Thursday, January 17, 2008

Rep Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) Says More Corporate Tax Cuts OK Because People Like Working Longer Hours

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is proud people have to work two jobs
On the same day the House GOP unveiled their "Middle Class Job Protection Act" — which does nothing for the middle class (there goes that GOP doublespeak again). Instead, it reduces the corporate tax rate by 25 percent. ...

ThinkProgress:

At a press conference today unveiling the stimulus proposal, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) justified the conservative plan to give tax breaks to corporations — instead of working Americans — by arguing that people actually like working long hours:
I am so proud to be from the state of Minnesota. We’re the workingest state in the country, and the reason why we are, we have more people that are working longer hours, we have people that are working two jobs.
And this has been reason 84,257 why the Republican Party is destined to get their asses handed to them this Nov.