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GOP senator upbraids colleagues - Gregg hits $45b tax-cut package
Boston Globe ^ | December 9, 2006 | Rick Klein

Posted on 12/09/2006 8:03:22 AM PST by TFine80

WASHINGTON -- Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire yesterday used his last major floor speech as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to blast his own party's leadership in Congress, accusing Republican leaders of engaging in the type of fiscal recklessness that he said led voters to oust the GOP from power. Gregg, who will give up the Budget Committee gavel when his party relinquishes control of Congress in January, issued his unusually harsh critique in reference to a sweeping tax-cut bill that Republicans were rushing through in the final hours of the congressional session. "The American people took the reins of government away from the Republican Party relative to the Republican Congress in this last election," Gregg said in a speech on the Senate floor. "They did so, I think, in large part because they were tired of our hypocrisy as a party on the issue of fiscal responsibility. And it would appear that their concerns are justified. It is true, I guess."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: budget; congress; gregg; judd
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I believe his attacks were also about the spending in the bill, not only the tax cuts.

Does anyone know if his floor speeches are availiable on the Internet? I will post the speeches from the Congressional Record.

1 posted on 12/09/2006 8:03:29 AM PST by TFine80
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To: TFine80

Sounds like a sore loser to me. All of the sudden, a "Republican" thinks tax CUTS are bad? Jeeeesh!


2 posted on 12/09/2006 8:11:07 AM PST by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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The Senator's right. What good are tax cuts if it's going to get swallowed up by spending anyway?

Tax cuts work only if there's a corresponding decrease in government spending too.

3 posted on 12/09/2006 8:12:26 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
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To: TFine80

When are all the usual losers in the Junk Media going to wake up to something anyone who pays any attention to US Politics has know since the 1980s? Taxcuts pay for themselves by increaing economic activity and generating MORE revenue. The problem has ALWAYS been the FASTS growing cost of anything is Govt Spending. It grows faster then even health care costs or school tuition costs! We do not have a taxing problem, we have a SPENDING problem.


4 posted on 12/09/2006 8:14:55 AM PST by MNJohnnie (I do not forgive Senator John McCain for helping destroy everything we built since 1980.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Tax cuts work only if there's a corresponding decrease in government spending too.

True, but give us the tax cuts anyways. We taxpayers can use it.

5 posted on 12/09/2006 8:15:10 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

They should have rammed home a spending reduction before walking out the door.


6 posted on 12/09/2006 8:15:32 AM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: misterrob

Making a statement by reducing spending would be a better approach to looking forward to the next election.


7 posted on 12/09/2006 8:18:06 AM PST by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: TFine80
Judd got the wrong message. Americans, in general, think they are taxed too much. Conservatives, in particular, know they are taxed too much. Tax cuts put downward pressure on government spending in and of themselves.

If he's bitching about the spending that's something else but I suspect he has seen the writing on the wall. New Hampshire is no longer the Live Free or Die state due to invasion from the east and southeast.

8 posted on 12/09/2006 8:20:17 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Wrong way to think about it. Tax cuts are good to do in themselves because of their stimulative effect on the economy. That the pigs cannot keep their nose out of the trough is the fault of stupid voters, NOT because of the tax cuts. The two are not different faces of the same coin. You should cut taxes because it is the right thing to do, you should cut spending cause it forces efficiency on out of control Govt bureaucrats. What you should NEVER do is not cut taxes because your Congress critters cannot control their spending habits.

That would merely get you the worse of both worlds, slightest economic growth and out of control spending leads to ever more massive deficits.
9 posted on 12/09/2006 8:20:25 AM PST by MNJohnnie (I do not forgive Senator John McCain for helping destroy everything we built since 1980.)
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To: lowbridge

Most of the tax cuts they extended were goofy things like for solar panels and arcane things like tax credits on sales taxes for people who live in states without an income tax.

If they wanted to win real brownie points with the voters, they should have scrapped all of these piecemeal items and passed significant tax reform.


10 posted on 12/09/2006 8:20:46 AM PST by TFine80 (The 1994 Revolution Petered Out.... So Let's Try Again and Do It Right!)
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To: TFine80
Gregg is beyond comprehension. The key element is to eliminate a scheduled tax increase on families paying college tuition.

The good senator should see a physician soon ~ may be too far gone to engage in politics or something.

What a total whack job.

11 posted on 12/09/2006 8:28:05 AM PST by muawiyah
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Youv'e got that right. they really need to change that State motto.

The authors of that would probably shoot half of the current crop on sight.


12 posted on 12/09/2006 8:30:17 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: muawiyah

He was apparently also very frustrated with some provision regarding health care for coal miners.

So I do think spending was an element as well.


13 posted on 12/09/2006 8:30:59 AM PST by TFine80 (The 1994 Revolution Petered Out.... So Let's Try Again and Do It Right!)
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To: TFine80

If the GOP had raised taxes instead, the RATS would raise them again, bet on it.


14 posted on 12/09/2006 8:35:04 AM PST by Waco
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

"The Senator's right. What good are tax cuts if it's going to get swallowed up by spending anyway?
Tax cuts work only if there's a corresponding decrease in government spending too."

bump to those sentiments


15 posted on 12/09/2006 8:37:55 AM PST by KantianBurke
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To: lowbridge
True, but give us the tax cuts anyways. We taxpayers can use it.

A tax cut without a cut in spending is really just a deferment.

16 posted on 12/09/2006 8:40:16 AM PST by CGTRWK
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To: jwalsh07

You left out the invasion from the south: The Commonwealth of Massholechusetts.


17 posted on 12/09/2006 8:42:31 AM PST by GOPsterinMA
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To: Waco
The Republicans did raise taxes ~ on families paying college tuition.

I know this is hard for you to believe, but that's what they did. Only at the last minute did anyone realize that this probably made the difference in the Virginia election and lost them the control of the Senate.

What a bunch of dunderheads.

18 posted on 12/09/2006 8:43:57 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: CGTRWK

EXACTLY!


19 posted on 12/09/2006 8:44:03 AM PST by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
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To: misterrob

They did cut $40B in spending before the election. And these are renewals, not new cuts.


20 posted on 12/09/2006 8:45:55 AM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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