I reported yesterday on representative David Obey and his bozo plan to raise taxes supposedly to pay for the war. Mike Soraghan over at The Hill reports that that idea is, for the moment, dead in the water.
All told, the Democratic proposal for an “Iraq tax” lasted about four hours. That’s roughly the amount of time from when House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) gave life to the idea with his endorsement to when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) strangled it.
“Just as I have opposed the war from the outset, I am opposed to a draft and I am opposed to a war surtax,” Pelosi said in a statement issued this afternoon.
First of all, we know from long hard experience that the money from Democrat tax increases never ends up going where they say it will. That point aside, one must wonder what insight Nancy Pelosi has had to cause her to balk on this one. Here is a woman whose voting record suggests that she’s never met a tax she didn’t like.
One thing I did fail to mention yesterday (I think) was that it wasn’t David Obey who originally proposed this tax. It was James McGovern, the Democrat from Massachusetts. The file this under the category of everything old is new again, and “names that work”. A McGovern proposing such a tax, after all, has some serious historical precedent. It also does not bode very well for the Democrats going forward.
Perhaps Nancy saw that? I wonder.
Addendum (Bit)
The comment from McGovern is worth noting. He’s saying It’s unfair to burden future generations with paying for the war.
This is a laughable statement on two counts:
- It side-steps the entire issue of what future generations would inherit were we to back down form the Islamo-facists as the Democrats have been trying to get us to do.
- It also ignores that the socialist programs the Democrats have been burdening both us and future generations with, are, unlike the war on terror, are of no benefit whatever to future generations who will have to pay for it all… they are specifically designed to address the immidieate need of Democrats to buy votes with taxpayer dollars, paid direcly to their core voters. Funny how ‘fairness’ doesn’t come up in that context, huh?
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