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Coburn: We have to raise taxes in order to pass spending cuts
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/05/19/coburn-we-have-to-raise-taxes-in-order-to-pass-spending-cuts/ ^
Posted on 05/19/2011 12:35:34 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
Earlier this week, Tom Coburn quit the Gang of Six negotiations in the Senate, saying that the bipartisan working group on the budget wanted to go in a substantially different direction than Coburn would travel. Given that context, Coburn’s essay in today’s Washington Post prompts a question — just where exactly did the Gang of Six want to go? Coburn argues in his article that conservatives are going to have to swallow some tax hikes to get the spending cuts they want (via OTB):
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: coburn; obama; tomcoburn
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I wonder how many people will still show up and say "Coburn is a conservative" after he is screaming for tax increases.
To: Minus_The_Bear
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:37:14 PM PDT
by
TSgt
("Some folks just need killin'" - Sling Blade (2006))
To: Minus_The_Bear
Amazing that people fall for the GOP line of no taxes and smaller government. They lie too.
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:37:30 PM PDT
by
screaminsunshine
(Shut up and eat your Beans!)
To: Minus_The_Bear
Having to swallow tax increases is not the same as screaming for them.
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:37:48 PM PDT
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
To: Minus_The_Bear
This is the same line of BS my ex-congressman (D) gave me about Obamacare... We must spend more to save money.
Uh huh.
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:37:52 PM PDT
by
Roos_Girl
(The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Minus_The_Bear
Read my lips: No new taxes!
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:38:06 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(How do you starve an Obama supporter? Hide his food stamps under his work boots.)
To: Minus_The_Bear
Spending cuts now, Tax increases later (never).
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:38:12 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Minus_The_Bear
Honey, can I have more spending money. I promise I’ll cut my spending if you do./s
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:38:12 PM PDT
by
MsLady
(Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
To: Minus_The_Bear
We don't need no steenking RINOs®
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:39:24 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islamophobia: The fear of offending Muslims because they are prone to violence.)
To: ez
Wow, that was fast. You're the first person to fall for Coburn's crap.
We need to cut spending. Not raise taxes.
To: Minus_The_Bear
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:40:40 PM PDT
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
To: Minus_The_Bear
Sorry Tom, we have already fallen for that line of crap. Not again.
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:42:13 PM PDT
by
kempster
To: ez
You are advocating for tax increases just like Coburn... when we need to cut spending.
You can't even do simple math.
To: Minus_The_Bear
I feel like I’m living through Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Who is that imposter and what has he done with the real Tom Coburn?
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:43:48 PM PDT
by
Waryone
(RINOs, Elites, and Socialists - on the endangered list, soon to become extinct.)
To: Minus_The_Bear
From the article
“Coburn has done a great job in the Senate and is a serious, responsible conservative.”
Coburn is right...you can’t get the Dem Senate to agree to anytrhing unless you agree to go along with their tax hikes. That’s all he’s saying. Either make a deal or wait til 2012, those are our options.
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:45:25 PM PDT
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
To: Minus_The_Bear
That’s what they told GHW Bush. And they got part of it right ... taxes went up.
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:45:25 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Minus_The_Bear
Cut the budget by about a $trillion a year, or get out of Congress.
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:45:54 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: Waryone
Coburn has always been like this. People on Free Republic just call him conservative.
They called McCain conservative for years too.
To: Minus_The_Bear
does this guy still claim to even be a Republican??
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:47:27 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Minus_The_Bear
How about we trade a one percentage point increase in tax rates for a ten percent cut in spending.
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posted on
05/19/2011 12:47:37 PM PDT
by
reg45
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