Posted on 03/17/2011 10:48:25 AM PDT by 92nina
There was much confusion yesterday in the tax and pro-life world courtesy of a story in Bloomberg on taxes in H.R. 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." This inflammatory article incorrectly reported that there is a conflict between the pro-life movement and taxpayer advocates because H.R. 3 is a net tax hike.
The facts simply don't bear that out.
The official score on H.R. 3 was produced by the Congressional Budget Office. CBO says that H.R. 3 has "negligible effects on tax revenue." In budget scoring-talk, that's synonymous with saying a bill has a $0 net tax effect. Because a bill which has no net tax effect cannot possibly be a tax hike, H.R. 3 is perfectly-acceptable to taxpayer advocate conservatives, and there certainly is no danger of the bill running afoul of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. The bill cuts spending and doesn't raise net taxes, so it's ideal fiscal policy...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/abortion-defunding-bill-h-r-br-a5956#ixzz1GsXm2600
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and in Delicious and Stumbleupon
How would not paying for abortions raise taxes??
Bueller??
Didn’t the founder of Bloomburg News just sign that “gag order” on pro-life clinics in NYC?
Yep.
He said he believed in choice... as long as only one choice is allowed to be heard I guess.
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