free money just laying around and we can go pick it up and pay for a $3.5 trillion slush fund. How about we pick it up and pay down the debt?

Pay down the debt??

That doesn't get generous and loyal campaign contributors a hyper-bloated contract to pick their own noses though.

Without those hand outs thousands will be jobless!!!

 

[CornusKousa]

That's never going to happen.

Nope.... campaign funds would dry up, can't have that happening.

Best to just keep printing money, what could possibly go wrong with that??

 

[Champakian]

Here is what the IRS and anyone with any economic acumen knows
and that is that "the rich" generally do not pay taxes,
they just pass them on to the consumer as
part of the price of doing business.



In short, all tax increases fall on the middle class, either openly, or hidden from them.

 

[CornusKousa]

Here is what the IRS and anyone with any economic acumen knows
and that is that "the rich" generally do not pay taxes,
they just pass them on to the consumer as
part of the price of doing business.



In short, all tax increases fall on the middle class, either openly, or hidden from them.

The consumer pays for everything.

This is what leftist don't and REFUSE to understand about business and microeconomics. The customer, end consumer, user, whatever you want to call them, pays every fucking penny.


Leftist: REGULATE CORPORATIONS INTO THE DIRT!!!! 50/hr MINIMUM WAGE!!! CEO Tax of 1 TRILLION UP FRONT!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!! WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!

That will fix it

6 months later.....

Same Leftist: Why is my McD's double chee 300 god damn dollars each?? This is outrageous!!! Corporations need to be taxed more and made to pay a LIVING wage!!

LOL....fucking retards.

 

[Champakian]

Good lord...



You eat that stuff???

 

[pecksniff]

If the rich are not paying their taxes, and the IRS knows it... perhaps this is another of my stupid questions; but why doesn't the IRS go after them???

Limited enforcement resources, not added to any time recently.

 

[Champakian]

See what I mean?

 

[CornusKousa]

Good lord...



You eat that stuff???

Only if traveling and desperate. Blowing through Burley Idaho at 2am on a 30hr drive across the country for example.....your choices are pretty fuckin' limited.

I live mostly on my own home grown/collected/hunted supply. Real food.

 

[ll74]

If the rich are not paying their taxes, and the IRS knows it... perhaps this is another of my stupid questions; but why doesn't the IRS go after them???


We are led to believe that there is all this free money just laying around and we can go pick it up and pay for a $3.5 trillion slush fund. How about we pick it up and pay down the debt?

The IRS doesn't have enough resources to address tax cheats (large or small) -> https://www.americanprogress.org/is...-budget-cuts-let-wealthy-tax-cheats-get-away/

 

[pecksniff]

I live mostly on my own home grown/collected/hunted supply. Real food.

It's not real unless you kill it with your bare hands!

 

[pecksniff]

The IRS doesn't have enough resources to address tax cheats (large or small) -> https://www.americanprogress.org/is...-budget-cuts-let-wealthy-tax-cheats-get-away/

Are there any bills in the pipeline to correct that?

 

[ll74]

Are there any bills in the pipeline to correct that?

Democrats tried to include it in the reconciliation. Unsure if it will make the cut.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/dems-push-irs-reform-dropped-003428849.html

 

[pecksniff]

America’s ultra-wealthy are responsible for 28% of unpaid taxes in US — $7 trillion in lost revenue: report.

In a blog post written by Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Natasha Sarin, the Treasury Department explained how prevalent tax evasion is among America's top income earners who have the ability to enlist the help of skilled accounting experts to help them better conceal their real income.

She went on to discuss the problematic tax gap and how it contributes to the United States' inequity.

"The tax gap can be a major source of inequity. Today's tax code contains two sets of rules: one for regular wage and salary workers who report virtually all the income they earn; and another for wealthy taxpayers, who are often able to avoid a large share of the taxes they owe," Sarin wrote.

The latest report comes as the Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers push for wealthy Americans and big corporations to "pay their fair share" of the tax burden. Lawmakers are also advocating for increased income reporting and enforcement of that demand from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Sarin also emphasized the issues that currently prohibit the IRS from thoroughly investigating high-income earners.

"Currently, an under-staffed IRS, with outdated technology, is unable to collect 15 percent of taxes that are owed, and a lack of resources means that audit rates have fallen across the board, but they've decreased more in the last decade for high earners than for Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients," Sarin wrote. "For the IRS to appropriately enforce the tax laws against high earners and large corporations, it needs funding to hire and train revenue agents who can decipher their thousands of pages of sophisticated tax filings. It also needs access to information about opaque income streams—like proprietorship and partnership income—that accrue disproportionately to high-earners."

 

[Rightguide]

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Psaki is a professional liar and propagandist. So far, all she has done is lie to America and the World in support of Joe's known lies.