Credit Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, for trying to promote fiscal accountability on Capitol Hill, but his bill to subject federal programs to the scrutiny of a base-closing-style commission was pulled from the House floor last week after it drew too much resistance from Tiahrt’s fellow Republicans. The measure might live again after the August recess. If so, it will face criticism such as that expressed last week by Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., who said that “we don’t need a commission to evaluate these agencies; that’s what we’re elected for.” To which the obvious response is: Then, by all means, evaluate these agencies’ effectiveness and spending.
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This is just more evidence that the Republican Nat’l Committee and the Bush Admin. don’t care to watch the purse strings because they wish to bankrupt the federal government in being unable to function – “starving the beast” is what some of them say. Adding to that equation of course is eliminating revenue sources every time they have a chance – but only by eliminating taxes paid by the rich and huge corporations.
What we need is to evaluate our representatives. With a 98% re-election rate, no wonder they feel impervious to the people that elected them, and therefore can spend like mad and raise their salaries every year.
I doubt anything will change. We hate Congress yet love our Congressperson.
In a republican congress, the only programs that would get the chopping block are those that help American citizens. This is just phase two, drive the country to bankruptcy, then cut social programs as a result. Same ol’, same ol’.
KellyThe best way to get the “rich” to pay more taxes is to lower tax rates.When J.C. Penneys or Dillard’s want to increase cash flow, they have a SALE.Tax rate cuts do the same thing. High tax rates reduce transactions. Property with huge capital gain exposure is sold when rates are cut, that property might not have ever been sold without the rate cut.The “rich” are paying a higher proportion of total taxes paid now than they were under Clinton.
They pay more taxes because they’ve stolen more money from the rapidly shrinking middle class.
Stoled money! LOL!
Yeah! The income gap. But people fail to mention, that in the USA, we have mobility in that income gap. But since it takes hard work, most people won’t do anything about it but complain about their status in life.
Taxing the rich more and more doesn’t put a single cent in a poor persons pocket. What do you get by taxing the rich to hell? You just feel good for punishing people for being successful.
Paul your argument is flawed. It is based on the assumption that what money the rich will get from lower taxes will be spent and thus boost the economy. But the fact is the wealthier people save and invest more of their money than the poor. This saved/invested money really doesn’t do anything to help the people who would have benefited if that money were taxes instead.
And you also neglect that quite often when a store has a sale it is to get rid of merchandise. It is cheaper to sell the items at cost than to store them for a year and hope they could be sold possibly risking not selling anything because it isn’t the style and lose all of the money they invested.
Paul is a kook k. Don’t try reason with him. Laugh at him.
JR, instead I think some of us might cry as he is typical of the inbred, hillbilly, snake handling voter known as kansas ignoramus.
There is no meaningful dialog with stupidity. There is no debate with religious ignorance, especially when the religion is republicanism.
Kansas variety ignorance repeats itself in a loop and is impervious to facts and/or new information.
Kansas… as willfully stupid as you think!
Maybe it should be Kantsas? Hmmm?