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Miserable Joke Of A Senate That Can’t Pass A Budget Can Pass A Tax Increase

Posted on | February 28, 2013 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly opposes the motion to proceed to S. 388, the “American Family Economic Protection Act.” This legislation would fail to address the federal government’s spending problems and would, instead, replace spending cuts with tax increases.
The Chamber has long stated that the sequester is bad public policy and should be replaced with prioritized spending cuts. But, this legislation would be worse than even the sequester. It would not prioritize less spending; rather, it would impose new taxes on businesses in specific industries. Like the sequester, this approach is not the answer.
S. 388 employs political rhetoric rather than seeking to implement good policy. It would increase taxes on some of the same successful small businesses that, just six weeks ago, were dealt a massive tax hike as a result of the fiscal cliff legislation. It also contains provisions that target American worldwide companies, moving the Code further from the territorial tax system we need to make American businesses more competitive in a global marketplace.

Read the whole thing. The deadbeat Senate wants some more tax money? Can we at least get an explanation of why the Senate can’t perform its budgeting task? My suspicion is that the fat baseline increases in the last approved budget are more dripping with pork fat than anything Reid could hope to pass in the current situation.

Then again, maybe Dingy Harry is just in total despair. Congress has to overcome the last four years of idiocy and do something in roughly the next fortnight to stave off a shutdown:

The only good drilling direction for Congress is vertically. That is, it mainly screws up.

via Sean Hackbarth and letsjustwin1

Category: Democrats

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6 Responses to “Miserable Joke Of A Senate That Can’t Pass A Budget Can Pass A Tax Increase”

  1. ladydshops
    February 28th, 2013 @ 12:52 pm

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  2. Michael_Zak
    February 28th, 2013 @ 1:04 pm

    @smitty_one_each Best not to blame “the Senate” when “the Democrats” are to blame. @rsmccain

  3. Mike G.
    February 28th, 2013 @ 1:52 pm

    Unless or until we clear the rot out of the US Senate, and that includes RINO’s, we will never see significant spending cuts. But you can guarantee that your paycheck will see greater cuts.

  4. AnthonyAbides
    February 28th, 2013 @ 2:37 pm

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  5. What Difference, At This Point, Does It Make Whose Idea The Sequester Was? : The Other McCain
    February 28th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm

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  6. della1946
    February 28th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm

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