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We've been asking both parties for years to come up with an actual plan that had thought and time put into it. Well now we have one from the Republican side. Instead of complaining, liberals, why don't you at least propose something substantial yourselves? Unless your idea of a budget is voting on continuing resolutions every two weeks.
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The president established a commission that brought forth a proposal. By association with the president it is a liberal proposal. That's all that was asked by the original post.
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The president established a commission that brought forth a proposal. By association with the president it is a liberal proposal. That's all that was asked by the original post.
Wasn't that a bi-partisan commission? When liberals criticize Ryan for his budget, I want a BUDGET in response to that. Something that, with a few tweaks, could become law. Not a bunch of proposals, recommendations and talking points.
We've been asking both parties for years to come up with an actual plan that had thought and time put into it. Well now we have one from the Republican side. Instead of complaining, liberals, why don't you at least propose something substantial yourselves? Unless your idea of a budget is voting on continuing resolutions every two weeks.
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Individual income tax policies
1. Extend marriage relief, credits, and incentives for children, families, and education, but let the upper-income tax cuts expire and let tax brackets revert to Clinton-era rates
2. Index the AMT for inflation for a decade (AMT patch paid for)
3. Rescind the upper-income tax cuts in the tax deal
4. Schakowsky millionaire tax rates proposal (adding 45%, 46%, and 47% top rates)
5. Progressive estate tax (Sanders estate tax, repeal of Kyl-Lincoln)
6. Tax capital gains and qualified dividends as ordinary income
Corporate tax reform
1. Tax U.S. corporate foreign income as it is earned
2. Eliminate corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies
3. Enact a financial crisis responsibility fee
4. Financial speculation tax (derivatives, foreign exchange)
Health care
1. Enact a public option
2. Negotiate Rx payments with pharmaceutical companies
3. CMS program integrity and other Medicare and Medicaid savings in the president’s budget.
4. Prevent a cut in Medicare physician payments for a decade (maintain doc fix)
Social Security
1. Raise the taxable maximum on the employee side to 90% of earnings and eliminate the
taxable maximum on the employer side
2. Increase benefits based on higher contributions on the employee side
Defense savings
1. End overseas contingency operations emergency supplementals starting in 2013, providing $170 billion in FY2012 funding for withdrawal
2. Reduce baseline Defense spending by reducing strategic capabilities, conventional
forces, procurement, and R&D programs
Job Creation
1. Invest $1.45 trillion in job creation, early childhood, K-12 and special education, quality child care, energy and broadband infrastructure, housing, and R&D
2. Infrastructure bank
3. Surface transportation reauthorization bill
4. Finance surface transportation reauthorization
Ask, and you shall receive. Of course, a sane budget like that has no chance of getting passed. I also notice a DISTINCT lack of coverage for this budget compared Ryan's corporate backed Path to "Prosperity" (for the rich and corporate).
Ask, and you shall receive. Of course, a sane budget like that has no chance of getting passed. I also notice a DISTINCT lack of coverage for this budget compared Ryan's corporate backed Path to "Prosperity" (for the rich and corporate).
I did hear that Ryan's budget is heavy on corporate welfare but I need to read about it much more before I can comment.
We've been asking both parties for years to come up with an actual plan that had thought and time put into it. Well now we have one from the Republican side. Instead of complaining, liberals, why don't you at least propose something substantial yourselves? Unless your idea of a budget is voting on continuing resolutions every two weeks.
I'd love to propose something substantial: taxing the rich, but it's too late for that. I'd have alot of other ideas for increased revenue too but they'd all require change which is unacceptable to you backward Conservatives.
Your post is hilarious, like ONLY cutting spending matters.
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