The left’s war on fiscal sanity.

 

When it comes to liberals, there is no middle ground.  They do not simply have a policy disagreement on what we do with our money.   They are in active warfare against anyone who offers even a breath of sanity.

 

The left has now picked out a new target in its war on fiscal sanity.

 

What is it?

 

Who and what would be a better question. 

 

The who is Grover Norquist.

 

The what is his no new taxes pledge.

 

Norquist heads Americans for Tax Reform.  His pledge has been around since the eighties. It is a simple pledge that says the signer agrees not to raise taxes and not to close loopholes in the tax code unless there are offsetting spending cuts.

 

What could be wrong with that?

 

The left is obsessed with raising everyone’s taxes.  Recently in France, a leftwing party proposed a 100% tax rate above a certain income.  

 

The left is in love with taxes and raising taxes.  It is almost an insane compulsion with them. 

 

We saw the first shots in this war in the Republican debates last year.  The question was asked of Republicans, would agree to tax increases if they were a part of a package that included spending cuts?  The question was asked repeatedly of the Republicans.  Would you agree to a package that included tax increases if 90% of the package were spending cuts?

 

The Republicans all wisely took a pass on that proposal.  

 

Grover Norquist has been promoting his tax pledge for twenty-five years.  Democrats see it as the major stumbling block keeping many squishy Republicans from agreeing to tax hikes. 

 

They have tried to get him to release Republicans from the pledge and the Democrats have been trying to demonize him for the pledge.

 

Ben Nelson of the infamous “Cornhusker Kickback” attacked the pledge yesterday.  Nelson, one of the most worthless members of the United States Senate in the nation’s history, called the pledge a trap for higher deficits.  We all know Nelson’s I IQ floats in the negative range but perhaps even a dim bulb such has him could figure out that if you spend more than you bring in, you will have deficits.

 

The left has launched and all out, coordinated media war against the pledge.  They hope they can pressure squishy Republicans into abandoning the pledge.

 

Democrats want Republicans to abandon the pledge and for good reason.  The last time a Republican abandoned a no new taxes pledge, it was George H.W. Bush and we know how that one ended. 

 

Americans should demand that their Congressmen and Senators abide by the no new taxes pledge even if they have not signed it.

 

Why?

 

It is simple.  Look at the track record of Washington.  The politicians in Washington cannot control themselves.  They are worse than the real housewives of Beverly Hills.  They spend, spend and spend.  It does not matter to them because they do not have to pay for it.

 

If we have the great package many in the left want us to have, the result will be taxes will be raised and spending will not be cut.   Last year, despite the clear will of the people that spending be cut, spending actually went up by 3%.

 

Our government is out of control.   We have leaders who lack the courage to do what must be done, namely cutting spending and bringing government back to the limited function our founding fathers envisioned. 

 

New taxes will only make a bad problem worse.  Spending is the issue.   Our elected officials are the problem.

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Mary Creekmore on June 25, 2012 at 10:00am

I work at a university and this was from an e-mail we received earlier today. Here is an example of our Congress at its worse and the Left's answer to "fixing" the increase of student loans as of July 1st. 

Senate negotiators are making steady progress toward a framework agreement to avert a doubling of student loan rates set to occur July 1, top aides confirm.


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) (J. Scott Applewhite - AP)

While Senators have left town for the weekend, staffers continued discussions Friday with hopes of announcing a deal early next week. They have tentatively agreed to use a combination of items proposed in recent weeks by leaders in both parties to provide nearly $6 billion.

Included will be a proposal originally advanced by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) to raise premiums paid by businesses for federal pension insurance--a plan that may be accepted by executives because it will be paired with new rules allowing them to lower pension liabilities, according to a top Senate Democratic aide.


One of a number of items proposed by Republicans last month will also be included, the aide said--though a GOP proposal to raise retirement contributions of federal employees appears to be off the table.

A Senate Republican aide confirmed that members of both parties were engaged on the issue and that discussions have been productive. The aides asked for anonymity to discuss closed-door negotiations.

The progress has been taking place quietly even as President Obama and top House Republicans on Thursday traded blows over the student loan impasse.

Without Congressional action, rates for federally subsized student loans will rise from 3.4 to 6.8 percent on July, raising the costs of a loan for an estimated 7 million students.

President Obama, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Congressional leaders in both parties have said for weeks that they favor freezing the rates for another year but have been unable to agree on how to pay for doing so.

Still, the agreement on the end goal has led all involved to assume a deal was inevitable but would not be announcemed until the final days before the July 1 deadline.

Bboth parties have chided one another for obstinacy for weeks.

Republicans have complained that Obama has not been more engaged in the discussions, but White House officials have made clear that they will sign off on a deal worked out by Senate Democrats.

Likewise, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) is aware of the negotiations but not personally involved, a House aide said.

Permalink Reply by Patti Jarvis on June 25, 2012 at 10:18am

Buffett has a solution:  On CSNBC of all places:

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in the United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2012

1. No tenure / no pension. A congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow in to the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all American do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U. S.) to receive this message. Don't you think it is time?

Permalink Reply by Patrick Don on June 25, 2012 at 1:51pm

I would be very careful about touting Buffet's suggestions. He plays both sides of the fence and in all cases comes up with a 'win' for himself. 

On the one hand he suggests a rational spending proposal while benefiting from ownership of railroads at a time when his good friend the Obummer is spending taxpayer money to lay rail track for high speed trains that just happen to be track that Warren will have access to; this is going on at the same that Warren touts increased taxes for the wealthy, but his own tax lawyers are in court defending back taxes owed by Warren in amounts with a great many zeros.

And please do not overlook his showboating of the big lie that his secretary pays a higher rate of taxes than he does. Giving Warren a forum for his snake oil proposals is like sleeping with the dogs - you get fleas!

Permalink Reply by Nancy on June 25, 2012 at 1:58pm

Sorry--don't care how rich he is; can't take advice from a man who for the good of his own company (Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC) may have advised BHO to kill the Keystone Pipe line so that his company would profit from shipping Canda's oil to the Pacific coast for export--JMHO. 

Permalink Reply by SHARRON AMSTER on June 25, 2012 at 12:18pm

The best thing to do is vote these people out of office and find people that are know what we are going through with these taxes. Start voting them out.

Permalink Reply by John Bellaire on June 25, 2012 at 4:20pm

I do not believe liberals make war against fiscal sanity. They simply have no comprehension of what fiscal sanity means. They just do not want to admit that anyone else has a good idea while they have none themselves. Stamping out all intelligence and sanity, attacking anybody who has a common sense plan is the best way, probably the only way they have to defend their own ineptness and stupidity, and to pretend they know what they are doing.

Permalink Reply by Nancy on July 12, 2012 at 11:35am

FYI. . .

Study finds companies with Republican-leaning leaders pay more in taxes
http://ht.ly/cb9ck
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/study-finds-that-companies-...

(be sure to check out the comments after the GP story)

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