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Senate Democrat budget 'blueprint' includes $1T in new taxes
The Hill ^ | 3/12/13 | Erik Wasson

Posted on 03/12/2013 12:39:20 PM PDT by pacificpundit

The first budget from Senate Democrats in four years includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes but would not balance the budget. The blueprint unveiled by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Tuesday to her Democratic colleagues would also turn off the next nine years of the sequester and replace those spending cuts with a 50-50 mix of tax increases and spending cuts. The budget would dedicate $100 billion to economic stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending and job training.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 113th; bho44; bhotaxincrease; budget; harryreid; taxandspend

1 posted on 03/12/2013 12:39:20 PM PDT by pacificpundit
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To: pacificpundit

DOA


2 posted on 03/12/2013 12:40:41 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz is my adoptive Senator, Rand Paul for President in 2016)
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To: pacificpundit

I’m confused. The Democrats have gotten away with ignoring their responsibility to pass a budget for the last three years. Why suddenly produce one now? Is it part of the Obama/Democrat agenda to take back the House by creating a budget impasse and blaming it on the Republicans? I don’t see any other reason for them to suddenly produce a budget (since they don’t consider their Constitutional responsibility to be a reason).


3 posted on 03/12/2013 12:43:20 PM PDT by American Quilter (I will succeed despite the liberals.)
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To: pacificpundit

Osama Mama needs to retire with her tennis shoes.


4 posted on 03/12/2013 12:43:33 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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To: pacificpundit

What part of “hell no” do these tax happy people not understand?


5 posted on 03/12/2013 12:44:21 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: pacificpundit

Who’s dumber, Patty Murray or Bobby Casey?


6 posted on 03/12/2013 12:45:11 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Palin was correct!)
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To: jazusamo

Or send the dog to the groomer in a newer limo...


7 posted on 03/12/2013 12:45:37 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: pacificpundit

Fish gotta swim
Birds gotta fly
Dem’s gotta tax

You cannot change nature.


8 posted on 03/12/2013 12:52:32 PM PDT by edcoil (Half of every class gratuates at the bottom, they are now politicians.)
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To: American Quilter
The Democrats have gotten away with ignoring their responsibility to pass a budget for the last three years. Why suddenly produce one now?

Because the House threatened to cut off their pay!

9 posted on 03/12/2013 12:53:54 PM PDT by what's up
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To: pacificpundit

“Senate Democrat budget ‘blueprint’ includes $1T in new taxes”

Um, I think the CORRECT term is NEW REVENUE.


10 posted on 03/12/2013 12:55:07 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Texan5
Or send the dog to the groomer in a newer limo...

Now, that's just silly. Fact is, Obongo has a full time staffer to take care of the dog's needs, at a cost of a mere $102K per year. Bo never needs to leave the Sepia House, and that saves the taxpayer a lot of money.

11 posted on 03/12/2013 1:00:51 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: pacificpundit
First Patty Murray is dumb as a brick and that is doing a disservice to bricks. Secondly she is the ultimate political hack.

Now, the real question is that the “threshold” that the President has announced and that the international monetary fund is using in Europe is that deficits should not exceed 3% of GDP.

So how does Patty's budget stack up to the deficit no more than 3% of GDP. Note that today France announce it wasn't going to make the 3% hurdle and that it would probably come in at around 3.7% of GDP in deficit.

My personal hope is that this Senate budget is now one goal post and the House budget is the other goal post. Political debate will come in and “in theory” hearings and public debate will lead to a compromise by both legislative bodies so that a budget can be passed prior to the end of September and sent to the President for signature.

We shall see what happens next. What will be truly interesting is if the President submits a budget and tries to move any goal posts.

12 posted on 03/12/2013 1:03:40 PM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Perdogg

Just setting their template for 2014.

“Which would you rather have?

Cuts to your government benefits and favorite programs?
Or higher taxes on some Eeeeeeeevil one-percenter?

Now....go vote!”


13 posted on 03/12/2013 1:05:50 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: pacificpundit

They just don’t get it....


14 posted on 03/12/2013 1:11:10 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Fresh Wind

I heard that, too-and I hope the dog enjoys the cushy life, because I’ll bet he ends up like the Clinton’s cat, Socks did-namely given away to a staffer. Still better than the Clinton’s dog-killed by a car. The Obamas don’t seem to be pet people any more than the Clintons were-pets are just props for ops to them.


15 posted on 03/12/2013 1:23:55 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: pacificpundit

Forget that.
Sequestor is the only way to start the voluntary death of Fedzilla.


16 posted on 03/12/2013 1:39:54 PM PDT by veracious
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To: what's up
Because the House threatened to cut off their pay!

Oh, I see! Good idea (and thanks for the link to the article that explained it). I can't see the Republicans having the backbone to carry it out, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

17 posted on 03/12/2013 1:45:18 PM PDT by American Quilter (I will succeed despite the liberals.)
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To: Sacajaweau

“They just don’t get it....”

Oh, they get it alright - that’s the problem. They’re not stupid - just evil.


18 posted on 03/12/2013 2:42:01 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: eCSMaster

Who’s dumber, Patty Murray or Bobby Casey?

oh you made my day...since Bobby boy is our State Senator, and he has been in hiding, like Hillary Clinton does every now and then, but Bobby hides all the time..his letters are a laughing matter, I no longer bother even saying ‘HI’ to him...but maybe between Patty and Bobby I would have to say its a ‘toss up’

thanks for the chuckle


19 posted on 03/12/2013 5:29:58 PM PDT by haircutter (,,,)
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