Democrats Intent On Raising Taxes

Democrats in the Senate have passed a $600 billion health, education bill. That exceeds the White House's budget by more than $10 billion. It's bills like these that are going to raise taxes on the American people, but that's what the Democrats are all about, socialism (stealing from the successful and redistributing the money).

"The spending hike they are asking for in this one bill, if allowed to continue at the same rate, will cost the American taxpayer $120 billion over the next ten years," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

With Democrats passing these bills, President Bush will have no choice but to veto. I trust that the president will not let this overspending go without a fight. What Democrats are doing could delay the passage of many of the bills to next year, yet the fiscal year has already started. They're going to try to pin it on President Bush, like they did with SCHIP and the Frost kid, but they're not going to fool anyone. Democrats are all about taxing and that's never going to stop.

Another problem in the Senate is the problem with earmarking. Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty for this. 1,000 earmarks totaling $562 million are included in this bill. Republican Senator Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma, moved to strip all earmarks from the bill but his measure fell short 68-26. At least we know that have have a true fiscal conservative in Senator Coburn.

I hope that Democrats fail in stealing from the American people and that Republicans sustain the vetoes that we know will come. Thank you for reading and God Bless.

SCHIP

President Bush vetoed a 35 billion dollar expansion of SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) today. What you're probably hearing though is that he has decided not to care about child healthcare, which is entirely untrue. President Bush vetoed a bill that would expand the program to included families that make more than $80,000 a year and to include more than 700,000 adults. President Bush asked for a 5 billion dollar expansion to this program (which is enought to run this program over the next five years) and what the Democrats in the Senate have done is completely unnecessary.

This program was created to insure those children whose families do not qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford private insurance. The bill that the Senate passed would encourage families that already have private insurance to drop their insurance and get free insurance through this program. It would be step back from America's values and a step toward Socialism.

Democrats were going to pay for this program by raising the tax on cigarettes from .39 to 1.00 a box (that's over a 150% increase). That tax hike would hit the lower class the hardest because studies show that lower income parents are more like to smoke than higher income parents. But wait...I thought that Democrats fight for the poor? Once again, the hypocrisy of the Democrats rearing it's ugly head. And it would not just be a tax hike on cigarettes; what happens when the Democrats want to include more in this program? Our taxes are going to sky-rocket!!! I don't want to give half or more of everything I earn to the government, do you? I would hope not because we are suppose to live in a Capitalist society not a Socialist (Communist) society.

So here's the message to Congress: Lower taxes (keep your dirty hands out of my pockets), shrink the government and quit trying to impose liberal, secular and lunatic views and opinions on me and my family!!! Thank-you for reading and God bless.