YouTube: Jon Kyl Corrects Schieffer

Sunday on Face the Nation, Republican Senate whip Jon Kyl kept correcting host Bob Schieffer about how extending tax “rates,” not “cuts,” is what is being debated, leading Schieffer to concede “I gotcha.”  “Are the votes there now in the Senate, in your opinion, to extend these tax ah-“Kyl: “Rates.”

Schieffer asked: “Is the Senate going to get down to business and resolve this whole business of the tax cuts?” Kyl chastised: “Nobody is talking about tax cuts. We're talking about extending the rates that have been in existence for the last decade.” Nonetheless, Schieffer stuck with his terminology: “Why is it so important to Republicans to extend the tax cuts for the upper-income people?”

Democratic Senate whip Dick Durbin matched Schieffer’s framing: “I'm not voting for any permanent tax cut for the people of the highest income categories” and Kyl felt compelled to again correct Schieffer and Durbin: “First of all we're not talking about tax cuts.” Schieffer interjected “I gotcha” as Kyl continued: “We're talking about extending, for another period of time, the rates that have been in existence for the last decade.”

YouTube: CBS’s Face The Nation Kyl and Schieffer:



Later, Schieffer deferred to Kyl to complete his sentence:

Schieffer: Are the votes there now in the Senate, in your opinion, to extend these tax ah-

Kyl: Rates.

Schieffer: Rates as you call it, for all Americans if the package includes extending unemployment benefits?

In the next segment, however, with Politico’s Jim Vandehei and CBS’s Nancy Cordes, Schieffer showed he really didn’t buy into Kyl’s phraseology: “I think that the headline, if I were going to write one right here, is that it appears they are going to extend these Bush tax rates, as Senator Kyl likes to call them. He doesn't want to call them tax cuts...”

The main stream media refuses to use correct terminology.  Senator Kyl is correct.  This is not a new tax cut.  The left uses tax cut to pit people making less than $200,000 against those who do.  This is the left’s typical class warfare at work.

When the tax rate extension passes and the economy shows improvement will Barack Obama and the Democrats then want credit for it?

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