Boehner says no new taxes for debt panel
By Paul Kane and Rosalind S. Helderman,
WashPost
Published: September 15
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday reaffirmed GOP opposition to any tax increases to solve the nation’s deficit problem, signaling a swift return to the trench warfare that characterized the debt and spending debate of early summer.
Boehner said that the special committee seeking long-term debt reduction should acheive its mandated $1.5 trillion in savings entirely by cutting federal agency spending and shrinking entitlement programs.
“When it comes to producing savings to reach its $1.5 trillion deficit-reduction target, the joint select committee has only one option: spending cuts and entitlement reform,” Boehner said in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington.
The Boehner speech was a direct rebuttal to the $447 billion plan proposed by President Obama last week as a way to jump-start the stalled employment sector. But more than that, Boehner’s speech established that there has been little change in the fundamental positions that gridlocked Washington during the past few months.
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WashPost
Published: September 15
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday reaffirmed GOP opposition to any tax increases to solve the nation’s deficit problem, signaling a swift return to the trench warfare that characterized the debt and spending debate of early summer.
Boehner said that the special committee seeking long-term debt reduction should acheive its mandated $1.5 trillion in savings entirely by cutting federal agency spending and shrinking entitlement programs.
“When it comes to producing savings to reach its $1.5 trillion deficit-reduction target, the joint select committee has only one option: spending cuts and entitlement reform,” Boehner said in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington.
The Boehner speech was a direct rebuttal to the $447 billion plan proposed by President Obama last week as a way to jump-start the stalled employment sector. But more than that, Boehner’s speech established that there has been little change in the fundamental positions that gridlocked Washington during the past few months.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
we don't need more taxes, we need more tax payers. Support policies that promote production not just some 'job'. If we want people to have jobs, let's have a government program where people dig ditches with spoons and then fill them up using popsicle sticks. That will employ people for years, but does it have any productive quality to actually help the economy? Of course not.
Obama's 'jobs plan' isn't going to do anything to initiate production. More of the same from a man of no ideas and whetted to his ideology of failure.
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