Posted on 01/01/2013 7:37:31 PM PST by bestintxas
In the dead of the night, with no committee hearings, no public input and no time to read the bill, the Senate approved a bill written in secret by President Obama, Vice President Biden, Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi – the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.”
According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Senate-passed bill would cost taxpayers $3.9 trillion over 10 years and the Congressional Budget Office estimates that it would add almost $4 trillion in debt over the next ten years. The official estimate is that it will increase spending by at least $330 billion over 10 years.
Incredible.
But this is what President Obama promised, and he is keeping his word. Massive tax increases, massive spending increases, massive increases in our already unsupportable national debt, and no reforms to prevent the certain bankruptcies of Social Security and Medicare.
President Obama and his supporters are accelerating America’s swift descent and our transformation from the world's lone superpower into a bankrupt social welfare state like Greece.
I will fight them every step of the way.
I strenuously oppose the Senate bill, and I am dumbfounded and deeply disappointed that 89 Senators would vote for it. Did any of them read it before they voted for it? How could they? The bill text was made available to offices only a few minutes before the vote. Again, standard operating procedure for Democrats. Remember when Democrats controlled the House and Senate and they rammed through Obamacare and the $880 billion “stimulus” without anyone being given a chance to read those bills?
It’s truly tyranny to set up a bill that can’t be read by anyone to stave off legislative disaster that would occur if there are not enough votes to pass it. This bill could contain language that completely takes away all of our freedoms and we wouldn’t know until it was too late. In fact, it probably does...
What’s most disturbing is that the representatives weren’t allowed to see the bill. There should be no legislation without representation. Representatives who can’t read the bills are stripped of their ability to represent their constituents.
It’s over. Forget the court, we need a new republic.. The US is too polarized and will split open like the USSR did. Too many people do not want to pay for the nationalistic socialistic democratic party policies. The country is broke. Just drive around and have a look. It looks like Mexico is already here in Texas.
He can go after this bill on the grounds of where it started to. It’s unconstitutional. It started in the Senate.
Just like Zerocare.
“Texas should just succeed”
It is already succeeding.
What I want is for it to also secede.
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