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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Obama’s So-Called Budget: “Bad math, phantom revenues, imagined spending
cuts and a middle-class tax hike”
by Jammie
Like all of Obama’s previous budgets you can expect this to also get zero
votes. He’s got a perfect track record thus far: He’s never received a
single vote in his entire sorry presidency.
Historic!
The budget, it says, ‘would achieve $1.8 trillion in additional deficit
reduction over the next 10 years, bringing total deficit reduction to $4.3
trillion. This represents more than enough deficit reduction to replace the
cuts required by the Joint Committee [on] sequestration.’
The implication, one which the White House has made more deliberately in
the past, is that Barack Obama has already squeezed $2.5 trillion out of
the government’s next ten deficit statements.
Obama himself said during a press conference on January 14 that he had
signed bills into law that contained ‘a total of about $2.5 trillion in
deficit reduction over the past two years.’
FactCheck.org, a program of the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg
Policy Center, reported in February that Obama’s total sum included about $
600 billion, however, in new taxes – not spending reductions. It also
included $500 billion in reductions of the amount the federal government
planned to pay in future interest on its debts.
Only about $1.4 trillion consisted of actual spending cuts – or at
least what Washington wonks call spending cuts.
Federal budgets are configured along what’s called a ‘baseline,’
providing a predetermined level of year-on-year increases that Congress has
set on auto-pilot, and with which the White House generally considers it
unwise to interfere.
The $1.4 trillion in cuts were merely reductions in those planned rates
of spending increases.
The Daily Caller quoted House Speaker John Boehner’s press secretary,
Brendan Buck, who dismissed in an email the idea that the White House’s
budget will actually trim spending.
‘So where are the net spending cuts? I guess they don’t exist,’ Buck
wrote. ‘The president’s budget will – at best – be flat on spending –
or potentially even be a net spending increase [and] any deficit reduction
will come exclusively from tax hikes.’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell practically begged the White
House on Tuesday to get serious.
‘Mr. President, if you are ready to embrace bold reform — to take the
steps that are needed to make our entitlement programs permanently solvent
and grow the economy — then Republicans are ready to work with you,’
McConnell said.
Is it any wonder he’s running around on his absurd gun control crusade? He
’d rather do anything than get serious about of fiscal problems. Meanwhile,
this alleged budget is two months late. But he’s never late for a tee time
, is he? | t*b
发帖数: 850 | 3 because a lot of seniors vote for GOP.
experience tell them voting for GOP is better. | d*******p
发帖数: 2525 | 4 这不很正常吗，减少gop支持人群的福利，增加dem支持人群的福利....... |
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