Posted on 01/09/2002 10:18:13 AM PST by KQQL
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
About a year ago, I sat in the rain with most of my congressional colleagues and witnessed George W. Bush's inauguration. I had supported the other guys, the Gore-Lieberman team that won the popular vote, but I was ready to work with our new president in what he promised would be an opportunity for bipartisanship, a new demagogue-free zone. With surpluses projected for as far as the eye could see, I looked forward to passing, among many other things, a fiscally responsible tax cut that would be growth-inducing and budget-balancing and that would not invade or jeopardize Social Security and Medicare. The age of fiscal discipline had arrived, and the old debate over who should get how much of the tax cuts could perhaps be decided without rancor or recrimination.
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I like the idea of a "Trigger". How about this... We "trigger" a CUT IN SPENDING!
This is a loser issue, and it will backfire on the RATS come November.
Here are a few ideas Ellen...
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=news_NewsReleases_01082002
Citizens Against Government Waste
Daschle Must Cut Waste to Restore
Fiscal Responsibility
Why Tax Hikes Preferred to Cutting Spending?
(Washington, D.C.) – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today blasted Senator Tom Daschle's (D-S.D.) economic plan and applauded President Bush's stated opposition to any tax increases.
"Sen. Daschle is missing the boat on how to stimulate the economy and improve Washington's fiscal health. His economic plan would increase spending without any offsetting reductions in waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, while at the same time offering targeted tax breaks instead of across-the-board rate reductions," CAGW President Tom Schatz said.
"Since Sept. 11, Sen. Daschle has blocked the economic stimulus package, tried to push through a massive increase in farm spending, added $15.6 billion to the railroad pension fund, let Senate Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) run wild with pork barrel, and failed to suggest one single program that could be cut or reformed to finance the war on terrorism."
"What Washington needs now is bipartisan leadership of the kind afforded Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman during their war-time administrations," Schatz also said. "In conjunction with non-obstructionist congressional leadership, those executives were able to achieve non-defense spending reductions of 22 percent and 25 percent, respectively, in order to fund World War II and the Korean War. Daschle has cited not a single waste cut in his plan. Where's the leadership?"
Examples of areas to cut government spending:
-Cut the pork: this year estimated to have surpassed the $20 billion mark.
-Eliminate corporate subsidies: $80 billion this year.
-Stop improper government payments: at least $20 billion.
-Make some or all of the 543 specific spending cuts listed in CAGW's Prime Cuts publication: $1.2 trillion over the next five years.
"To stimulate this economy it is necessary to trim government's fat and restore real fiscal discipline, meaning spending cuts, not tax hikes. Working Americans deserve to know what sacrifices Sen. Daschle is willing to make. Will he give up or postpone projects like the $500,000 earmarked last year in his home state to help improve infrastructure at the Sioux Falls Empire Fair Association's W.H. Lyons Fairgrounds? Or the $250,000 to renovate the Homestake Opera House in Lead? Or even the $75,000 for development at the Spearfish Economic Development Corporation's industrial park?" Schatz added.
Citizens Against Government Waste is the nation's largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
"Fiscal discipline" is the language of the new socialists. It is "fiscal discipline" and "balanced budgets" which provide socialists with the argument that we can affort new and better socialist programs. The truth is that:
This is an election year and the opposition’s strategy will be simple. They will attack Bush for using tax cuts to turn a budget surplus into a budget deficit. The socialists know that mounting deficits and mounting federal debt will choke and kill their pet socialist schemes, namely Socialist Security, and Medicare.
So, get ready to see lots of opposition campaign ads featuring dozens of little old Socialist Security and Medicare parasites begging, “Please don’t kill me.”All I can suggest is that you change the channel and try not to throw up.
The only way to KILL THE WELFARE STATE is to starve it. Tired of Socialist Security? Want to end the Medicare Ponzi scheme? Sick of socialist Meicaid programs?
Tired of socialist parasites deciding what should be done with your money? Choke them with Federal debt!
As for Tauscher, she's a spoiled rich kid who bought a seat on the NYSE at age 26. She will go down in flames in 2002 for her vote against fast-track.
Only if we can afford that.
When do the libs think it's a good time to cut taxes?
Never, that's when.
I can hear the parasites already:
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