WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Mick Mulvaney released the following statement on the Ryan/Murray budget proposal:
“I voted against the Ryan/Murray proposal today. Were there parts of this bill I liked? Yes. I can absolutely support federal worker pension reform. However, instead of using those modest savings to pay down our debt, this bill uses those savings to spend more money. It is difficult for me to vote for something that trades spending increases now for promised reductions in the future. The past promised spending reductions just never seem to pan out. It’s not unreasonable to believe we are making the exact same mistake now.
It seems, yet again, that Washington cannot wean itself from its spending addiction Indeed, what we saw today is another example of how we got $17 trillion in debt: we can have lots of bipartisanship, as long as we spend more money.”
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“we can have lots of bipartisanship, as long as we spend more money”
That is it precisely.
The moment you say that you have to reduce the deficit you are a “nutjob” and an obstructionist.
Nutjob!
I’m always amused at the shit shoveler’s simplistic idea that if there are fewer taxes, they’ll make more money.
In all likelihood, they’ll lose their job to a bureaucrat who can’t do anything else.
I’ll agree with Mulvaney on this one. This really just kind of shuffled the money around to undo some of the sequester cuts and put that burden on the backs of others. We shouldn’t have undone the cuts at all. Furthermore, what is stopping us from fiddling with things again a year or two to screw up what little we are dropping from the deficit over the next decade?
We need both spending cuts and revenue increases to close the deficit. We really didn’t get either one, but at least this is a stable, proper way to run things. On that notion, while I do respect Mulvaney’s decision to vote no, the budget is at least a step closer to how government should be operating. No more manufactured crises.
MULVANEY the Lobbyist Puppet.
Put in a dime and grab a string.
He will dance to anyone’s tune.
As long as you pay for the music.