Price Amendment Would Have Protected American Taxpayers
Washington, DC – Rep. Tom Price (GA-06-R) issued the following statement after proposing an amendment to the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 2641), which would reduce funding for this bill by one percent. Rep. Price plans to introduce a similar amendment to several other appropriations bills in which the level of discretionary spending has gotten out of control. The National Taxpayer Union has chosen to endorse Rep. Price’s plan for fiscal restraint.
“The American people are sick and tired of paying for Washington’s out-of-control spending,” said Price. “If Congress is truly interested in honoring its promise of fiscal responsibility, we must make tough decisions and actually lower our level of spending.
“My amendment is a small step, only cutting one penny on the dollar. However, it is an important step in the right direction by showing hard-working American taxpayers that we are actively finding ways to save their money rather than spend it. I plan on offering this amendment and similar measures in the future, so that my fellow conservative colleagues and I may exercise our duty to protect the American wallet.
“It is obvious, by all accounts, that this new majority prefers to pass bloated budgets and lay the bill at the feet of the American people, their children and grandchildren. This is not responsible action and will not balance our nation’s budget.”
Editorial advocating tax cuts was just more liberal blather STEVEN ESPOSITO Ballston Spa
Your Aug. 12 editorial supporting a tax increase on gasoline is a typical and predictable liberal response to a problem: Raise taxes and throw the money at it! The infrastructure in the United States is not “dilapidated,” as you put it. It is aging and has been aging for the past 25 years. Our politicians, both Republican and Democrat, would rather build stadiums, like the new Viking football stadium in Minnesota, or tunnels like the Big Dig in Boston. Money for infrastructure repair does not make for a nice ribbon-cutting photo-op. There is plenty of money to begin infrastructure repair right now. How we allocate the money is the problem. The president hit the nail on the head when he said that Congress needs to change the rules when it allocates federal highway money to the states. Maybe a little less new construction and a greater emphasis on maintenance and repair. Your assertion that the war in Iraq (part of the overall war on terror by the way) has siphoned money away from infrastructure repair, children’s health insurance and other basic services is just flat out wrong. Blaming the Bush tax cuts for draining the U.S. Treasury and high deficits is also completely dishonest. Let’s get the facts straight: The tax cuts have been the driving force behind pulling the country out of the recession handed to Bush after the Clinton-Gore economic surge ran out of steam. When 9/11 hit us, the stock market nearly tanked. The tax cuts put money back in the pocket of the taxpayer. The result has been a strong and sustained economic boom that has reduced unemployment to record levels, vanquished inflation and created millions of jobs. Your position, and the position of the Democrats, is that money can only be raised by taxation. Wrong! More money is flowing into the U.S. Treasury now than ever before. The deficits have been revised downward several times as people work and pay their taxes. Regarding the tax cuts “for the rich,” let’s be honest here. These are the facts from the IRS: 85 percent of federal taxes are paid by 25 percent of the taxpayers; the top 50 percent of the wage earners pay 96 percent of the taxes; and the top 1 percent of the wage earners pay 36 percent of the taxes. Of course, a tax cut gives a six-figure wage earner a bigger rebate — this person is paying more to begin with. A lower-wage earner gets less back because this person paid less. You cannot look at the dollar amounts that a tax cut delivers to wage earners at opposite ends of the spectrum. You must look at what percent the tax cut saved of that person’s total income.
You are correct about the rational view of the ratio of income-taxes paid Mr. Esposito,,,,but I would wonder at the "legislative loopholes" for their 'friends'.......
I cant afford/have a 'friend' to loophole my taxes...and now I have to take time to fill out paperwork to get a rebate that is my $$ to begin with and they should have the info from last year already....dont we pay state workers to take care/track of that info????
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
a typical and predictable liberal response to a problem: Raise taxes and throw the money at it!
The dems/libs have done this for decades and have NOT solved a problem as of yet!! Same problems exist, except we have bigger government!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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