I hate them. I really do hate them. Conservatives unveil alternative budget with $9.1 trillion in

[cali]

cuts.

I wish nothing but awful things for these people.


By Erik Wasson and Jason Millman - 04/08/11 08:32 AM ET

The House Republican Study Committee (RSC) on Thursday released an alternative to the 2012 budget resolution from Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that would cut $9.1 trillion in spending over the next decade.

The RSC, a 176-member caucus, will offer its “Honest Solutions” plan as a floor amendment to the budget resolution next week. The House Budget Committee passed the GOP budget plan late Wednesday.

Like a failed RSC effort in February to cut $40 billion more from 2011 spending, the amendment is expected to fail, but it sends a strong signal to GOP leadership and to Democrats that there's backing for going even further than Ryan's plan on spending cuts.

RSC leaders emphasized that their alternative was not a revolt against Ryan’s budget plan, which is backed by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the rest of the Republican leadership.


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http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/154591-conservative-bloc-unveils-alternative-budget-with-91t-in-cuts

[Nevernose]

1. Actually sounds pretty reasonable.

I'm SURE that's 4.5 trillion in military spending and 4.6 trillion in gutting corporate welfare, right? :)

I -- like most DUers -- honestly don't understand how they can look their children in the eye and not collapse in waves of shame and regret.

[MiniMe]

7. They are for cutting spending, not increasing revenue

[Jmaxfie1]

2. This just seems like posturing to me. n/t

[Possumpoint]

3. So What Do You Want To Do?

Continue to spend well beyond the income received by the government?

I have my ideas on how to cut spending and I'm sure you have yours. In any event, we cannot continue to spend trillions more then what is received in tax revenue. My ideas start with shutting down all wars and the Empire. Shutting all foreign bases and returning all troops and equipment home. Stopping all foreign aid. That's only the beginning but I'm not going to bore you with the rest other then to say I'm interested in a balanced budget and flat tax with a concentration on our citizens, not the rest of the world.

[cali]

4. oh please. this isn't about cutting spending. It's about shredding the

safety net. Of course there are ways to cut spending- starting with the obscene military budget. And fuck no to a flat tax.

[davidthegnome]

5. The flat tax is a very controversial issue

in my neck of the woods. My Father thinks it's a great idea - provided we could find a way to prevent the wealthier folks worming their way out through loopholes.

One suggestion he had was that everyone who earned over 30K a year could pay 15% of their total income, exceptions, no ifs ands or buts, do it or go to jail. Hell of a lot less than most pay now - and if it applied to everyone... including the corporate types...

Now I'm no economics major, I really have no clue if that's a reasonable alternative to our current system. Still, we have to change something... and the chances of the richest among us being given their fair share of the burden? Slim to none. If we could, I'd say tax the shit out of the corporations that have been cheating the system for years - apply penalties, whatever. Nationalize them and grind them into dust if we have to. Corporate wealth and power is simply out of control.

[cali]

6. look, I believe in a progressive tax system

and that someone who makes $30,000 should pay the same percentage tax as someone making 40 million, disgusts me.

[ladjf]

9. Raise the taxes on the wealthy to a realistic and fair level. nt

[ladjf]

8. Sadistic fairy tales. nt