Biden has gotten everything he’s wanted from Republicans.
Posted on 04/17/2023 12:33:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday panned Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) proposal to extend the nation’s debt ceiling until May of 2024 as a “terrible idea,” making it clear to everyone in Washington that Democrats don’t want to debate the issue again before the next election.
McCarthy formally unveiled his proposal to lift the debt ceiling for one year in exchange for a cap on non-defense discretionary spending and other reforms in a speech Monday to the New York Stock Exchange.
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Suggestion: Start dismantling federal departments and agencies at the rate of one per month. Begin with whichever one was most recently created and then work back in order.
Ok fine withdraw the offer and tell the rats to go f themselves
The Democrats will run out the clock rather than do a large scale deal.
Start with a bill offering a small (by DC standards) debt limit increase ($20 billion?) with a small savings trade (say by having a 10% minimum PPACA policy premium contribution [instead of 2%]).
Asking Miss Democrat to pay $50/month while Miss Republican has to pay the full $500/month is more than reasonable.
Debt limit increases should be balanced with spending cuts valued over a five-year period.
Paying say $200/month on top of a housing voucher for a DC area apartment is absurd.
Add 10% of the rent to the existing housing voucher co-pays.
Mark Methadone would then have to pay $380/month for his $1800/month apartment.
Even at over $100,000/year per DC bureaucrat, federal payroll is a small percentage of the federal budget.
Speaker McCarthy, Stick to your guns and you can guarantee a Republican House, Senate and Whitehouse in 2024. You will bring back the disaffected GOP voters of years past. Cave, and you’ll lose them and more for good.
It’s really that simple.
Stop lifting it. Let the Rats choose what gets cut and then hammer them with it
Want a budget, Mr. Biden and Chuckles? Take the White House budget, subtract 10 percent from EVERY line item, and send it back. That would be a reasonable starting position of negotiations.
Is 10 per cent the best haircut? Propose another value. But apply it equally across the board. To start.
Why extend it at all
EPA would make me happy
HE AIN’T GOING TO LIVE FOREVER
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Post-17th Amendment ratification Schumer probably has no reasonable explanation as to why he has voted to help pass many constitutionally indefensible federal spending bills imo.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
In other words, probably most of the US debt is based on unconstitutional, unaccountable federal taxing and spending.
Democratic and Republican patriots need to primary ALL career state and federal lawmakers and executives in 2024.
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