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Boehner on supercommittee: Tax increases are out, revenues could be in
The Hill ^ | 11/03/11 | Russell Berman

Posted on 11/04/2011 2:22:06 AM PDT by markomalley

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To: markomalley
I saw an article a few years go (maybe on the American Spectator site) suggesting possibilities for increasing revenues (actual revenues, not a code word for taxes). I don't remember much of it, but I do recall it suggested vigorously stepping up sales of oil leases (a two-fer -- "drill here, drill now!") and maybe sales of some federal lands. Lumber rights maybe?

If I could remember more about the article, I'd try to track it down!

61 posted on 11/04/2011 8:58:45 AM PDT by maryz
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To: KDD

Has nothing to do with loop holes. It is Marxist speak. Taxes and revenue are simply different words for the same thing.

Reality: Have you not noticed that no matter which party is in power nothing has really changed since Reagan—except at the very edges? Overall, everything has gotten worse. Pubbie or demrat they must have unlimited amounts of money at their disposal to maintain their power and, by extention, their place at the public trough.

Except for a few Tea Party House and Senate members, the rest of the elite scum need to go. Anybody thinks they’ll fix what they broke is smoking dope.

We’re way beyond loop holes here.


62 posted on 11/04/2011 9:03:02 AM PDT by dools0007world
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To: silverleaf
The solution to our decline is not MORE REVENUE, it is LESS SPENDING

No arguement there. First, all government workers should take an immediate 10% pay cut, across the board, just like many private companies have done. Then institute a hiring freeze. At the same time, eliminate the EPA, Education dept, and many other boondoggles\ departments the federal government has no business dabbling into.

Eliminate all foreign aid MONEY. If a country needs assistance during a Tsunami, no problem with rdirect elief efforts (food, clothes, water, etc.), but no more blank checks to buy allies.

Announce the US will no longer contribute money to the UN and if the rest of the world wants to stay in NY, fine, they'll pay for the privilege. Otherwise, require the UN to relocate out of NY within 6 months.

Brother, we're on the same page when it comes to spending. I'm sick of my tax dollars being wasted on illegal immigrants - free healthcare, free school, welfare checks etc. I'm sick of the democrats giving away tax dollars to green weenies and unions in order to launder political contributions back to the democrats.

God forbid if I were ever diagnosed with an incurable disease and the doctors gave me one year to live. I have had too many thoughts of what actions could be taken, none of them lawful.

63 posted on 11/04/2011 9:20:51 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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64 posted on 11/04/2011 9:28:22 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Lexluthor69

Actually he cries like a little baby...

Like anything that is coming out of D.C. these days...

I’ll believe it when I see it...And that is usually on my earnings statement, and how much “more” taxes I have to pay for them to squander...


65 posted on 11/04/2011 12:46:12 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: 4rcane
they may think they could get away with it

Beck said yesterday there were only 17 Freshmen that had not sold out to the man.

66 posted on 11/04/2011 2:11:19 PM PDT by itsahoot (There was a bloodless coup in 08, and no one seemed to notice. God help us.)
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To: ColdOne
He is such a disappointment.

Only to those who expected him to be anything other than the RINO that he is. I hated that he was put in that position, just like I hated that GW was pushed on us, but I had no say in either action.

We only get to approver or disapprove whomever the elite present. Write in or third party is the only way we can show our disdain, neither are very effective.

Never forget the world chose Barabas.

67 posted on 11/04/2011 2:35:31 PM PDT by itsahoot (There was a bloodless coup in 08, and no one seemed to notice. God help us.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks markomalley.
...a $2.2 trillion offer that included, by their calculations, $640 billion in new revenue from fees, insurance changes, increased economic growth and a change in the way inflation is calculated for government programs. Democrats rejected their offer, while Republicans turned down a Democratic proposal that included $1.3 trillion in revenues, which the GOP dismissed as unacceptable tax increases.

68 posted on 11/04/2011 4:23:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: nikos1121
Who is trying to kid?

REvenues=Taxes


If you put your thinking cap on, this is ok, lower taxes and get rid of regulations and revenue with go up.
69 posted on 11/04/2011 4:50:45 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( getting closer to the truth.................)
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To: itsahoot

go third, fourth, fifth party; the ONLY the republicans will learn is to be out of office.boner is a disgrace. i’m sure laura ingram will be waving her pom-poms for him again any minute now too.


70 posted on 11/04/2011 4:56:58 PM PDT by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))
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