The House Dem-Obama Plan: More Job-Killing Taxes for More Failed Stimulus Spending

February 14, 2012

FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Jason Altmire (PA-04), John Barrow (GA-12), Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Lois Capps (CA-24), Russ Carnahan (MO-03), Kathy Castor (FL-11), Ben Chandler (KY-06), David Cicilline (RI-01), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Cooper (TN-05), Jim Costa (CA-16), Mark Critz (PA-12), Peter DeFazio (OR-04), John Garamendi (CA-03), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Brian Higgins (NY-27), Jim Himes (CT-04), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Kathy Hochul (NY-26), Tim Holden (PA-17), Rush Holt (NJ-12), Steve Israel (NY-02), Bill Keating (MA-09), Ron Kind (WI-03), Larry Kissell (NC-08), Rick Larsen (WA-02), David Loebsack (IA-02), Jim Matheson (UT-02), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Jerry McNerney (CA-09), Michael Michaud (ME-02), Bill Owens (NY-23), Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Gary Peters (MI-09), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Loretta Sanchez (CA-46), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), Adam Smith (WA-09), Betty Sutton (OH-16), John Tierney (MA-06), Paul Tonko (NY-21), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Pete Visclosky (IN-01), Tim Walz (MN-01), John Yarmuth (KY-03)

The Matheson-Obama Plan: More Job-Killing Taxes for More Failed Stimulus Spending
Utah Democrat’s Party Leaders Put Forward a Budget That Permanently Embraces Their Failed Big-Government Policies

Washington — Instead of offering an alternative to years of failed leadership and policies, Jim Matheson’s Democrat leaders have made it clear they never intend to quit taxing, spending and borrowing to protect their big-government priorities. Matheson’s constituents in Utah are looking for a new direction after years of Democrat stimulus packages and tax hike proposals, but instead it seems he is poised to double down on these failed policies even further.

“Jim Matheson’s Democrat leaders are shamelessly doubling down on their policies of more job-killing taxes to pay for even more wasteful stimulus spending,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “After years of these failed big-government policies from Washington, Matheson’s constituents in Utah are certainly looking for a new direction that he and his fellow Democrats seem unwilling to consider.”

House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi tried to paint the Democrats’ budget as a new direction after years of failed policies that have ballooned the deficit and impeded economic growth:

“‘President Obama has laid out an innovative blueprint for restoring opportunity for all Americans and for constructing an economy that is built to last,’ Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., stated.” (John Parkinson, “Republicans Detest, Democrats Defend President Obama’s Budget,” ABC News The Note Blog, 2/13/12)

The budget only doubles down on the same failed policies, with $1.5 trillion in new taxes to pay for even more stimulus spending:

“The budget calls for $1.5 trillion in tax increases over 10 years, which Mr. Obama will campaign on as a way to pay for measures that would strengthen the economy in the short term while reducing the federal budget deficit in the long term.” (Damian Paletta and Laura Meckler, “Budget Sets Stage for Year-End Clash,” The Wall Street Journal, 2/13/12)

Jim Matheson’s Democrat leaders have clearly decided that they intend to continue pushing for job-killing taxes to pay for wasteful stimulus spending with no end in sight. After years of failure, Matheson and his fellow Democrats seem oblivious to the fact that their policies have left American middle-class families responsible for more government debt and worse off than before.

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