DeFazio Notes GOP Efforts To Prevent Spending Cuts
Pete DeFazio notes that the House Republicans are protecting huge areas of government programs from spending cuts.
Pete DeFazio notes that the House Republicans are protecting huge areas of government programs from spending cuts.
Lynn Woolsey challenged Boehner to support the elimination of wasteful spending in the U.S. military on weapons systems that the Pentagon itself says it doesn’t want or need.
136 Democrats voted to cut funding for the F-35′s superfluous second engine. 115 Democrats voted to keep the funding in place.
The War Is Making You Poor Act would forbid that additional spending, and require the U.S. government to direct 90 percent of that money to pay for the federal tax on the first $35,000 of every American’s income. Even after this astounding reduction in federal income tax, 16 billion dollars in savings would be left over.
Mike Quigley spoke in the House of Representatives this week, calling upon his Democratic colleagues in Congress to push for cuts to ineffective and inefficient military programs.
With H.J. Res. 23, Trent Franks manages to take an extremist pose without actually getting anything done. Once more, we see that the Franks agenda is made up of a bizarre mix of radicalism and ineffectiveness. If we weren’t in the middle of an economic crisis, these kinds of antics would be entertaining.