So the retort to tax breaks and unfunded wars is "Take your meds" How about address the point at face value. Simple enough. An idea that you can just keep increasing spending without increasing revenues is as ludicrous as giving tax breaks without reducing spending. They are two sides of the...
One other point to make and this one is towards Doc Savage. The Senate actually took up 2 bills today for a vote one which was the republican which I believe you mentioned, which could only get I think 38 votes. The other bill which was democrats got 51 votes but again due to the senate rules...
So you are saying that using a special procedure as reconciliation is, because you don't have enough votes to pass it into law isn't gimmicky? Hey if with 51 votes including the Vice Presidents does it for you. Good to hear. And they would have liked to make it permanent yes and if they had...
I can answer #59 for you. If Obama takes that plan and then has to decide on where the cuts go then the Republicans who would not compromise on making any kind of deal get the best of both worlds. They can say that they blocked the tax increases made the gov't more efficient and can blame the...
Actually yes gimmicky. Do you ever wonder why it was passed with a sunset clause in the first place? The initial tax cuts were done with a surplus and with a sunset provision to allow law makers to see the effects of the tax cuts and decide whether to keep them. They were designed to go away...
No paying more in taxes isn't a tax cut.. But all the bush tax cuts were to sunset. And the push instead was to extend only the tax cuts on the middle class and poor and just let the upper levels expire. Essentially they passed tax cuts for the middle class and poor. And allowing the other...
Are you referring to not extending the bush tax cuts that were set to expire and extended multiple times on the top income earners. Crazy about those gimmicky sunset provisions. I thought you would be happy though.. So depending on how you look at it the Republicans got tax cuts passed for...
I am not a huge fan of polls since they can always be manipulated by how you ask the question but this one had interesting results. Take away the partisan titles and names and then see what people like based on the plans merits to replace the sequestration...
I think this law is discriminatory. And outdated. It should not be applied to select states. It should be applied to all states equally. There are many different ways that northern states are trying to suppress the votes also. If your ideology has trouble getting popular support with the...
No its never a good idea to discuss raising revenue. There are certain tax pledges that some politicians have to follow. Or gun control apparently. But to talk about entitlements like Social Security.... We can talk about that every day.. Speaking of which can someone point out how much...
The agreement to this sequester deal which Boener got 98% of what he wanted and Paul Ryan worked so hard to achieve was if my understanding doesn't fail me a fall-back mechanism in case an agreement could be made. It is the stick that is used in case the carrot failed. No one thought that with...
I am wondering what exactly you expect Obama to do? Unilaterally force the Republicans and Democrats to come to an agreement and pass something? What kind of power do you think the president has? Perhaps you are thinking this is a dictatorship. Do you realize it is congress' job to actually...
The whole point of reforming it is that it is broken. The senate right now cannot pass anything based on the fact that the republicans there have said they will filibuster all appointments and they have threatened to filibuster an unprecedented amount. Which has deadlocked the senate making it...
So what is your guys opinion on Reids push to reform the filibuster in some ways. Would it be the worst thing for the Senators to actually have to filibuster vs just threaten to filibuster?
I hear people talk about patriotism and morals and ideology. Honestly I find voter suppression and election fraud to be one of the most un-american things one can do. It is despicable. If you can't win on your ideas and ideals.. Perhaps that should be an indication that your direction may...
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