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Townhall
Winning the
Defense Spending Debate
by Ken Blackwell
Nov 16, 2012
With no time to recover from a thorough election day whooping,
Republicans in a lame duck Congress are facing an even worse budgetary
nightmare than last year. And they only have two months to negotiate a
solution with President Obama.
Last time, as the Chair the Balanced Budget Amendment campaign, fellow
conservatives and I were urging Republicans to tie the unavoidable
increase in the debt ceiling to a balanced budget amendment. Because it
also prohibited tax increases, the amendment would have required
balance to be achieved through necessary cuts throughout the federal
government.
But in the end, politicians did what you might expect: They punted the
issue. And America will now face serious consequences.
Initially, liberals in Congress set up a plan called "sequestration"
that has held the U.S. military hostage to their desire to raise taxes.
The original plan was to convince other congressmen to cave to tax
increases to prevent those defense cuts.
Now those cuts are scheduled to take effect in January, and they would
harm our military readiness.
During the presidential foreign policy debate, President Obama declared
that sequestration "will not happen." Yet with $1.6 billion in tax
increases on the table, he has already factored these military cuts
into his fiscal planning for the future.
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