Hoyer: No budget resolution this year, tax hikes on the way
House Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced this morning that the ruling majority will not pass a budget resolution this year. And, hell, why not? The White House budget director thinks his job’s done. Why bother?
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday his party will not approve a traditional budget that sets spending guidelines for the new fiscal year.
Instead, Hoyer, D-Md., used a speech before the think tank Third Way to announce plans for the House to unveil what he called a “budget enforcement resolution” in its place.
Hoyer says this blueprint will curb discretionary spending (money the government spends on programs except Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) beyond cuts called for in President Obama’s budget and look for ways to trim wasteful spending.
Hoyer also argued the reason to punt on a regular budget was because Mr. Obama’s fiscal commission that aims to slash the debt hasn’t completed it’s work yet.
“It isn’t possible to debate an pass a realistic, long-term budget until we’ve considered the bipartisan commission’s deficit-reduction plan,” Hoyer said. “I believe that Congress must take up and vote on that plan.”
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Guess what job Hoyer is eager to undertake without having to outsource it to a blue-ribbon panel? Tax hikes! Here they come.
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GOP Leader Boehner responds:
“In his speech today, Majority Leader Hoyer admits that House Democrats will not do a budget this year, for the first time in modern history. He also admits that he supports raising taxes on the middle class to pay for more government spending.
“That is the ideology of Washington Democrats: just keep spending taxpayers’ money – with no plan, no discipline, and no accountability. Every American knows that our country is going through tough times. Unemployment is near ten percent nationwide. In my home state of Ohio, it’s even higher. Every American family also knows what Washington Democrats can’t seem to grasp: in tough times it’s more important – not less – to have a budget, to set priorities, and to live within your means.
“As the Obama Administration’s Office of Management and Budget Director flees the rising tide of red ink, it’s time to be honest with the American people. To tell them how much their federal government is spending, how much it owes, and how big a bite it will take out of their paychecks this year and in years to come. Struggling small business owners can’t save, invest, and hire if Washington Democrats won’t even tell them how much they’ll owe in taxes next year.
“Economists have told us a fiscally-responsible budget will help create jobs, and the American people know they’re right. House Republicans have offered better solutions to cut spending now, and impose real spending caps in the future. We know that higher taxes, higher deficits, and more debt are not the answer. That’s why the Majority Leader is dead wrong about the future of this country, and what we need to do – right now – to make sure the American dream is alive and well for our kids and grandkids.”
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Don’t look to hard for that wasteful spending there Ace, you might tear a retina or something!
Could it be they’re waiting for the lame duck Congress to pass some bloated budget?
Without those guidelines, how will we know if we’ve overspent? This is like a credit card with no cap!
Maybe they’ll buy BP with all the extra money they’ll have.
I didn’t think a dictator needed a vote on the budget, anyway. They are driving us off the cliff. OK, lemmings, here ya go!
We don’t no stinkin budget!
Next they’ll tell us that they’re going to put this fall’s election on hold until they resolve problems with the voter intimidation like in Philadelphia… oh wait..never mind…
Budget? We ain’t got no budget. We don’t need no budget. I don’t have to show you any stinking budget.
Here’s a thought STOP SPENDING ON ENTITLEMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Danceswithdachshunds you beat me to it…sort of.
These people must stay up nights thinking of new ways to tax us into peasantry and serfdom. While I can see November from here I can see Concord/Lexington, or perhaps the Bastille, too. For some reason OFF WITH THEIR HEADS seems to be coursing through my mind. If the French aren’t using them perhaps they could loan us some guillotines.
Not that I wish to seem extreme.
They do in 2009, 7000 pieces of legislation went through congress!
How does one enforce non-existent numbers?
This administration needs Rod Serling as their spokesman.
Congressional liberals generated over 2000 pages for federal health care legislation but say they are unable to generate even one page to set the budget.
If there are any voters left who don’t yet know how to spell IRRESPONSIBILITY I think now would be a good time for republicans in Congress to start shouting from roof tops.
I’m a lost cause without an edit button…
Daily I am amazed at this administration and Congress…scared to think of what is next in setting precedent or history under the hope and change.
It is very clear that nobody in Congress or the White House understand how the economy works and how the government is currently destroying the economy by its anti-growth, anti-business, anti-energy, anti-American policies.
It is one thing to have Marxists messing about in schools. It is another thing to have moronic Marxists attempting to run the government. This may be the least competent group ever to sit in the seat of power in this nation.
This is not likely to end well…
Too bad they can’t hire the dance band on the Titanic.
Again, not slash the debt (Bush era), slash the debt (Obama era). So likely we will never get spending back to levels before TARP and Obama isn’t even going to try while he claims ‘deficit reduction’.
Of course not they will wait until after the November elections (just barely a month into the new fiscal year) to pass the budget with increased spending and increased taxes taht they want.
The budget for this year is actually very simple: We’re broke, so we can’t spend anything.
Criminy sakes alive!
When can we finally bury this dead, obsolete 1930s tax and spend mentality? People this fundamentally ignorant and out of touch with practical economics should not be in government positions of policy or power. Unbelieveable.
All economies struggle to survive under any conditions – and often do – but these fools are testing the limits of survival.
So once again, “stimulus” means flooding the non-productive economic sectors with new spending initiatives while taking it back by taxing the productive job-creating sectors. Brilliant!
Who voted for these guys? Oh yeah.
Did they ever completely last last years?
People our financial house is completely out of order. For about a decade now, the government never gets their budget out and passed on time. This is an alarmingly serious issue.
I guess they don’t want the public to know the full extent of the Democrat’s damage done.
Is Congress “obsolete” yet? They have passed legislation that has put blank checks into the hands of Geitner to be paid out as the POTUSA see fit!
Absolutely NO OVERSIGHT or second thoughts by Congress to even “re-think” (if each one only had a brain) their over-reaching and obscene tax measures!
One can only rob a piggy bank IF it has some money in it! The Govt has become the “greatest counterfeiter” since history began! jb
Is that right? how has this country managed for over 223 years without a “bi-partisan deficit-reduction plan” …these democraps are right on top of it all, are they not. Lyin’ bastards everyone.
Where is the outrage. Oh yeah, the people voted them in and they support this nonsense. Why be outraged when your guys are doing what you want?
Or do they even know what they want? I doubt it. They just want a “D” because they are “for the little guy” while “R’s are for the big corporations and oil companies.
Does this mean the president will no longer say he didn’t raise taxes? I think not! It was Bush’s fault, obviously.
WOT but huge. It was just announced that a judge has overturned the drilling moratorium in the Gulf. The administration will probably appeal so don’t count your chickens yet.
In other words, “We’re too cowardly before the mid-terms to give the middle finger once more to America, so instead we’re going to say ‘Up yours!’ to the Constitution and simply refuse to do our jobs — until a bunch of people to whom we’ve fobbed off our responsibilities offer themselves up as the bearers of bad news.”
These people have no respect whatsoever for the people. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore. I’ve said it before, and will say it again: if there was a way I could trade two years off the end of my life to bring November here tomorrow, I’d gladly enter into the bargain.
sigh.
Budgets are so passe especially when the gov has spend all the money we haven’t even made yet. Won’t they be in a pickle when the public decides not to bother to make what has already been stolen from our future generations. The more they tax the less they get.
I wish the Democrat leadership would all board a bus together, then drive off a 500′ cliff. Not only would this country be a better place, the world would greatly benefit from their departure…(and we could erect a monument to their dishonor.)
These people are not great Americans! They are the destroyers of our freedom and liberty.
Sorry…support….
“Yeah. F F. Chance”
J. S. Ragman
“Yeah, F.F. Chance.”
J. S. Ragman
Hoyer is an abject moron. He is in his element on Capitol Hill.
These people haven’t got a clue and, even worse, they think they know everything.
They are obviously on the road toward destruction and they keep accelerating.
“Democrates” taxing the American public into serfdom since 1933.
Well said. But it also was the Republican’s ideology as well during the Bush Presidency. All these corrupt whores in Congress need to go. I don’t trust any of them anymore. Our so called “leaders” are killing our Country.
The Hoyer Plan in action. Tax us into prosperity and borrow our way out of debt.
Obviously, with great minds like Obama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi and Hoyer at the helm we are about as screwed as we can be.
Zimbabwe is going to look like paradise in a few years…
I believe this sums it up for the typical dem running rampant withe the federal check book. Like the old joke, “How can I be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook.”
As important as a good budget is, it is even more important to have a stable environment where businesses and jobs can thrive. When businesses cannot predict what their tax rates are going to be, what their health care costs are going to be, what their energy costs are going to be, or even what the laws and regulations that govern their industries are going to be next year, they are forced to plan for the worst case scenario. That means they cannot plan for growth and they cannot hire.
As Rush stated on his program today, the greatest danger to America is what Obama is doing to destroy the rule of law in this country. By continually rewriting business regulations to suit his idea of fairness, he is replacing the rule of law with rule by whim.
As long as Obama is allowed to dictate to businesses what they can and cannot do, what cars they can build, what salaries they can pay, what energy they can use, that they can drill for oil today but not tomorrow, in short, as long as he continues to “fundamentally transform america”, there will be no stability of law in this country and no recovery from this recession.
*I’ve got news for Steny the Hoyer:
**I can see November from my house!
**I can smell November from my house!
**I can taste November from my house!
**Smoked Democrats, it’s what’s for dinner!
Since they won’t stop the entitlement spending insanity, we will stop them, and that includes the rat bastard RINO’s as well.
He had too much integrity for that.
I remember when the start of the federal fiscal year shifted from July to October, allegedly because Congress needed more time to come up with a budget. That was incompetence, THIS is malice.
Margaret Thatcher, “The only problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
Steny, now do you realize that she wasn’t joking?
Another example of Obama lying to the American gullible and stupid! I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you to find this pathologic liar has lied to the people again.