The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget [http://crfb.org/category/blog-issue-areas/tax-extenders] said about the "Tax Extender Bill" that Congressman Cook just voted for:
"Although lawmakers have been adding to the debt repeatedly for the past few years,
the $680 billion tax deal is easily the largest step backwards and is
comparable in magnitude to the deficit reduction lawmakers enacted
between 2011 and 2013. The deal easily swamps the net savings from the 2013 Ryan-Murray agreement, almost equals the revenue raised in the fiscal cliff agreement, amounts to three-quarters of the sequester savings, and is more than two-thirds of the savings from the Budget Control Act spending caps. ...
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Lawmakers announced a negotiated package of business and individual tax breaks will cost about $680 billion over
ten years. After interest, the cost will be closer to $830 billion
over ten years.
The deal largely focuses on reviving tax breaks
that expired at the end of 2014, making some permanent and extending
others for either two or five years. However, it also permanently
extends three refundable tax credit expansions that would have expired
in 2017, originally enacted in the 2009 stimulus bill. The bill also
pauses or delays three taxes from the Affordable Care Act, opening the door to further delays or possible repeal of the taxes, undermining
the health care law's deficit-reduction and cost-control efforts. ...
With debt already around its highest level
as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) other than around World War
II and estimated to grow with no end in sight, the least one could have
hoped for from lawmakers would be to stop digging the hole deeper. But
2015 proved even that low bar to be too lofty a goal. ..."
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Paul Cook & Steve Knight's vote for the Tax Extender Bill is unconscionable . Pelosi called it “practically an immorality in terms of ... how it damages the future,” later saying, “These massive giveaways to the special interests and big corporations are deeply destructive to our future." Hoyer called it “extraordinarily
irresponsible,” explaining that “it makes almost sure that we will have
to continue some type of disinvestment in our country because of lack
of resources."
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The tax extender bill is explicitly exempted from the PAYGO rule that requires that every new bit of spending (and tax cuts are certainly a form of spending) be offset.
Republicans want to crush the priorities important to most people in the 25th and 8th Congressional Districts. Republicans want to use the deficit (that they just added to) as a way to demand cuts to programs
that they don’t like—those that help the vets and retirees on limited incomes, children, the working poor & middle-class and their families.
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Sunday, December 27, 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Paul Cook's & Steve Knight's H.R.3668 - California Minerals, Off-Road Recreation, and Conservation Act--H.R. 3668 Contains (1) Unfunded Mandates, (2) Giveaways to Corporate Donors, (3) Guts California Sovereignty, (4) Gives Away Use of Public lands without Any Compensation (for starters)--Do Cook & Knight read these Crap Bills?
What does H.R. 3668 really do?
To the superficial envios & off-roaders, it sounds like we get more wilderness areas & off road areas
So what is it really?
1. THE ONLY new areas that have any proviso in the law for acquisition expenses, is Mojave Trails Special Management Area (Sections 603 & 604 of the Bill) and the Sand to Snow National Monument (Section 703 & 704 of the bill)--the problem?? NO funding; this is another Republican unfunded mandate and taking of private lands
2. The "Release of California School Land" strips the California Land Commission of jurisdiction - Problem? Its another Republican use of federal power to strip the State of its sovereignty AND AGAIN, its another unfunded Republican mandate and taking of private property without compensation
3. The "Valid Existing Rights Conversion (Section 807)is a gifting of easements to the power lobby(PG&E, Edison & SoCalifornia Gas)--again the problem (we get no money from them for the USE of our public lands again despite the billions they make--another act of corporate welfare by the Republican police state)
4. Release of Reversionary interest to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (Section 801)--lands which they used, but did not own, Cook's & Knight's bill is giving away in perpetuity, again collecting NOTHING for the use of public lands and water, with NO conservation mandates
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Wow--bad law dudes
Note: Mr. Cook (for himself and Mr. Knight) introduced the bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources-- see full text at https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3668/text?q={%22search%22%3A[%22\%22hr3668\%22%22]}&resultIndex=1#toc-HA80A6C832758444A9F15C22FA2470065.
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