Our taxes help Dems campaign
Bensblurb # 533 Our taxes help Democrats campaign
My wife woke up grouchy this morning. Thus aroused, I resolved to think nice thoughts for a change. Then heartburn (aka ObamaCare-itis) returned. Not only, I realized, are we now saddled with a huge new Fed takeover of medicine that will bankrupt us (see Krauthammer below). Our taxpayer money is now being used to persuade us that it’s a good thing. And by the way, help democrats keep their seats in elections next fall. Grrrr.
Krauthammer, in today’s Washington Post: “We are now $8 trillion in debt. Congressional Budget Office projects that $12 trillion will be added over the next decade. ObamaCare, when stripped of its budgetary gimmicks...the 10-6 sleight-of-hand (counting 10 years of revenue and only six years of outflows)...is at minimum a $2 trillion new entitlement. It will vastly increase the debt...This is fiscally disastrous...”
Today's other big news story “...is the democrats' claim that some of their congressmen have been threatened with violence after voting for the government's takeover of health care... Threats of violence, sadly, are not uncommon in politics...Even insignificant conservatives like us have been threatened with violence...Jim Bunning received threats after he temporarily held up the extension of unemployment benefits a few weeks ago. The current threats...are being played up in the press because the democrats want to dampen the anger that has erupted [from] millions of Americans who regard ObamaCare not just as misguided public policy, but as an illegitimate usurpation of power."----John Hinderaker, in Power Line.
Closer to home: “With the democrats pushing through the federal takeover of our healthcare system, running up trillions of dollars of debt, and passing massive spending and “stimulus” bills, you know our federal taxes will continue to rise. Fortunately here in Richmond we have a leader who understands that the people of Virginia can spend their money more effectively than the government. Under Gov. Bob McDonnell, Virginia was able to balance the state budget and eliminate a $2.3 billion budget deficit without raising taxes.”--Va. GOP
---Ben Blankenship
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My wife woke up grouchy this morning. Thus aroused, I resolved to think nice thoughts for a change. Then heartburn (aka ObamaCare-itis) returned. Not only, I realized, are we now saddled with a huge new Fed takeover of medicine that will bankrupt us (see Krauthammer below). Our taxpayer money is now being used to persuade us that it’s a good thing. And by the way, help democrats keep their seats in elections next fall. Grrrr.
Krauthammer, in today’s Washington Post: “We are now $8 trillion in debt. Congressional Budget Office projects that $12 trillion will be added over the next decade. ObamaCare, when stripped of its budgetary gimmicks...the 10-6 sleight-of-hand (counting 10 years of revenue and only six years of outflows)...is at minimum a $2 trillion new entitlement. It will vastly increase the debt...This is fiscally disastrous...”
Today's other big news story “...is the democrats' claim that some of their congressmen have been threatened with violence after voting for the government's takeover of health care... Threats of violence, sadly, are not uncommon in politics...Even insignificant conservatives like us have been threatened with violence...Jim Bunning received threats after he temporarily held up the extension of unemployment benefits a few weeks ago. The current threats...are being played up in the press because the democrats want to dampen the anger that has erupted [from] millions of Americans who regard ObamaCare not just as misguided public policy, but as an illegitimate usurpation of power."----John Hinderaker, in Power Line.
Closer to home: “With the democrats pushing through the federal takeover of our healthcare system, running up trillions of dollars of debt, and passing massive spending and “stimulus” bills, you know our federal taxes will continue to rise. Fortunately here in Richmond we have a leader who understands that the people of Virginia can spend their money more effectively than the government. Under Gov. Bob McDonnell, Virginia was able to balance the state budget and eliminate a $2.3 billion budget deficit without raising taxes.”--Va. GOP
---Ben Blankenship
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
6:50 AM
