Is this why Sen. Gregg refused to be O’s Commerce Secretary? Sen. Gregg notes the lies in O's?
Budget..entitled, ironically, “A NEW ERA OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AOL News ^ | March 13, 2009, 8:02am | Sen. Dave Gregg points out blow by bl...
Budget..entitled, ironically, “A NEW ERA OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
AOL News ^ | March 13, 2009, 8:02am |
Sen. Dave Gregg points out blow by blow the HYPOCRISY riddled through Obama’s Budget entitled ironically, “A New Era of Fiscal Responsibility.”
Gregg writes, “The argument that this budget doesn’t have tax increases is, I think, an Alice and Wonderland view of the budget.”
-Raising the tax rate from 35% to 42%, eliminating deductions on mortgages and on charitable deductions. Small businesses will be feel the burden the most.
-“Cutting the debt in half in four years is truly spurious, because you take the deficit and quadruple it, and then you cut it in half, that’s like taking four steps back and two steps forward. You’re not making any progress. You’re still going backwards.”
-Raising “a massive sales tax, a national sales tax on everybody’s electric bill, especially people in the Midwest and the Northeast. And what do you do with that revenue? You don’t use it to contain the size of government. You use it to expand government.
"There’s a representation that 80 percent of the first billion is going to go for your make-work-pay tax credit, but the next 20 percent goes to raise the size of the government.
And then on top of that you’re going to get another 0 billion potentially, and there’s no representation of that coming back to taxpayers."
"In fact, there’s specific language which makes it pretty clear that that’s going to be used as walking around money for various constituencies that are interested in spending it."
"They may be worthwhile constituencies, but it’s a heck of a tax burden to put on the American people.
And it represents a massive expansion in the size of government.
I guess that’s my big problem here."
ooops, I got Gregg’s first name wrong…. but I think you know about this man…. smile..
yet, its AOL… because the major news networks have been discredited as purveyers of lies..
HAM O BAM A
for the record: obama’s goons approached Gregg…… then lied to cover their behinds since obama can’t stand to loose….ego-centric
Yes. Gregg would not lower himself to Obama’s level of expectations. Gregg ripped Geithner a new one yesterday. Obama needs people like him on his team but cannot get them now.
AOL News points out a single person that disagrees with Obama. Amazing, I like how they found a single person that disagrees with one of his policies. Thanks for pointing this out, I didn’t know someone doesn’t like Obama’s fiscal plan somewhere. Imagine…if AOL didn’t do this, I would have never known that one guy diagrees with that one policy.
imho, it would be pretty tough to be Commerce Secretary in an administration that is anti-business. I think Sen. Gregg wised up to that just in time.
I don’t know who Senator Dave Gregg is, but President Obama did not nominate him to be Commerce Secretary; he nominated Senator Judd Gregg, a Republican from New Hampshire. Judd Gregg withdrew his nomination after questions were raised about his role in channeling some $66 million in federal funds to a project from which he and his brother personally benefitted.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090227/ap_on_go_co/gregg_real_estate
No…Gregg withdrew his nomination when he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar(government fraud)
You "got the name wrong"? How is that if this is copied from an article… Bogus post. I guess that’s why there’s no direct link.
Please show your source of information please, cannot agree with this piece of garbage without sources.Thank you.
Obama has zero Republican support and a new poll shows him at 43% approval rating showing even independents are abandoning him.
For the record the Senator requested a position in Obamas Cabinet and Obama obliged as a uniter would and the Senator withdrew get your facts straight.He even apologized for requesting the position and then backing out.