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Coburn: We have to raise taxes in order to pass spending cuts
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/05/19/coburn-we-have-to-raise-taxes-in-order-to-pass-spending-cuts/ ^

Posted on 05/19/2011 12:35:34 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear

Earlier this week, Tom Coburn quit the Gang of Six negotiations in the Senate, saying that the bipartisan working group on the budget wanted to go in a substantially different direction than Coburn would travel. Given that context, Coburn’s essay in today’s Washington Post prompts a question — just where exactly did the Gang of Six want to go? Coburn argues in his article that conservatives are going to have to swallow some tax hikes to get the spending cuts they want (via OTB):


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: coburn; obama; tomcoburn
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To: Minus_The_Bear

You have no idea what you are talking about, I never advocated for higher taxes. I merely called attention to the fact that you turned “have to swallow” tax increases into “screaming for” tax increases.


21 posted on 05/19/2011 12:48:16 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599986131

Here he is on the floor of Senate. Listen and decide if he’s conservative or not


22 posted on 05/19/2011 12:49:11 PM PDT by 20 years too late
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To: Minus_The_Bear

So, you’ve read the article? Has it been posted? I prefer to wait till I actually see what was written before I listen to mouth-breathers who jump in and trash conservatives.


23 posted on 05/19/2011 12:49:40 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: ez

I have seen no one try to claim that taxes are too low.


24 posted on 05/19/2011 12:49:45 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: ez
What you don't understand is that Coburn is a Senator for Oklahoma... not Massachusetts.

So when he advocates for tax increases he cedes ground. Democrats NEVER, EVER say they should agree to tax cuts.

he is being a tool just like McCain.

25 posted on 05/19/2011 12:50:32 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: ez

Coburn is a fool if he thinks the left will ever allow real spending cuts no matter how many times taxes are hiked


26 posted on 05/19/2011 12:50:58 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
That's like this guy saying "I have to eat more so I'll have the energy to exercise".

Hint: They are both consuming far too much already and consuming even more is a change in the wrong direction.

27 posted on 05/19/2011 12:51:10 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Deb
Wow.

We have are no-nothing number two who didn't read the article. And is defending higher taxes.
28 posted on 05/19/2011 12:52:27 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Minus_The_Bear

F*ck you Coburn!!!

And the same to your Republican cohorts who agree with you.

We are NOT going to pay more in taxes to fund the wasted stimulus and bank fraudster bailouts.

If you and your party votes to raise our taxes, you and your party are DONE!!!!!

We will go third party and give birth to a party that believes in and practices responsibility and is honest, unlike YOU you stinking piece of crap.


29 posted on 05/19/2011 12:54:08 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: Minus_The_Bear

He didn’t advocate for higher taxes either. He said we are “going to have to swallow” tax increases to get the spending cuts we want. Because the Dems control the Senate. Our best bet is to use this as a campaign issue in 2012 and forget trying to get the Dems to go along with responsible spending.


30 posted on 05/19/2011 12:55:23 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Got the Potomac Fever bad, do you Coburn?

Pffft!


31 posted on 05/19/2011 12:56:25 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
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To: ez
1. Coburn is not a Democrat so blaming the Democrats for his wanting higher taxes is not the issue.

2. Democrats NEVER start from premise of lowering taxes. This moron is kicking the economy while it is down.
32 posted on 05/19/2011 12:58:23 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Deb

The poster of this article is not measuring high on the “reading comprehension” scale. There’s a big difference between “have to swallow tax increases to get the spending cuts we want’ and “screaming and advocating for higher taxes.”


33 posted on 05/19/2011 12:58:34 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: ez

We don’t have to “swallow” anything.

We control the House and control spending.

We control the House and control taxes.

The problem is Republicans want to steal more from people who work to fund people who don’t work.

They are already stealing too much. The answer is NO.


34 posted on 05/19/2011 1:01:42 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: ez
We get it.

You agree with raising taxes.

Exactly what proposals do you think Coburn brought to "The Gang of 6"?

Do you agree with scrapping the child tax credit?
35 posted on 05/19/2011 1:02:04 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Minus_The_Bear
If Congress raises taxes, they will have no incentive to cut spending. In fact, they will do what they always do: raise taxes immediately - even retroactively - and then pass spending "cuts" that are really increases using something called "math", but never mind, because they won't implement them anyway.

If these clowns keep going this way, they are going to be made to understand that the Tea Parties of 2009 were but a warning. Do the words "alter or abolish" ring a bell?

36 posted on 05/19/2011 1:03:43 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: andy58-in-nh
Unfortunately, the math challenged are always with us.

They seem to think that money grows on trees. We can just "tax" more of it.
37 posted on 05/19/2011 1:06:18 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Sometime some Conservatives are no better than Liberals, when it comes to knee-jerk responses. No details needed; no context needed; just use the right code words and thinking and critical analysis ends and pre-programmed Pavlonian response begins.

No I'm not for tax increases. I think Tom Coburn is not essentially for them either. The story is about the legislative impasse, and efforts to break it and pass some legislation to create conditions that will avoid a default on interest due on current U.S. Treasury notes; and its about a divided Congress with neither party a majority in both houses; and the truth about Mr. Coburn's tax preferences is in the details of dealing with that context. He knows that anything that gets passed will involve some compromise by the House majority and some by the Senate majority. That's not a policy preference, that's simply the way it is. I think that's where Coburn is coming from.

38 posted on 05/19/2011 1:07:30 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Washington Elite do NOT understand that businesses and people will NOT take tax increases lying down. People will simply adjust their budgets so they do not spend as much and businesses will at the least scale down their business and begin to let people go or at the most, relocate to a more business friendly state. Heck the ONLY business that will thrive is U-Haul or some other moving company!


39 posted on 05/19/2011 1:08:03 PM PDT by getarope (Paddle faster, I hear banjo music!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Coburn must have taken the Pelosi course on passing legislation. He’s no conservative.


40 posted on 05/19/2011 1:08:56 PM PDT by liberalh8ter
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