Tax (reform?) legislation without (real) spending reform is a fool’s game that plays into the hands of the (mentally deranged) libs/progressives/socialists.
IF you couple your tax rate proposal with a budget bill that cuts ALL spending to 2000 levels, and a bill establishing zero-based budgeting as the ‘official’ US Federal budgeting process...then trumpet these items on every news feed, twitter feed, and constituent newsletter, loud and long; then, you might have something starting.
It all starts with every one of us arm twisting our elected reps to get on-board with the demands of this harsh reality.
I dont want anything like that passed under Obama anyway but Bohner and CO are determined to make a deal if not now the next two years. Anything O signs will likely be another poison pill.
RE :”IF you couple your tax rate proposal with a budget bill that cuts ALL spending to 2000 levels, and a bill establishing zero-based budgeting as the ‘official’ US Federal budgeting process...then trumpet these items on every news feed, twitter feed, and constituent newsletter, loud and long; then, you might have something starting.
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Except Rs already tried demanding spending cuts for the FICA (SS) tax cuts extension a year ago and got crushed by O (and their own voters).
The problem is that Republicans have an almost religious belief (peaked under GWB) that tax cuts are free(especially their's LOL) , at least they claimed it passionately so they could get tax cuts WHILE increasing spending.
Believe ME I argued that this was not true even in vanities here and I got tons of grief for dissing that Golden Calf, many times using Keysnian stimulus arguments for the FREE tax cuts yet .
So when they demand paying for the lower tax cuts Dems nail them for ‘putting the rich ahead of you’ because one set is free and the other isnt.
Bohner + CO wants future entitlement cuts not onesthe next two years.