I TOLD YOU SO…ONLY MASSIVE TAX INCREASES AND THE GRAPEFRUITS TO HIKE SPENDING AFTER SAYING YOU WANT TO LOWER DEFICITS
…YUP…ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. I REPEAT…THERE WILL BE NO SPENDING CUTS!
The first serious proposals from the White House to solve the looming “fiscal cliff” of tax rises and budget cuts appear to have been rejected out of hand by Republican leaders in Congress.
Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner is reported to have offered a set of proposals that include increasing tax rates on the wealthy, a one-year postponement of scheduled cuts in defence and domestic spending, and $400bn in savings from Medicare and other entitlement programmes.
The proposals from the White House – the first to use hard numbers – include a $1.6tn tax increase, a $50bn stimulus package and new presidential powers to raise the federal debt limit without congressional approval.
But based on public and private comments after their meetings, both House speaker John Boehner and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell – the two most senior Republicans in Congress – brushed aside the proposals as incomplete.
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