Posted on 12/20/2006 12:09:33 AM PST by RWR8189
Sixty-one percent of Americans believe President Bush is not doing a satisfactory job. And more than 70% think the Republican Congress has failed to perform its job satisfactorily.
The continuing war on terror is one reason, but so are congressional spending, earmark excesses, and the corruption of House Republicans DeLay, Ney, Cunningham and Foley. In the six years of this administration overall spending has risen by 49%, and nondefense discretionary spending has increased by an average of 7.7% a year. The number of congressional spending earmarks totaled 10,656 in fiscal 2004 (costing $23 billion), 13,997 in 2005 ($27 billion) and just under 10,000 this past fiscal year ($29 billion). The Republican Party has become the party of big government.
But political supporters will take only so much contrarianism, so in the November election disgusted Republican voters allowed--even helped--both houses of the Congress to be taken over by the Democratic Party.
So will the Democratic Congress be any better than the Republican Congress was? A look at half a dozen likely policy proposals makes clear the answer will probably be no:
• Tax Increases. From the liberal perspective the good news is that the major Bush tax cuts will expire in 2010.
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The republicans seem unable to define their issues, they continually allow the democrats to demonize them and let the charges go unanswered effectively. The republicans do the right thing, but just are not articulate enough to say so.
New Tax Plans Would Be Costly For Everyone (WI. RAT's can't wait to raise taxes.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754327/posts
The liberal perspective in a nutshell.
The MSM comes to mind....
Employment benefits are income and ought to be taxed. But it should be done as part of tax reform with rates adjusted downward to compensate for broadening the base, not as an ad hoc, backdoor tax increase. That said, I doubt that organized labor would support such a move and I can't see the democrat puppets rebelling against the puppeteer on such a matter.
lib/dems....never met a tax that could be increased or passed!!!!
just keep singing the George Harrison song...Taxman....
coming to a town near you!!!!
Thinking of the 'Boston Tea Party',
maybe we should all go sign up for any and all benefits,
even if we aren't eligible.
Any tax rate in double digits, 10% or more,
should be banned forever,
for the sake of freedom.
The WSJ forgot the big tax increases to combat global warming.
America voted for "change".
Burning down the house. That's also a kind of a "change".
"The republicans do the right thing, but just are not articulate enough to say so."
They lost the both houses because they don't do the right thing. They have become liberals. They're fumbling now to "redefine" themselves the same way liberals do when they lose power. That means a departure from the conservative principles that got them elected in the first place.
"Damn nasty article to read before going to sleep."
Even worse when it is the first article you read in the morning.
Recall elections the day after the first tax increase.
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