Hint: They are both consuming far too much already and consuming even more is a change in the wrong direction.
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):
You have no idea what you are talking about, I never advocated for higher taxes. I merely called attention to the fact that you turned “have to swallow” tax increases into “screaming for” tax increases.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599986131
Here he is on the floor of Senate. Listen and decide if he’s conservative or not
So, you’ve read the article? Has it been posted? I prefer to wait till I actually see what was written before I listen to mouth-breathers who jump in and trash conservatives.
I have seen no one try to claim that taxes are too low.
Coburn is a fool if he thinks the left will ever allow real spending cuts no matter how many times taxes are hiked
Hint: They are both consuming far too much already and consuming even more is a change in the wrong direction.
F*ck you Coburn!!!
And the same to your Republican cohorts who agree with you.
We are NOT going to pay more in taxes to fund the wasted stimulus and bank fraudster bailouts.
If you and your party votes to raise our taxes, you and your party are DONE!!!!!
We will go third party and give birth to a party that believes in and practices responsibility and is honest, unlike YOU you stinking piece of crap.
He didn’t advocate for higher taxes either. He said we are “going to have to swallow” tax increases to get the spending cuts we want. Because the Dems control the Senate. Our best bet is to use this as a campaign issue in 2012 and forget trying to get the Dems to go along with responsible spending.
Got the Potomac Fever bad, do you Coburn?
Pffft!
The poster of this article is not measuring high on the “reading comprehension” scale. There’s a big difference between “have to swallow tax increases to get the spending cuts we want’ and “screaming and advocating for higher taxes.”
We don’t have to “swallow” anything.
We control the House and control spending.
We control the House and control taxes.
The problem is Republicans want to steal more from people who work to fund people who don’t work.
They are already stealing too much. The answer is NO.
If these clowns keep going this way, they are going to be made to understand that the Tea Parties of 2009 were but a warning. Do the words "alter or abolish" ring a bell?
No I'm not for tax increases. I think Tom Coburn is not essentially for them either. The story is about the legislative impasse, and efforts to break it and pass some legislation to create conditions that will avoid a default on interest due on current U.S. Treasury notes; and its about a divided Congress with neither party a majority in both houses; and the truth about Mr. Coburn's tax preferences is in the details of dealing with that context. He knows that anything that gets passed will involve some compromise by the House majority and some by the Senate majority. That's not a policy preference, that's simply the way it is. I think that's where Coburn is coming from.
The Washington Elite do NOT understand that businesses and people will NOT take tax increases lying down. People will simply adjust their budgets so they do not spend as much and businesses will at the least scale down their business and begin to let people go or at the most, relocate to a more business friendly state. Heck the ONLY business that will thrive is U-Haul or some other moving company!
Coburn must have taken the Pelosi course on passing legislation. He’s no conservative.
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