Tax and Spend

Bipartisan budget deal increases Pentagon spending and taxes.

Stockman calls deal a joke and betrayal. I call it business as usual.

Budget deal funds Obamacare.

"As Redstate.com’s Daniel Horowitz put it: “At issue is the scheduled sequester cuts for 2014 that will trim back discretionary budget authority from $1.027 trillion to $967 billion. The emerging deal will likely reinstate most of that spending for the next two years.”
Ryan and Murray plan to offset the spending with tax increases on airline tickets, Horwowitz noted.
“Do we really need more airfare taxes in order to fund Obamacare and undo the only spending cuts we’ve ever secured?”"

No you don't.

Large majorities of both parties in the House approve the deal.

I don't know why conservatives would consider this a betrayal by Ryan. When has he ever been anything but a big-government supporter? Don't they remember TARP? Don't they remember his giant, ever-growing budget proposal? The question is why did they ever get fooled into thinking he wanted smaller government?

After Boehner questions their credibility, conservative groups question Boehner's credibility. I like to see the people fighting back against Boehner.

""It's just another example of D.C. elitism. They think they know what's best for the rest of the country and they want us to just sit down and shut up," Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, told ABC News today. "

I love it. I wish the tea party would turn libertarian and quit fighting to reform politicans and government and instead abolish it. As their frustration grows, they will. Rush Limbaugh is starting to sound like a libertarian.

Hopefully the bill will fail in the Senate and Boehner will be ousted.

Sarah Palin nails Republicans.

"No one can argue with the fact that Paul Ryan’s compromise budget bill raises taxes and increases spending. Show me one Republican who got elected on that platform. Spare America the Orwellian word games. If the government is taking money out of your pocket to fund its growing Big Brother operations, it’s a tax. Whether money is taken from you via your phone bill, your airline ticket, or your income, it’s a tax. If politicians can’t be honest about this, it’s time to go home."

She's absolutely right.