(1) IT
INCREASES SPENDING BY OVER $50 BILLION DOLLARS. PERIOD.
“New
discretionary spending” would be increased by $26,300,000,000 this year, $21,
600,000,000 next year (fiscal year 2015), and $8,600,000,000 in fiscal year
2016. Thus, the total discretionary spending increases for three years is
$56,500,000,000. This budget’s projections concerning spending in 2023 or any
other out-year aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
Even the fake
spending offsets are only $2.625 billion this year, $1.830 billion next year,
and $2.026 billion in 2016 — for a total of $6.481 billion. But these are
unenforceable, for reasons which will be discussed later.
But, even
assuming their fake spending “offsets,” the net spending increase as a result
of the Murray-Ryan bill will be slightly over $50 billion.
(2) IT
INCREASES THE DEFICIT BY OVER $45 BILLION. PERIOD.
As a result of
the spending increases above, the deficit would increase $23.226 billion in
2014, $18.154 billion in 2015, and $4.126 billion in 2016 — for a total
deficit/debt increase of $45.506 billion.
(3) IT RAISES
TAXES IN ORDER TO RAISE SPENDING. PERIOD.
The proposed
budget raises a little over $4 billion in “fees” for the next three years.
These tax increases mean they can increase discretionary spending a net of over
$50 billion, but “only” increase the deficit by $45.506 billion.
Many of us have
had problems with this Republican conceit that “user fees” are somehow not
taxes. But, even for those who embrace “user fees,” the fact is that things
like this bill’s “aviation security fees” are not required to be used — and
will not be used — to increase “aviation security,” but rather to create a
slush fund for more social spending.
(4) THE
INCREASED SPENDING WILL BE SPENT ON DEMOCRATIC PRIORITIES WHICH WILL EXPLODE IN
OUT-YEARS. PERIOD.
Supposedly, new
discretionary spending will be over $55 billion in the next three years, but
will drop to $2 billion in 2018, $600 million in 2019, and nothing after that.
To quote
Speaker John Boehner: “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????”
Massively
expanding programs in the short term doesn’t create a rubric for those programs
to disappear. It insures that they will grow even faster in the future. And
that that $55 billion will be significantly increased in 2017 and beyond.
(5) THE
MURRAY-RYAN BUDGET PURPORTS TO BE “FRUGAL” ONLY BECAUSE OF “OBAMACARE-STYLE
ACCOUNTING.” PERIOD.
The spending
“savings” supposedly come in 2022 and 2023, where “savings” supposedly account
for over $47 billion, and all of the programs we’ve created with our $50
billion-plus in new discretionary spending for the next three years have
supposedly ceased to exist.
But we’ve been
to this movie before, right?
Spending now
and pretending you will somehow be frugal in the future is fraud. Plain and
simple.
How do
Republicans expect the American public to believe them when they attack
ObamaCare’s phony accounting if they vote for the same thing?
(6) A VOTE FOR
THE MURRAY-RYAN BUDGET IS A VOTE TO FUND OBAMACARE, NO MATTER WHAT. PERIOD.
The pundits
have made it quite explicit that the only real “accomplishment” of this deal is
to make it impossible for the GOP to use the power of the purse to achieve
policy changes. No matter what.
Incidentally,
now that Barack Obama has found out that he can object to anything the
Republicans include in an appropriations bill — and his friends in the press
will blast the GOP unless it is taken out — they no longer have any leverage to
do anything.
Make no
mistake: The always-wrong Congressional Budget Office will “find” that repealing
ObamaCare massively increases the federal deficit, making it impossible to do.
But the task
will be made “more impossible” by the fact that section 114(d) includes two
reserve funds: one to repeal the medical device tax and one to redefine the 30-hour
“full time employee” definition. Thus, senators like Al Franken and Elizabeth
Warren can promote their electoral prospects by taking political pressure off
them from their high-tech states. And Obama can tweak the employer mandate,
just as opposition to ObamaCare is reaching a critical mass.
(7) THE
MURRAY-RYAN BUDGET WOULD REMOVE A POINT OF ORDER WHICH HAS BEEN USED TO OBJECT
TO NEW SPENDING. PERIOD.
According to
Budget Committee ranking Republican Jeff Sessions: “…this bill clearly and
unequivocally undermines the ability of the Senate to maintain agreed-upon
statutory spending limits. It legitimizes tax and spend.”
Specifically,
the spending point of order which would be eliminated by Murray-Ryan was
successfully used to kill spending bills in September, November, and December,
2012.
(8) FOR FOREIGN
POLICY HAWKS, THE BILL WOULD SLASH MILITARY COLAS. PERIOD.
Military pensions
would be cut by over $6 billion over 10 years. Is it hypocritical to suppose
that Democrat-opposed cuts vanish in out-years, but Republican-opposed cuts
live forever? Probably not.
(9) THE
MURRAY-RYAN BUDGET WILL CHANGE THE NATIONAL DISCUSSION — TO IMMIGRATION REFORM,
MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES, AND GUN CONTROL. PERIOD.
Some have this
delusional notion that, once the deficit and spending are “off the table,” the
press will resume attacking Obama over ObamaCare. Have they even read the
newspapers recently?
The press has
reverted to its role of “ObamaCare promoter” and Obama cheering section. MSNBC
has made it absolutely clear that the only synergistic impact of passing
Murray-Ryan will be to renew impetus for immigration amnesty. Incidentally, the
amnesty bills on the table would create a net 8,000,000 Democratic voters, and
Republicans could give up the notion of ever winning the White House again.
(10) HARRY REID
JUST DESTROYED THE SENATE AS AN INSTITUTION, AND SHOULD NOT BE REWARDED FOR HIS
FRAUD. PERIOD.
He has treated
Senate Republicans like a doormat. And, if they come to be held in universal
contempt as timorous cowards, that could be one of the few issues which could
stand in the way of their retaking the Senate in 2014.
There are now
15 Democratic Senate seats up in 2014 which are imminently doable. But the
American people don’t like “losers” and they don’t like cowards. And, if this
becomes the perception of Senate Republicans, it could prevent them from taking
over the chamber in 2015.
Source: Red
State, By: Michael Hammond (Diary)
December 14th, 2013 at 09:30 PM http://www.redstate.com/mikehammond/2013/12/14/10-reasons-to-vote-against-the-murray-ryan-giant-spending-and-deficit-increase/
Comments:
Most excess federal spending is dedicated to ruining the
US economy with mal-investment, corruption, bribery, UN Agenda 21
implementation and the creation of a tyrannical central government determined
to remove our ability to support ourselves. They are maintaining unnecessarily
high levels of immigration to keep unemployment high. They want to usher in a
one-party, socialist dictatorship and establish the UN as our global government.
It’s nothing short of treason.
Norb Leahy,
Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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