Replace All Federal Taxes on Income with the Fair Tax Act , HR 25
Comments from John Boehner
I received this today:
Earlier today, a bipartisan coalition -- including every House Republican -- voted against a trillion-dollar government spending bill that we do not believe is the right approach to getting our economy back on track. In fact, House Republicans developed our own plan that would cost half as much as create more than six million jobs by the end of 2010 – 246,000 of those jobs would be in Ohio.
Our legislation was rejected for a 1,071-page bill that was given to lawmakers barely 12 hours before we voted. Worse, though, is that the entire House of Representatives voted on Tuesday for a new rule that would require legislation be posted online so that you can read it for a full 48 hours before we vote. That’s the kind of accountability and transparency House Republicans believe you deserve.
You deserve to know that the bill will use your tax dollars to buy electric golf carts for the federal government. You deserve to know that the bill will spend $300 million to hybrid cars for the federal government. You deserve to know that the bill will make available to the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) one billion of your tax dollars. And you deserve to know that the bill spends $50 million for an arts endowment and $165 million for fish hatcheries.
I believe you deserve better than this.
Earlier today, a bipartisan coalition -- including every House Republican -- voted against a trillion-dollar government spending bill that we do not believe is the right approach to getting our economy back on track. In fact, House Republicans developed our own plan that would cost half as much as create more than six million jobs by the end of 2010 – 246,000 of those jobs would be in Ohio.
Our legislation was rejected for a 1,071-page bill that was given to lawmakers barely 12 hours before we voted. Worse, though, is that the entire House of Representatives voted on Tuesday for a new rule that would require legislation be posted online so that you can read it for a full 48 hours before we vote. That’s the kind of accountability and transparency House Republicans believe you deserve.
You deserve to know that the bill will use your tax dollars to buy electric golf carts for the federal government. You deserve to know that the bill will spend $300 million to hybrid cars for the federal government. You deserve to know that the bill will make available to the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) one billion of your tax dollars. And you deserve to know that the bill spends $50 million for an arts endowment and $165 million for fish hatcheries.
I believe you deserve better than this.
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Permalink Reply by Tony on
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You should also know that it is impossible to read 1,071 pages in less than 30 hours.
So no one who voted for this bill actually read it.
Change we can believe in?
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Permalink Reply by Jim Tomasik on
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Yes we do deserve better than this. We also deserve FairTax.
We should have had it 8 years ago when The Republicans held majority of the House, Senate and Oval Office.
He said: Worse, though, is that the entire House of Representatives voted on Tuesday for a new rule that would require legislation be posted online so that you can read it for a full 48 hours before we vote. That’s the kind of accountability and transparency House Republicans believe you deserve.
Why was this not put in place during the last 8 years?
The Republican Party played and now we all will pay.
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