House Budget Memo to Senate: Listen to the People
Rep. Mike Honda, Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva and Rep. Lynn Woolsey
Huffpost
Posted: 05/ 3/11 07:43 AM ET
When the debate over the fiscal 2012 budget began, the country -- or, more accurately, the media -- was focused on Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) proposal. Introduced on behalf of the Republican House majority, our colleague's plan puts the interests of wealthy corporations first by slashing Medicare and Medicaid and spending trillions on a new corporate tax cut.
Indeed, cutting is all it seems to do. The Ryan plan slashes transportation investments in roads, bridges, rail lines, transit systems and airports by $318 billion over the next 10 years. It cuts 1.7 million low-income students from Pell Grant eligibility. That's not a jobs plan -- that's an economic death sentence.
The public isn't buying it. An April 17 Washington Post/ABC poll found what countless polls have told us before: An overwhelming majority (72 percent in this case) supports the highest earners paying more of their fair share in taxes as the best way to eliminate the national debt. There's good reason we saw this ThinkProgress headline April 20: "Paul Ryan Booed At Town Hall For Defending Tax Breaks For The Wealthy."
A serious conversation about our nation's fiscal future can't begin and end with a plan that the public finds too radical to support. That's why the Congressional Progressive Caucus introduced its People's Budget alternative April 15 on the floor of the House.
(Original here.)
Huffpost
Posted: 05/ 3/11 07:43 AM ET
When the debate over the fiscal 2012 budget began, the country -- or, more accurately, the media -- was focused on Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) proposal. Introduced on behalf of the Republican House majority, our colleague's plan puts the interests of wealthy corporations first by slashing Medicare and Medicaid and spending trillions on a new corporate tax cut.
Indeed, cutting is all it seems to do. The Ryan plan slashes transportation investments in roads, bridges, rail lines, transit systems and airports by $318 billion over the next 10 years. It cuts 1.7 million low-income students from Pell Grant eligibility. That's not a jobs plan -- that's an economic death sentence.
The public isn't buying it. An April 17 Washington Post/ABC poll found what countless polls have told us before: An overwhelming majority (72 percent in this case) supports the highest earners paying more of their fair share in taxes as the best way to eliminate the national debt. There's good reason we saw this ThinkProgress headline April 20: "Paul Ryan Booed At Town Hall For Defending Tax Breaks For The Wealthy."
A serious conversation about our nation's fiscal future can't begin and end with a plan that the public finds too radical to support. That's why the Congressional Progressive Caucus introduced its People's Budget alternative April 15 on the floor of the House.
(Original here.)
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