GOP Senator Offers To Raise Taxes
Nov 29, 2009 Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), patriotism, taxes, the end of war
Your eyes do not deceive you. In making the case to delay health care reform, Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) is willing to discuss a tax increase:
“I believe there will be a separate accounting,” Lugar said. “I think we will have to pay for it. I would just make this suggestion: that in the three weeks of debate we still have ahead of us, we really ought to concentrate in Congress on the war, on the overall strategy of our country and the cost of it. And we ought to be on the budget, passing appropriation bills in a proper way. In the course of that, we may wish to break out that. We may wish to discuss higher taxes to pay for it.”
Get that? The GOP is opposed to the health care reform bill because it will raise your taxes (wrong), but they’re willing to raise your taxes for permanent war. Because it’s the patriotic thing to do.
See how that works?
Of Patriots and Taxes
Oct 17, 2008 deficit spending, donald duck, invasion of iraq, iraq, patriotism, tax policy, taxes, war on terror, world war 2
Patriotism now:
