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DFL Attacks Mark Kennedy on Taxes
Well, the DFL slime machine is at it again. This week, they are claiming that Congressman Mark Kennedy voted to increase federal spending by $3.6 TRILLION. What they count as a major part of that "spending" is making the Bush tax cuts permanent. Apparently, in the eyes of the left, this constitutes spending. I call it returning to the American people what RIGHTFULLY belongs to them.
Here's a clip from the DFL website(http://www.dfl.org/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC=%7B0F9701BD-A72C-4F2C-9DEE-22ACBB7367C2%7D&DE=%7B4062FE0C-89DD-4751-B67C-FE357F7352C5%7D sorry about the long URL...not real keen on linking to the DFL site):
If you add up the cost of only eleven of the one hundred plus proposals in Kennedy's plan, Kennedy's plan will cost the taxpayers at least $3.6 trillion. Only Mark Kennedy would say that $3.6 trillion in government spending is an "insignificant cost.""Congressman Kennedy is campaigning on his 'fiscal responsibility' but has not taken the time to calculate the cost of his plan or explain how he is going to pay for it," Minnesota DFL Chair Brian Melendez said. "Only a big-spending Washington insider would think that $3.6 trillion is an 'insignificant cost.' One look at the federal budget tells us that we need someone in the U.S. Senate who understands the implications of $3.6 trillion in spending, and Mark Kennedy clearly doesn't understand."
Estimates Of Even A Few Items From Congressman Kennedy's Plan Could Total $3.6 Trillion Dollars
Congressman Kennedy voted for budgets that increased the national debt by $2.7 trillion. And now Kennedy is proposing at least another $3.6 trillion in spending without telling anyone how he will pay for any of it.
The hit piece then goes into an outline of some of the spending, number one being:
1. The Total Cost To Extend All Of the Bush Tax Cuts Would Be $3.3 Trillion Over 10 Years. The total cost of making the tax cuts permanent was said to be $3.3 trillion over 10 years. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "[T]he total cost of making the tax cuts permanent, including the related interest costs, would be $3.3 trillion over the ten-year period.." [Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 3/15/06, (http://www.cbpp.org/2-6-06tax.htm)]
Leave it to the Liberal Left to tell you that tax cuts are the same as Federal spending. The numbers presented for the tax cuts may well be accurate estimates; what it fails to note is that since the tax cuts were implemented tax revenues INCREASED.
However, the Party of Doom and Gloom would have Americans believe that these tax cuts are expensive and should be rolled back, after which there is little doubt that they will find ways to seize and spend even more of our hard earned dollars.
The other 10 items use estimates to come up with roughly $300 billion in spending; just one thing to remember, these are estimates. Estimates rarely reflect reality, except when government entities decide they actually have to spend that kind of money (and these bureaucrats often believe they HAVE to spend it) even if it is not necessary.
Just another indication that campaign season is in full swing.
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