Reply #10: Because they would have been able to take the Bush Tax Cuts to Reconciliation [View All]

[Zorra]

if they had passed a budget.

By not passing the budget, they lost the option to take the Bush Tax Cuts to reconciliation.

If they had passed a budget for FY 2011, they could have denied the tax cuts to millionaires but still kept the tax cuts for the middle class.

If they had passed a budget, they would have had no excuse for ending the Bush tax cuts for the millionaires and increasing federal government revenue by a projected $700 billion over a 10 yr. period.

But they didn't pass a budget for FY2011, rolled over to republicans and did not end the tax cuts for the wealthy, and lost their option to take anything at all to Reconciliation.

They had some lame excuse for not passing a budget, but it was so lame and nonsensical that I have forgotten what it was.