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House Speaker John Boehner is turning up the heat on President Obama, calling the debt-ceiling increase "his problem" and putting the onus on him to present a deficit-reduction plan that can pass Congress.
Republicans in both chambers had tough words for the administration ahead of another White House sit-down Tuesday afternoon. On the Senate floor, GOP Leader Mitch McConnell accused the president and his party of "deliberate deception."
The comments may reflect increasing pressure from rank-and-file Republicans to press for deeper spending cuts and not cave in to the administration's call for tax hikes.
Read more: Boehner Assures Republicans He Won't Cave on Tax Hikes - FoxNews.com
Why can't we do both?
I'm mildly shocked, this is past the point the GOP always caves in and gives up it's position to the Democrats in the "spirit of bi-partisanship" and usually get hosed.
I guess the Tea Party really DOES matter.
Let's face it folks, the problem is NOT a revenue problem, it's a spending problem. WE HAVE TO CUT SPENDING, not increase taxes.
No. Taxes reimburse the government for services it provides for its citizens. During the Bush administration, the government started doing MORE for its citizens. We started fighting 2 wars for our country's security (well, arguably). We started providing more benefits for seniors via Medicare. We started investing more in education. Etc. So the government was doing more for us in many ways. (And yes, the same for the Obama administration.) Taxes should have gone up, or at the very least stayed constant...they should not have gone down.
The difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals admit there is a spending problem and desire a balanced approach. Conservatives, on the other hand, still blindly support tax cuts, forever and ever amen, and refuse to even humor the idea of an increase in revenue.
Why can't we do both?
I'm mildly shocked, this is past the point the GOP always caves in and gives up it's position to the Democrats in the "spirit of bi-partisanship" and usually get hosed.
I guess the Tea Party really DOES matter.
Let's face it folks, the problem is NOT a revenue problem, it's a spending problem. WE HAVE TO CUT SPENDING, not increase taxes.
This logic is befuddling... we're spending too much, so the answer is to... raise taxes.
$14,000,000,000,000.00 in debt and you think the answer is to keep spending? Serious cuts to entitlements. I know that too many people are stuck on this "Too much military spending" lie, but let's be honest here, Defense Spending is roughly 18% of the Budget, Entitlements are hovering just under 60%.
Ya'lls answer is "We spend too much on the military we have to raise taxes?" NO. We have to cut SS, Medicaide and Medicare, drastically. Guess what, we CANNOT AFFORD THEM.
The problem is the difference between spending and revenue. We do have to cut spending (maybe start with our forever war as that's wasted well over a trillion dollars), but we may have to increase taxes too in order to cut down on the difference.
Seriously, you support 3 foreign wars over supporting your own people? Your elderly, sick, disabled? Wow.
This logic is befuddling... we're spending too much, so the answer is to... raise taxes.
$14,000,000,000,000.00 in debt and you think the answer is to keep spending? Serious cuts to entitlements. I know that too many people are stuck on this "Too much military spending" lie, but let's be honest here, Defense Spending is roughly 18% of the Budget, Entitlements are hovering just under 60%.
Ya'lls answer is "We spend too much on the military we have to raise taxes?" NO. We have to cut SS, Medicaide and Medicare, drastically. Guess what, we CANNOT AFFORD THEM.
No. Taxes reimburse the government for services it provides for its citizens. During the Bush administration, the government started doing MORE for its citizens. We started fighting 2 wars for our country's security (well, arguably). We started providing more benefits for seniors via Medicare. We started investing more in education. Etc. So the government was doing more for us in many ways. (And yes, the same for the Obama administration.) Taxes should have gone up, or at the very least stayed constant...they should not have gone down.
The difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals admit there is a spending problem and desire a balanced approach. Conservatives, on the other hand, still blindly support tax cuts, forever and ever amen, and refuse to even humor the idea of an increase in revenue. This sort of ideological purity is destructive and childish.
Seriously, you support 3 foreign wars over supporting your own people? Your elderly, sick, disabled? Wow.
It's a little sick right? **** the old and infrim Americans, those guys in the ME need "freedom"! The forever war needs to go too. Foriegn aid needs to go. We don't have to scrap SS, Medicade, and Medicare; we can make changes to the system. We can also get rid of the Capital Gains Tax and tax that income as income would be normally taxed.
The willingness of some to huck people into the street or prevent their care in order to continue imperial and agressive wars is befuddling. If we hadn't gotten into our forever war, we could have more than paid for universal healthcare. A real one, not this giveaway to the insurance companies Obama made.
How is maintaining current tax rates a cut?
I'm mildly shocked, this is past the point the GOP always caves in and gives up it's position to the Democrats in the "spirit of bi-partisanship" and usually get hosed.
I guess the Tea Party really DOES matter.
Let's face it folks, the problem is NOT a revenue problem, it's a spending problem. WE HAVE TO CUT SPENDING, not increase taxes.
Because all money retained by businesses is used to create American jobs.
Always.
Republicans think Obama is playing rope a dope... and I agree. He is.
The Tea Party does in fact matter - and I'd like to see, at least once in my lifetime, a group of politicians with a backbone. They say it's a myth - like elves and wood faeries and such. No raising the debt ceiling without a Constitutional Amendment for a Federal balanced budget. And I want it in writing from the Democrats... in blood, with fingerprints and a "no way out of it", and a few cases of scotch so the progressives can blame it on being **** faced drunk when they signed it.
I'm speaking of the Bush tax cuts. They are supporting the Bush tax cuts, forever and ever amen...that is what I meant. They may not be a future tax cut but as enacted in the past, they were a tax cut and are still supported by conservatives across the board (even those, such as John McCain, who voted against them).
Yeah, so where are the jobs then? Businesses are sitting on record profits.
If the Bush rates are so bad. Why did the likes of Pelosi take advantage of them instead of contributing what they consider their fair share? Pelosi did nothing wrong in following approved tax rates. I am saying if they so strongly feel the "rich" need to pay "their fair share", why have they not contributed at the rate they feel is appropriate along? It is political bs to me to say the rich need to pay more, yet Pelosi has not. Contributions/gifts to the govt. can be done above the tax rate.
Because the future is uncertain. Obamacare, tax hikes... you don't start hiring and spending without knowing what future costs are going to be.
Business 101, go take a course and get back to us.
Because the future is uncertain. Obamacare, tax hikes... you don't start hiring and spending without knowing what future costs are going to be.
Business 101, go take a course and get back to us.
Really, really bizarre argument. So now everybody needs to practice in real life all legislation that they think OUGHT to be passed, but hasn't been?
So conservatives who think all illegal immigrants should be deported should be hauling vans full of Mexicans over the border on their free time?
I am an accounting major at a big ten school highly respected for it's business program, but be condescending all you like...it only discredits you, not me.
Obamacare is not an uncertainty - any mandates or taxes are now law, and can be read online by anyone with a laptop and eyes. Uncertainty is no longer an issue. The opposite is.
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