GOP’s corporate-welfare tax giveaway

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Where's the fiscally-responsible conservative Tea-Party when you need them? Anyone?






GOP's corporate tax giveaway | MSNBC

Republicans say they care about the deficit—so much that a balanced budget has become the central pillar of the party platform.

But when it comes to tax breaks that benefit some of the country’s biggest corporations, they are willing to make an exception. And the GOP’s main fight with Democrats over the issue isn’t whether to extend these corporate giveaways or not, but how long they should continue.

This week, House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee moved forward with a $310 billion package that would make six expired tax breaks permanent.