Senator Hatch’s own words….
“We’ve been down this road before,” he said. “In 1990 Congress and the president struck a deficit reduction deal that combined spending cuts with tax increases. Unfortunately, while the tax hikes remained, the spending restraint did not, and our debt has marched higher.”
The Reality:
Courtesy of TPM
So if you knock off the 74% overspent on both wars, and knock off the 32% overspent on the Medicare Medical Profit Enhancement Act signed by Bush in 2003, spending is flat relative to GDP.
Revenue isn’t… Hatch says it worked great then… As reality shows, the only difference between then and now, is we aren’t taxing enough… Any Republican who says we are taxing too much, is like Hatch, a big, fat liar….
Poor Roger Clemens: Apparently it’s more of a crime to lie before Congress, than it is for a member of Congress to blatantly lie on CNN to the American people?
Did he just say (1:00) “although the tax hikes remained (uhh, is he so old his memory skipped over the Bush tax cuts?) … our spending cuts (see above chart) did not?
Caught in the act, Big Fat Liar…. Got some water to pour on to your pants?
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July 16, 2011 at 1:54 pm
kavips
I have always admired Senator Hatch. He is a good man, and votes for the people of Utah, and does not always march in sync with party leadership. That is what I call a good man. Obviously, my issue is not with him. My issue is with the lie he told.
The reason our deficit is too big is because Republicans spent for two wars and a Medicare Bill without paying for either.
The rest of discretionary spending is maxed as low as it can go…
Here is a question: Would Republicans like Orrin Hatch support a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution, if it stated that when expenses outdid revenue, taxes on the top one percent must be raised until the deficit was zero, and the budget balanced?
That way we could take care of all our needs, and once Congress agreed on the minimum amount of what we needed to run this country for a year, taxes would be assessed to cover it….
If so, that is a balanced budget I could get behind…………..