Most Democrats and Republicans alike saw fit to allow the Obama Administration to continue fighting what has become the longest war in American history and opposed holding the military to its budget as well, contradicting their previous speeches about the dangers of out of control spending.
James McGovern spoke this week in favor of a shift of spending away from Afghanistan and back toward domestic needs.
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.
Long wars like the one in Afghanistan require huge amounts of spending and the maintenance of huge government bureaucracies.
Dennis Rehberg may do a lot of talking about the need for cuts in spending, but the truth is that he’s among the biggest earmark spenders in the House of Representatives.
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.
When it comes to the military budget, Senator Jon Kyl abandons the very principles of fiscal responsibility that seemed so forthright in his speech yesterday.
The federal budget is much bigger than just a few earmarks, or a portion of a Representative’s salary, and voter evaluation of Ron Kind’s fiscal responsibility needs to encompass this bigger picture, not just the posture suggested by a few convenient talking points.
If Representative Kirkpatrick is going to be truly effective in working to cut government spending, she will need to do more than just fiddle around on the margins.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart and his brother Mario (also a U.S. Respresentative) have accepted donations from Susan and Edmund Benson, the founders and directors of the Arise Foundation. Perhaps this relationship helps Diaz-Balart see beyond his opposition to federal government spending that he applies to the rest of the nation
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