"The plan has no chance of becoming law, but...."
So WHY so much PRINT SPENT ON IT, ding-dongs?
No wonder you are shutting down, Globe!
"Mexico border security, aid to Pakistan get Senate support" by Andrew Taylor, Associated Press | April 2, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted yesterday to boost aid to Pakistan and increase funds for security along the US-Mexico border, but rejected a Republican attempt to freeze spending on domestic programs....
Democrats easily rejected a bid by Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, to freeze domestic spending at 2008 levels. The vote was 58-40. The Senate also made it tougher to pass the cap-and-trade legislation that the Obama administration wants as part of an effort to reduce global warming. Lawmakers voted 67-31 to deny the legislation a filibuster-proof path through the Senate, meaning that 60 votes, rather than a simple majority, will be needed to pass it.
In the House, Republicans unveiled a budget plan that would cut taxes and radically overhaul Medicare. The plan offers a stark alternative to blueprints offered by President Obama and his Democratic allies. The plan, drafted by Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the Budget Committee, also freezes overall spending on domestic programs passed by Congress each year and repeals most of the spending in Obama's recently passed economic stimulus bill.
Despite spending reductions, the plan projects permanent deficits exceeding $500 billion into the future, fueled largely by big tax cuts. The GOP plan would offer a dramatically simplified tax code in which couples would have the option of a 10 percent rate on the first $100,000 of income, with a 25 percent rate thereafter, with the first $25,000 of income exempt from taxation. Singles could get a $12,500 exemption and a 10 percent rate on income up to $50,000. Taxpayers could also opt to remain in the current system.
Why not just SCRAP the WHOLE ILLEGAL THING, 'eh?
The plan would have future Medicare beneficiaries - those 54 and younger - enroll in private health insurance plans and receive a subsidy on their premiums. Democrats warned that the GOP proposal would result in sharply higher costs for the elderly if the value of the subsidy failed to keep up with healthcare inflation.
The plan has no chance of becoming law, but offers voters a contrast between the rival parties.
As IF THERE WERE ONE! We got TWO FACTIONS of ONE PARTY -- the WAR PARTY!!!! And WHOSE AGENDA-PUSHING PURPOSE does it serve to TELL THAT LIE, hmmmm?
Republicans have been on the attack, though they were mocked for rushing out a detail-free budget outline last week. Ryan said Obama's budget "is little more than a thinly veiled attempt by Washington to spend its way into prosperity, tax its way into tax relief, and borrow its way into debt reduction."
Democrats dismissed the GOP alternative, comparing it to a bad April Fools joke that would return the country to failed Bush administration policies.
I'm not defending war-criminal Bush at all!! EVER!!!
That make my views clear on that guy?
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Liberals Can't Hear Ron Paul Republicans
That also goes for the agenda-pushing, censoring and omitting, MSM.
When was the last time they even mentioned Ron Paul, 'eh?
