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Editor’s Note: The debate
is heating up as the August debt ceiling deadline approaches. My
opinion only: The Democrat controlled Congress didn’t bother to pass a
budget last year; the Democrat controlled Senate refuses to send its
budget version to the House this year. They seem to want to just keep
spending. The Republicans offered a budget last year, which was
rejected. They have offered a budget this year, which again has been
rejected. All this while trillions of dollars of new spending have
placed us in a potential financial crisis. Boehner has repeatedly said
that if the debt ceiling is to be increased, it must be coupled with a
decrease in spending. Pundits in the mainstream media have called that
a refusal to “compromise” by both sides. Can we afford to keep spending
more money we don’t have? You decide.
“Tax Hikes Are Off
the Table,” Says Congressman Boehner
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a press conference, Congressman John Boehner
(R-West Chester) reiterated that job-crushing “tax hikes are off the
table” in the debt limit talks. Boehner said Washington needs to “stop
spending money we don’t have,” and outlined several GOP jobs bills
aimed at removing barriers that are holding back economic growth. A
link to the video and text of Boehner’s remarks are below:
Boehner: In Debt Limit Talks, Job-Crushing Tax Hikes Are Off the Table:
“Listen, we’ve got to stop spending money that we don’t have, and since
the beginning, the Majority Leader and myself, along with Sen.
McConnell and Sen. Kyl have been clear: tax hikes are off the table.
First of all: raising taxes is going to destroy jobs. If you raise
taxes on the people that we need to grow our economy and to hire new
workers, guess what: they’re not going to do it if they have to pay
higher taxes to the federal government. Second, a tax hike cannot pass
the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s not just a bad idea, it doesn’t
have the votes and it can’t happen. And third, the American people
don’t want us to raise taxes. They know that we’ve got a spending
problem. That’s why Republicans passed a budget that pays down debt
over time without raising taxes.”
Boehner: GOP Focused on Jobs, Removing Barriers to Economic Growth:
“Yesterday, the House passed a jobs bill that would eliminate needless
permit delays and expand energy production to help lower energy prices
and to create jobs in our country. Today we’ll be passing another jobs
bill. This one will streamline and modernize the patent process to help
America’s innovators. This has been our focus all year: removing
barriers that hold back job growth. Our plan is to get government out
of the way and allow the private sector to do what it does best: invest
and create jobs.”
Boehner: Democrats Don’t Have a Plan for Jobs, Want More Failed
“Stimulus” Spending & Tax Hikes:
“Democrats don’t have a plan for jobs. You heard them say again
yesterday: what do they want? More “stimulus” spending and higher
taxes. Well, on the same day that the CBO called our debt crisis
‘daunting,’ Democrat leaders came out and asked for more spending. Now
if you recall, we tried this: it’s called the ‘stimulus’ plan. And it
didn’t work. At a time when millions of Americans are struggling, it’s
alarming how Democrats continue to call for more spending.”
Boehner: Real Spending Cuts Must Exceed Any Increase in the Debt Limit:
“Now we don’t have any more time to waste. I want to reiterate that we
will not agree to the president’s request to increase the debt limit
without serious spending cuts and reforms to the way we spend the
American people’s money. As I’ve said before, the spending cuts must be
greater than any increase in the debt limit. And these have to be real
spending cuts – no ‘targets’ to push this question off to the long
term; no more kicking the can down the road. And the reason for this is
simple: a debt limit [bill] that fails this test will hurt the economy,
impede job growth by intensifying the uncertainty about our nation’s
ability to deal with our long-term fiscal problems.”
Boehner: “This is the Moment” for Washington to “Do Something Big” for
Our Children & Grandchildren:
“This is the moment, folks. The fight isn’t about numbers, it’s about
jobs. It’s about the future of our country. We’ve got a chance to do
something big and we have that chance to do it now. For the sake of our
economy, the sake for the future of our kids and grandkids, this is a
chance and an opportunity that we cannot afford to allow to pass.”
See the video here
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