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Need anymore reason to be for a balanced budget amendment????????
Michelle Malkin » Steny Hoyer: A Balanced Budget Amendment Would Make it Virtually Impossible to Raise Taxes
If youre on the fence as far as an opinion on a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution, Steny Hoyer seems to be unwittingly trying to push you in the pro direction:
(CNSNews.com) House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D.-Md.) said on the House floor last night that if the balanced budget amendment Republicans are supporting is ratified and included in the Constitution it would make it virtually impossible to raise taxes.
In order to pay our bills, Republicans would require us to pass a Constitutional amendment that would permanently enshrine their partisan budget priorities in law and make it virtually impossible to raise revenue, Hoyer said.
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Hoyer was evidently alluding to the amendments requirement that taxes could only be increased with a supermajority vote of Congress when he said the proposal would make it virtually impossible to raise revenue.
It might make it virtually impossible to raise taxes, which is Hoyers obvious concern, but hes wrong in saying it would make it virtually impossible to raise revenue. That part isnt hard at all. Shrink government, back off and watch the economy grow the revenue will come. That was the Reagan philosophy, and what DC Democrat isnt running around these days quoting Reagan?
Theyre all about Reagan at the moment because Reagan raised the debt ceiling many times. Democrats even used snippets excised with surgical precision from one of Reagans radio addresses in an ad. But what theyre not playing are other sections of the same address:
You dont need more taxes to balance the budget. Congress needs the discipline to stop spending more, and that can be done with the passage of a constitutional amendment to balance the budget.
Theres the Republican response to the Democrat ad right there. I dont recall ever hearing Reagan expressing concern that a potential Balanced Budget Amendment would make it too difficult for the government to raise taxes. That might have been a reason hed have supported it, but Ill bet a case of jelly beans it wouldnt have been a deal-breaker.
Michelle Malkin » Steny Hoyer: A Balanced Budget Amendment Would Make it Virtually Impossible to Raise Taxes