Democrats Calling For $600 Billion Tax Increase

6-12-09

Democrats are slowly leaking the details of their health care proposal ... calling for more than $600 billion in tax increases and a price tag exceeding $1 trillion:

Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.

Democrats will work on the bill's details next week as they struggle through "what kind of heartburn" it will cause to agree on how to pay for revamping the health-care system, Rangel, a New York Democrat, said today. He also said the measure's cost will reach beyond the $634 billion President Barack Obama proposed in his budget request to Congress as a down payment for the policy changes.

Asked whether the cost of a health-care overhaul would be more than $1 trillion, Rangel said, "the answer is yes."

House Democrats plan to release their legislation next week. Obama has made a health-care overhaul a top domestic priority and is working with Congress to get legislation to his desk by October.

Voters Turning On Big-Spending Democrats

6-12-09

Powerline Blog has a good post last night on the fact that voters are turning on the free-spending Democrats' economic policies:

The Democrats continue to press policies on the American people of which most voters don't approve. The latest evidence is from today's Rasmussen survey, which finds 53% of voters saying that more government spending will hurt the economy:

Do increases in government spending help the economy, 
hurt the economy, or have no impact on the economy?
Help 27%
Hurt 53%
No impact 10%
Not sure 10%

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Democrats' $1.75 Billion Big Labor Windfall

6-9-09

The Employee "No" Choice Act would strip workers of their right to vote by secret ballot in union organizing elections, strangle economic growth and allow government bureaucrats to impose union contracts on employees and employers. Employees lose, employers lose, Big Labor bosses win ... who else wins?

Passing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would result in millions in additional political funds for organized labor over the next 10 years, a business group opposed to the legislation will argue in a report to be released Tuesday.

Unions would stand to gain an additional $320 million more to spend on political activities in year ten alone with a ten year total of $1.75 billion, according to a report put together by the anti-EFCA Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI).

Since 1990, 92 percent of Big Labors' campaign spending supported Democrat candidates.

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