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Reid: Joint Committee Must Include Taxes Or Trigger Will Kick In
Real Clear Politics ^
| 8/2/2011
Posted on 08/02/2011 10:09:38 AM PDT by GreaterSwiss
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To: expatpat
RE :"
Actually, cuts in defense were inevitable, so this was a free giveaway. Obama is winding down our involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq whatever Congress says. You cant believe that the Defense cuts wouldnt be attached to that, like white on rice."
I heard a few times that the two wars were exempt and the defense cuts, 50% of the total trigger cuts, are to weapons systems and development.
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posted on
08/02/2011 11:52:19 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
To: MNJohnnie; ScottinVA
From your link:
For more details on tax increases in the Joint Committee process, please see my other two posts today.
I didn't see anything in your link that addresses Scottinva's assertion. Can you point it out - or find a link that has the pertinent info? I'd like to see it b/c a ton of people are saying the same thing.
To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
I think it has a rather nice sound.
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:03:39 PM PDT
by
sanjuanbob
(Festina Lente)
To: GreaterSwiss
Reid's lying.
He has to say this today because the left is boing bonkers over the deal.
To: GreaterSwiss
The only way we can arrive at a fair arrangement for the American people with this joint committee is to have equal sharing. It's going to be painful.Well, for those of us who are among the 50% who pay taxes directly, BOHICA!
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:17:29 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: RockinRight
Excellent point. We DO need higher revenues to reduce the deficit, but from a strong economy — and JFK, Reagan, and Bush II all showed that the best way to get that is though tax-CUTS.
To: expatguy
Did you write that?
I love this line:
“Common sense dictates that when you are in a hole you stop digging and it is America’s ingenuity unmolested by bureaucracy that will lift us from the abyss and not the government.”
So true and very well said.
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:22:56 PM PDT
by
txmissy
To: GreaterSwiss
only thing they left out was the ropes and lamposts...
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:23:16 PM PDT
by
mo
To: Perdogg
Well, I am siding with Rush on this one. We will just have to agree to disagree. One way or another we will have tax increases. Should be in appropriations, but then we got spending in obamacare—not appropriations. For these elites, Who cares about What is the constitutional legislative processs?
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:24:52 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
To: what's up
To: bushwon
0bamacare has nothing to do with this either. Once it is declared unconstitutional by SCOTUS it is gone.
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:27:45 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
To: txmissy
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:33:39 PM PDT
by
expatguy
(Donations make Expat Better!)
To: GreaterSwiss
This “Super Congress” is going to deadlock every freaking time - - at least they better.
...Because taxes are NOT going to be raised.
Gee, who saw this coming?
To: sanjuanbob
Giving it a nanosecond of thought after what you said, I agree with you.
Thank you.
To: Soul Seeker
There were some people who had been trying to get people on this site to understand what all this meant..and it meant tax hikes. I repeatedly said there would be a trigger mechanism that people wouldn’t like
We were bashed.
heckled.
Called Stalinists
Insane.
Trolls
Etc.
Republicans must stand together...blah blah blah
If people on this site refused to see what was coming..how is middle America suppose to understand
Hey, SienaDreaming and MNJohnnie..how you gonna like your tax hikes now
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:57:24 PM PDT
by
RummyChick
(It's a Satan Sandwich with Satan Fries on the side - perfect for Obama 666)
To: RummyChick
Oh, and th Dow is down 226.59 right now.
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:01:21 PM PDT
by
RummyChick
(It's a Satan Sandwich with Satan Fries on the side - perfect for Obama 666)
To: expatpat
Thanks for the link to:
http://keithhennessey.com/2011/08/01/bca-summary/
I think his analysis is spot on. IMO this session is/was about stopping the monemtium of the rats and banny, the results so far is that the Tea Party has won the arguments and PR battles in spite of the MSM going ballistic. While the results so far have been mostly symbolic. The stage is being set for a Conservative (Read Tea Party) President and a pub Senate. A Tea Party President (Palin I hope) can herd the RINO’ s in the correct direction.
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:09:46 PM PDT
by
Leto
To: GreaterSwiss
Joint Committee Must Include Taxes Or Trigger Will Kick InBoy, THAT was a quick committee debate!
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:46:30 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: GreaterSwiss
The let the trigger begin. We get a BBA vote out of the trigger. The $600 billion in defense spending will be equal to $60 billion a year and then we get to tell grandma that the Rats want to kill her with $600 billion in Medicare cuts.
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:55:13 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(Real Spending Cuts Don't Require Increasing The Debt)
To: All
I never thought I would live to see the day that members of Free Republic would take the words of a howling marxist (Reid) as gospel and react accordingly.
My fellow FReepers, I learned long ago that when you react to someone that is provoking you, they are in control of your every word and deed.
Right now, Harry Reid is living in your heads, rent free, and driving you. How, exactly, does that feel? How does it feel to have that sniveling pillock manipulating you?
It really doesn't matter what Reid says - he's a democrat and democrats always lie. He and hussein both have to say stupid sh!t like this to make sure their base doesn't sit on their hands next November because they know they're already in deep kimchi over a year away from the 2012 general election.
Get ahold of yourselves, people, and save your energy. This debt increase was not the hill to die on and, no matter how the federal congressional elections came out last year, most state houses went deep red. Know what that means? It means that the congressional elections going deep red aren't far behind. At least they won't be if decent and civilized people aren't discouraged by the likes of Reid and obama. They're hoping for a break in conservative unity. You know that, right? You know that by reacting to what he says you're giving him is way, don't you?
We didn't get here in one day, we won't get back in one day. Demanding everything happen right now is something that children do, not level headed conservatives.
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posted on
08/02/2011 2:04:13 PM PDT
by
wasp69
(space for rent)
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