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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (13263)2/4/2010 4:12:50 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
In Baltimore, Obama reminded the Republicans that his $787 billion stimulus package had comprised elements they'd normally support - a $288 billion middle-class tax cut, $275 billion to bail out financially strapped states and an extensive infrastructure plan.

"A $288bil middle-class tax cut" misrepresents the cut. $275 bil for bailouts of states, plus a lot of other bailouts, is something that conservatives often oppose as is a strong expansion in porky federal construction projects.

The Senate Republicans then proceeded to vote unanimously against a provision, attached to a necessary increase in the debt limit, that would force Congress to pay for every new initiative it enacts.

The provision counts previously planned spending increases as not having to be "payed for", while previously planned tax increases are used as the baseline, so keeping taxes the same has to be "paid for". So it has a built in bias towards tax increases over spending cuts.
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