Posted on 07/13/2011 9:41:36 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
As Congress and the president try to strike a deal to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling, one Republican Senator tells ABC News that prospects look bleak.
“Right now I’m very worried,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told ABC News “Subway Series.” “If I were a betting man, I’d bet no [deal].”
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Senator Graham said Republicans should be willing to accept a deal that curbs entitlement spending and increases tax revenues by closing loopholes.
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The obvious solution, Graham said, is for Republicans to give some ground on taxes and for Democrats to give some ground on entitlements. But he doubts negotiators will get there before August 2nd.
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“You're giving money away to a few people at the expense of many, and I think it's time to reevaluate that,” Graham said. “If you did away with all deductions and exemptions except charitable giving and the mortgage interest, that's $1.2 trillion that's spent every year.”
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What’s old, has four legs, drinks too much, and sleeps with James Carville?
Mary Matalin and Lindsey Graham.
LOL!
He should be worried. Worried about his lifetime career being on the fast track to Outsterville. Anyone else sick of all the weenie RINOs?
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Nothing on the local frontas of yet. But whoever challenges him, they will never get past the state republicans to get any traction.
I am all for closing loop-holes; start with that auto-raise in salary Congress gets.
“Oops. I forgot the barf alert.”
You’re SO right. Lindsey Graham makes me want to barf. What a disgusting RINO.
We’ve got to get rid of these RINOs. They’ve been embedded in D.C. so long that they think they’re untouchable. I pray God we toss them out with the liberals.
2014 and the Tea Party primary challenge that throws this disgraceful RINO out on his ass can't come soon enough. A PERSON'S MONEY IS HIS PROPERTY, IT'S NOT "GIVEN" TO HIM BY THE GOVERNMENT, YOU JACKASS.
Any politician saying otherwise, for example this RINO puke, knows that, but is looking to wreck the economy in hopes of being part of the ruling class in the turd world nation that will inevitably result.
That is the reality we are faced with...
LG is a bona fide member of the LGBT.
Well, that’s good news. If Lindsey’s scared, the GOP must be doing something right.
They raise taxes, people will do less business and become more independent.
He wants to be a maverick like McCain..
Does this guy ever side with conservatives?
I am surprised Lindsey took his lips off Obama’s ass long enough to say that.
“Does this guy ever side with conservatives?”
Nope. But I don’t blame him (?) for that. I blame the idiot Republican voters who keep voting for him in South Carolina.
I truly hate Graham. I seriously wish ill will on him and his staff and family.
I’m done playing games and being civil. To hell with them all.
Let the night of the long knives begin.
Also Lindsey obviously is liberal in the way he believes taxes work. He says if you take all the deductions away, that’s 1.2 trillion right there.
He makes the classic liberal assumption that people will continue to give at the same rate as before they took away the deduction (ie before government hammered on something people were doing and effectively raised their taxes).
Raising taxes causes whatever the taxes are raised on, to decrease. Therefore Lindsey YOU WILL NOT GET 1.2 TRILLION. It’s why raising cigarette taxes never hit their liberal estimates. It’s why raising any taxes on activities never hits liberal estimates.
Freaking moron. Do you have to be told to suck air in and let it out, Lindsey? Idiot.
I can’t complain too much, my fellow so-called conservatives here in TN have sent Lamar! and Bob Porker to the Senate.
Just another idiot that doesn’t understand the behavior consequences of the differences between taxes and tax rates.
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