There's nothing we can do, it's automatic.
And if the Senate passes it with an automatic tax hike built in, there's no way it passes the House.
Let’s make it a spending trigger.
Here's the deal -- the Government will gets LOTS more money to play with IF and ONLY IF they totally screw up the national economy.
Ummmmmmmmmmm. We're incentivizing this?
Let’s do it a different way....Cut every department budget (Military excepted) automatically by 2%. That ought to do the same thing.
Should be called the “Porker” amendment. How about automatic SPENDING cuts? That is something I could agree with!
Try and kill this idea. If we can’t, then modify it to reestablish certain eliminated deductions automatically if the tax increase is triggered.
And put in a trigger that automatically cuts spending, whether the tax increase provision stays or goes.
Rand Paul didn’t. He’s going to vote for it.
In my humble opinion, I think DemocRAT money got to Corker, et al, quite a while back. No other reason for them to try and sink tax REDUCTION.
I am only interested in a spending cut trigger.
Nothing else.
The government is the one who needs to tighten its belt. A lot.
I like the idea — they just need to tweak it so it provides for automatic spending cute instead of automatic tax increases.
Real smart...increase taxes if growth slows down. That sure sounds like a plan to fix the problem. Sounds like some people need an Intro to Econ class. As to the deficit, how about this: Any congressman who votes for a budget that increases the debt by more than 3% cannot run for reelection.
“Automatic tax increases sound bad”, said Swamp Thing One.
“Yes, you’re right, so we will call them a trigger instead”, said Swamp Thing Two.
a uniquely crooked idea
I’m surprised Chuck & Nancy aren’t co-sponsors of the GOPe’s automatic tax increase plan.
Raising taxes can be (short Mongolian throat singing solo) .. awkward for congress, and they are sensitive critters ...
so they figure they might as well just raise taxes automatically, as they did with their pay raises back in `89.
https://www.ntu.org/ratecongress/page/do-members-of-congress-get-automatic-pay-hikes-colas
Squeeze more money out of us, give themselves more—and it’s all automatic.
What did they work in October? 9 days? But that’s OK. It’s all automatic.
But then the question, if it’s all automatic, when the government shuts down why don’t we think about firing them and putting IRC bots to work? Bots won’t try to raise their interns’ skirts over their heads.
There's nothing we can do, it's automatic.
If it passes the senate it has to be reconciled before it is voted on in the house
we need an autmomatic spending reduction law
Screw taxhikes
I hate the triggers, but it is more important that the bill be passed. Once it is and 4% growth becomes the norm, the steam will be taken out of the leftist envy train and future tax bills and budgets will be easier to pass.
Automatic spending cut trigger. Wow, I like the sound of that.
Require an automatic vote on tax increases if economic triggers in the bill are met in the future. They would never vote for it.