Bush tells country that Dems want to raise taxes

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President Bush warned that Democrats are ready to raise taxes in historic proportions and reiterated his opposition to the expansion of a children’s health care program during his weekly radio address Saturday

The president has vowed to veto the legislation, which he opposes because it would increase spending on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from about $5 billion to $12 billion annually for the next five years. He did credit Congress for including the existing program in a continuing resolution that would fund the government in the absence of new appropriations bills for the new fiscal year that begins Monday.

Bush took the budget argument beyond health care by hammering the Democratic-controlled Congress for spending proposals that exceed his budget requests by billions of dollars.

“Unfortunately seem to have chosen the path of higher spending,” Bush said in his radio address. “They have proposed spending increases that would add an extra $205 billion on top of my Administration’s budget request over the next five years. There’s only one way to pay for such a large spending increase, and that is to raise taxes on the American people.”

Determined to gain leverage in the children’s health care debate, Democrats responded to Bush’s address by having Graeme Frost, a 12-year-old boy from Baltimore, deliver their weekly radio response. Frost recalled how the Children’s Health Insurance Program helped his family pay for his and his sister’s surgeries and recovery after they were in a car accident that left him in a coma and unable to eat or stand up.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-tells-country-that-dems-want-to-raise-taxes-2007-09-29.html

[Donnachaidh]

1. The Democrats need to RESPOND HARD against this latest bullshit.

Reid and Pelosi need to counter this rhetoric FAST and HARD.

Bring the REAL math out into the open. Let the American public know how much is being spent on WAR each day, how much tax revenue was LOST because of Bush's tax cuts, etc. People are not stupid enough to buy into this - but they will if our reps don't open their mouths and say something.

[krispos42]

2. "Only one way to pay"????

Right... just like how BushCo bravely added war taxes for a pay-as-you-go operation in Iraq, right?

:sarcasm:

[nickgutierrez]

3. He left two words out: "They want to raise taxes ON ME."

And on that, he's damn right. Tax the rich.

[Wiley50]

4. Sure Beats Raising Mushroom Clouds

Over 5 Years? $205 Bil

Hell, He wants $200 bil for the next 6 months of his war

Fuck Bush!

[sutz12]

5. .........to pay for Bush's war. nt

[rasputin1952]

6. Why would bush do anything for Americans? He has yet to

propose anything that would aid American citizens as a whole.

By the way, Iraqi's have US taxpayer funded Universal Health Care...odd how he never mentions that little gem. But American kids, he'd just as soon watch tem diseased and dying than help them in any way, after all, they're just citizens.

[daninthemoon]

7. The most obvious response whenever they sing that old tired song

is that all they do is raise deficits with no regard to how or who is going to pay them.

[shadowknows69]

8. Gee, didn't see that one coming

Somebody write these cretins some new material please.