Predictable braying for higher taxes

Washington Times ^ | 9/02/02 | Bruce Bartlett

[kattracks]

Last Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released new budget projections showing larger deficits over the next few years than previously estimated. The deficits are also larger than those earlier forecast by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

As I predicted, Democrats immediately attacked the Bush administration for cooking the books. Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, in a burst of creativity, accused the White House of using "Enron-type accounting." How original. I bet no one else has ever thought of using Enron as an example of flawed accounting. His cleverness just knocks me over.

[Lancey Howard]

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[goldstategop]

Joe Farah of Worldnetdaily reports in his Labor Day column that Americans pay the government 50% of their combined income in taxes BEFORE shelter, food, and clothing kick in. And Americans are told this isn't enough to keep government going! We need two things: getting rid of the income tax on the federal and state levels and putting a permanent cap on spending on both. There should be a principle that you should get to decide how much the government gets, not that it can confiscate whatever percentage of income by force that it feels like to satiate its never ending appetite for ever higher spending. Let's resolve to have a true Labor Day of freedom from the government in our country.