Posted on 11/23/2014 5:45:34 PM PST by PROCON
After unilaterally granting temporary amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants last week, President Barack Obama said it would not be legitimate for a future president to unilaterally lower tax rates.
When asked on ABC's This Week if his successor could unilaterally act to lower taxes if Congress does not, Obama replied, "absolutely not."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Lowering taxes would help the American people, can't have that.
"He could raise them. But not lower them. Although he could use executive discretion to decline to prosecute certain races or classes of individuals."
This is rich.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
On another note, I hope I get to ridicule 0bama to his face some day.
Really? I wonder if Breitbart has a reference for that?
I've not seen an EO, and the memos from Friday don't do any of that.
/johnny
A President could, via Executive Order, eliminate withholding. Once that’s done, and people realized just how much they pay, tax cuts would follow. A whole lot of cuts.
Why the hell not?
Like waiving penalties for obamacare?
And according to the 1986 immigration law it is also not legitimate to make changes without approval of Congress....
Immigration Reform Control Act of 1986 "NOTICE TO CONGRESS BEFORE IMPLEMENTING CHANGES" (Required)
Government Printing Office ^ | 1986 | US Congress
Posted on 11/22/2014, 4:03:19 PM by xzins
"(3) NOTICE TO CONGRESS BEFORE IMPLEMENTING CHANGES.—
"(A) IN GENERAL.—The President may not implement any change under paragraph (1) unless at least—
"(i) 60 days,
"(ii) one year, in the case of a major change described in subparagraph (D)(iii), or
"(iii) two years, in the case of a major change described in clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (D), before the date of implementation of the change, the President has prepared and transmitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a written report setting forth the proposed change.
If the President proposes to make any change regarding social security account number cards, the President shall transmit to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Finance of the Senate a written report setting forth the proposed change.
The President promptly shall cause to have printed in the Federal Register the substance of any major change (described in subparagraph (D)) proposed and reported to Congress.
"(B) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—In any report under subparagraph (A) the President shall include recommendations for the establishment of civil and criminal sanctions for unauthorized use or disclosure of the information or identifiers contained in such system.
"(C) CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF MAJOR CHANGES.—
"(i) HEARINGS AND REVIEW.—The Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate shall cause to have printed in the Congressional Record the substance of any major change described in subparagraph (D), shall hold hearings respecting the feasibility and desirability of implementing such a change, and, within the two year period before implementation, shall report to their respective Houses findings on whether or not such a change should be implemented.
"(ii) CONGRESSIONAL ACTION.—No major change may be implemented unless the Congress specifically provides, in an appropriations or other Act, for funds for implementation of the change.
"(D) MAJOR CHANGES REQUIRING TWO YEARS NOTICE AND CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW.—As used in this paragraph, the term 'major change' means a change which would—
"(i) require an individual to present a new card or other document (designed specifically for use for this purpose) at the time of hiring, recruitment, or referral,
"(ii) provide for a telephone verification system under which an employer, recruiter, or referrer must transmit to a Federal official information concerning the immigration status of prospective employees and the official transmits to the person, and the person must record, a verification code, or
"(iii) require any change in any card used for accounting purposes under the Social Security Act, 42 USC 301 note. including any change requiring that the only social security account number cards which may be presented in order to comply with subsection (bXlXCXi) are such cards as are in a counterfeit-resistant form consistent with the second sentence of section 205(cX2XD) of the Social ecurity Act. 42 use 405.
,; "(E) GENERAL REVENUE FUNDING OF SOCIAL SECURITY CARD CHANGES.—Any costs incurred in developing and implementing any change described in subparagraph (D) (iii)for purposes of this subsection shall not be paid for out of any trust fund established under established under the Social Security Act
Thank you President Reagan.....from all of nus...
What? Why, do you hate Asian authors? Racist! </liberal logic>
Your own words condemn you.
He was a part-time lecturer. The commie coven called University of Chicago has created this monster.
sure they can especially if Dems don’t do what a Republican President wants. That Republican can order the IRS to not collect taxes. Thats what Obama did by ordering DHS to not enforce immigration laws.
Please dear Lord ,give us a Conservative Republican president willing to play head games with the Dems using their own words quoting them by name...it would be so fun to watch:)))
Not upholding tax laws is “different” than not upholding immigration laws?
Really?
Just how is this any different than Reagan’s foiled pursuit of the line item veto?
SCOTUS ruled that unconstitutional. But his adding to and amending pieces of Laws is Legal?
I guess you have to be Liberal to really understand the logic.
Wrong question. The right one would have been, “can a future president instruct the IRS not to enforce tax law in particular instances?”
Wait a minute. The Treasury is in the Executive Branch, as well as the IRS, so Executive Orders . . . oh, never mind.
This is awful.
amnesty, yes, taxes, no.
well at least now we know. not like our founders wrote some instructions down on how they thought government ought to work. /sarc
he could actually order the irs to return all withholding. irs is an executive agency.
he could order ssa to return all fica.
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