Posted on 09/08/2010 11:00:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Republican Leader John Boehner onWednesday proposed a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008, before a deep recession took hold of the economy.
In a broadcast interview, the Ohio Republican said he was offering a "bipartisan" alternative to the package of business tax incentives and infrastructure spending that President Barack Obama was slated to announce later Wednesday in Cleveland.
Obama has charged that the GOP criticizes him harshly, without offering any policy alternatives. Boehner touted his freeze-and-cut roadmap to recovery as an option instead of a catchall spending bill that Congress would pass later this fall, the Associated Press reported.
Boehner said the biggest problem with the economy currently is the "uncertainty facing small businesses" that have been reluctant to engage in significant new hiring.
Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," Boehner said the American people are asking, "Where are the jobs?" and that the Obama White House is "out of touch" with voters. But he also said that "I'm open to the president's ideas."
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Mr. Boehner, if you really want to help Americans, create jobs and make our country prosperous again, please remember the 3 “F”’s of the tax code:
* FIX IT (Make it competitve).
* FLATTEN IT ( Make it simple and understandable ).
* FORGET IT ( Make it permanent ).
All these tinkering around the edges ( 2 years, 3 years, temporary, etc ) will only make it DIFFICULT TO PLAN ahead for businesses and cause more UNCERTAINTY.
No one will think of hiring with uncertainty.
Also, a word about that other term being used — TARGETTED. Please don’t use that word if you ever become the speaker.
That word is code for CRONY CAPITALISM, FAVORITISM and PORK BARREL SPENDING.
No matter how smart you think you are, you simply CANNOT KNOW which sector of the economy will be competitive to meet demand. LET THE MARKETS DECIDE AND STAY OUT !
There, I’ve said my piece. The ball is in your court.
>> But [Boner] also said that “I’m open to the president’s ideas.”
Giving the communist-in-chief ANY opening is a really stupid idea, Boner.
I’ll tell you why. Because in 2 years, Hussein will want to get elected again. And in 2 years, he’ll have to be held accountable, just like he is going to be held accountable in 55 days or so. :)
Sounds weak.
I don’t have alot of faith in Boehner. Another establishment inside the Beltway Republican.
Overlooking the untrustworthiness of Congress, 24 months is no kind of certainty for small businesses considering new hires. (And that goes doubly with Obamacare still looming.)
We really need someone with the cajones to clear out the GOP party stables. Hmmm, which potential presidential candidate has exactly that sort of record?
Wasn’t Trent Lott behind the sunsetting clause?
They will blow it. What a Wimp. Almost as bad as McClame inviting Obama to visit the border.
FAIR TAX is the way to go. Notice that no one in Washington DC even addresses it.
The tax system as it currently exists offers entirely too much power to established politicians regardless of their political affiliation.
If you reduce the tax codes to something easy to use and understand how can an established politician write exceptions to the tax codes that help a constituent and the politician (through campaign contributions)?
I disagree. Bush’s tax cuts had a sunset in them—right before an election.
The party that agrees with tax cuts will run on keeping them.
The party that hates tax cuts will have to say “we will raise them.”
Keeps their feet to the fire.
RE: Wasn’t Trent Lott behind the sunsetting clause?
If my memory serves me well, Lott did it in order to INCREASE the chances of it being passed with little Democratic opposition.
He reckoned that 10 years is more than enough time for the Bush tax cuts to work its beneficial way in the economy.
Insisting on making it permanent would probably force a filibuster and cause endless debates in what was then, a very weak economy (that was post DOT COM bust and post 9/11).
Here’s the difference between the Dems and the GOP... the GOP are very much willing to compromise even when they are in the majority ( as they were during Lott’s time ).
The Dems on the other hand, are not shy in RAMMING their agenda down our throats even when the bill is unpopular ( they CONTINUED ramming the healthcare bill down our throats even when voters from Virginia to NJ to liberal Mass. (rememeber Scott Brown ) have indicated they did not want it.
I want all my money back! I’ve been defrauded and cheated with incessant lies, phony promises and general BS.
I think two years is to give us a chance to get a different president.
Now...I feel better...
Boehner, you NEVER do the right thing at the right time....
How can one man be so timid at a time when the bar of power is right there within reach?
He has squandered it all before and will again...folks...dump the fool!
Playing politics got us here in the first place...it's time to put peddle to the metal...and do the right thing before it's too late.
“All these tinkering around the edges...”
But but but..this is the stock in trade in Washington DC...what K St commoditizes for Main St and Wall St...on behalf of a Congresscritter’s “reelection fund” of course...
It is not playing politics. It is putting pressure on Obama to sign an extension of the tax cuts. Obama is not going for making them permanent. But the pressure mounts to extend them. Then if we want them permanent, we replace him.
Alternatively, we can adopt your scorched earth strategy and reduce taxes in 2013.
Why just two years? So it can be an issue in the 2012 election, of course! And that’s a good thing. The candidates would have to declare on whether they would extend the tax cuts, make them permanent, or allow them to expire.
This brings the tax issue into daylight in an election year.
Exactly.
Nutless, gutless, RINOs. Time for these fairies to sit down, shut up, and let the conservative women do what is necessary.
I hope after the election, we get new leadership.
Scorched Earth Policy? Mine?
I simply disagree with Boehner....and in fact always have. He is weak...always will be. He is tanned...but that doesn't blow my skirt up....
Well said.
Oh, yes. By all means. Let’s attempt to foist the Social Security and Medicare shortfall off on the wealthy, and watch them flee the country.
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