Doubletalk: Speaker Pelosi's Washington-Speak Can't Mask Tax-and-Spend Agenda
Out-of-Touch Dems Push for "Drastic Tax Increases" for Every American Taxpayer, "More Cash" for Gov't Stimulus Spending
Washington,
Oct 22, 2009 -
When is a tax hike not a tax hike? When is a ‘stimulus’ not a ‘stimulus’? Just ask House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA.)
Just hours after claiming that billions in new government spending would not add up to a “stealth stimulus,” Speaker Pelosi asserted that ending the tax cuts enacted by Congress in 2001 and 2003 would not be a tax increase. As senior members of her own party have pointed out, ending this tax relief “would mean a drastic tax increase for tens of millions of American families.” Of course, this proves once again how out-of-touch Washington Democrats have become with families struggling to make ends meet and asking, “where are the jobs?” More importantly, it makes plain Washington Democrats’ economic agenda: “drastic tax increases” for every American taxpayer and “more cash” to grow government. The Speaker’s Washington doubletalk only increases the anxiety Americans are feeling during these tough economic times. Republicans have offered better solutions to create jobs and get our economy moving again by cutting taxes and holding the line on spending.
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) commented on Speaker Pelosi’s Washington doubletalk and the devastating consequences of Democrats’ job-killing agenda:
“Washington Democrats continue to grow more out-of-touch with families struggling to make ends meet. Speaker Pelosi’s Washington doubletalk can’t mask the fact that she wants every American taxpayer to pay higher taxes and be on the hook for more debt in order to pay for her job-killing agenda. Washington Democrats can’t spend, tax, and borrow their way out of their disastrous economic record. Republicans have offered better solutions to create jobs and get our economy moving again by cutting taxes and holding the line on spending.”
WASHINGTON DOUBLETALK ON TAX INCREASES:
• MARIA BARTIROMO: “But-- on the tax issue, allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire would essentially be tax increase.” SPEAKER PELOSI: “It isn’t a tax increase. It is-- it is-- eliminating a tax-- decrease that was there.” (CNBC, 10/21/09)
REALITY: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT): “Those tax cuts, and a lot of other ones, expire at the end of 2010. Allowing these tax cuts to expire would mean a drastic tax increase for tens of millions of American families.” (Statement, 3/26/09)
Roberton Williams, Senior Fellow, Tax Policy Center: “No one wants to see them all expire – it would be a large tax increase.” (CNNMoney.com, 6/2/08)
J.D. Foster, former Treasury Department economist: “Allowing any of the current law tax provisions enacted in 2001 or 2003 to expire is a tax hike.” (Heritage Foundation, 8/11/08)
WASHINGTON DOUBLETALK ON THE “STEALTH STIMULUS:”
• SPEAKER PELOSI: “We do not have a plan for an additional stimulus package.” (The New York Times, 10/22/09)
REALITY: “It looks like another stimulus package. It sounds like a stimulus package. It spends like a stimulus package. [Speaker Pelosi’s] economic advisers are even calling it another stimulus.” (Roll Call, 10/21/09)
“But, despite record budget deficits, House leaders plan to pour more cash into” ‘stimulus spending. (The Washington Post, 10/22/09)
“Those plans are expected to total at least $100 billion.” (The New York Times, 10/22/09)
“Like it or not, here comes more stimulus. And you won’t hear the White House call it stimulus. But there’s a good chance lawmakers will decide to extend some of the stimulus measures…” (CNNMoney.com, 10/21/09)
“The White House Readies a Stealth Stimulus… More stimulus is coming, but it just won’t be called stimulus.” (TIME, 10/19/09)
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