#STOPTHETAXHIKE: Democrats Uses Devastating Defense Cuts As “Weapon” in Their Party’s Tax-Increasing Agenda
FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Shelley Adler (NJ-03), Ron Barber (AZ-08), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Lois Capps (CA-24), David Cicilline (RI-01), John Delaney (MD-06), Val Demings (FL-10), Tammy Duckworth (IL-08), Bill Foster (IL-11), Lois Frankel (FL-22), John Garamendi (CA-03), David Gill (IL-13), Alan Grayson (FL-09), Pam Gulleson (ND-AL), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Kathy Hochul (NY-27), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Steve Israel (NY-03), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01), Pat Kreitlow (WI-07), Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), Rick Larsen (WA-02), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Gary McDowell (MI-01), Mike Michaud (ME-02), Joe Miklosi (CO-06), Mark Murphy (NY-11), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), John Oceguera (NV-03), Sal Pace (CO-03), Bill Pascrell (NJ-09), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Brad Schneider (IL-10), Brandon Shaffer (CO-04), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Betty Sutton (OH-16), Syed Taj (MI-11), John Tierney (MA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Christie Vilsack (IA-04), Jamie Wall (WI-08), Charlie Wilson (OH-06)
Hochul Uses Devastating Defense Cuts As “Weapon” in Her Party’s Tax-Increasing Agenda
Washington Democrats Threaten Devastating Military Cuts Because They Refuse to #StopTheTaxHike on Families and Job Creators
WASHINGTON — Across-the-board cuts would severely threaten our national security but Kathy Hochul and her Democrat leaders have already voted to use them as a political pawn so they can get the job-destorying tax hikes they want (Roll Call #8, 8/1/2012). Hochul and her party are doing everything to distract voters and increase their reelection chances, from denying that the cuts will happen to offering defense contractors incentives to break the law and not hand out pink slips days before the election.
“It’s troubling that Kathy Hochul and her party leaders would use the health of our national security as a ‘weapon’ just so they can continue their reckless spending addiction,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “New York families and small business owners do not want these devastating defense cuts and can’t afford more taxes just so Kathy Hochul can continue spending their tax dollars.”
In the third presidential debate, President Obama attempted to distract from the Democrats’ job-destroying policies after the election:
“’First of all, the sequester is not something that I proposed. It’s something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen. The budget that we’re talking about is not reducing our military spending, it’s maintaining it,’ [said Obama].” (“Remarks by the President and Governor Romney in the Third Presidential Debate,” The White House, 10/23/2012)
In truth, Democrat leaders see devastating defense cuts as a “weapon” in their efforts to increase taxes:
“‘That may be the only way to bring some Republicans into a position of talking,’ Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the assistant Democratic leader, said late last week. ‘We’re not going to unload our weapons at this point.’” (Lisa Mascaro, “Congressional Democrats Dig In on Fiscal Cliff Scenario,” Los Angeles Times, 7/16/2012)
Indeed, the very idea of sequestration originated with Democrats:
“The book ‘The Price of Politics,’ by Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward, makes it clear the idea for the draconian spending cuts originated in the White House – and not in Congress.” (Austin Wright, “Bob Woodward Book Could Bolster Republican Attack on W.H.,” Politico, 9/7/2012)
Washington Democrats tried to downplay sequester by requesting that defense contractors “hold off on layoff warnings.” (Jeanne Sahadi, “White House to Contractors: Hold Off on Layoff Warnings,” CNN, 9/28/2012)
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