{"id":2053,"date":"2011-12-13T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2011-12-13T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:26:17","slug":"obama-vows-to-veto-house-gops-bill-to-extend-payroll-tax-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/obama-vows-to-veto-house-gops-bill-to-extend-payroll-tax-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Vows to Veto House GOP&#8217;s Bill to Extend Payroll Tax Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/inside-politics\/2011\/dec\/13\/obama-vows-veto-house-gops-bill-extend-payroll-tax\/\">WASHINGTON TIMES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Stephen Dinan<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"obama\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/content.clearchannel.com\/cc-common\/mlib\/2135\/11\/2135_1321970832.jpg?resize=210%2C210\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> The White House said Tuesday it will veto a payroll tax cut extension being prepared by House Republicans, with President Obama insisting the bill also must raise taxes on the wealthy rather than cut government spending.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement of policy, the White House said the bill, which the House will vote on later Tuesday, is a Republican effort at politics rather than a compromise deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This debate should not be about scoring political points. This debate should be about cutting taxes for the middle class,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans say they have given Mr. Obama everything he wants in the bill, including an extension of this year&#8217;s payroll tax cut, additional limited unemployment benefits and a continuation of full payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.<\/p>\n<p>But rather than imposing a tax increase to offset the costs, as Democrats wanted, the Republican proposed a freeze on spending for federal salaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON TIMES by Stephen Dinan The White House said Tuesday it will veto a payroll tax cut extension being prepared by House Republicans, with President Obama insisting the bill also must raise taxes on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[344,9,248],"tags":[4,3728,3299,3730,3729],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}