During an appearance on CNN’s Starting Point on Monday morning, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) struggled to explain why the blueprint will include more than $600 billion in additional revenue that was part of the fiscal cliff compromise if Republicans oppose increasing marginal tax rates and overwhelmingly voted against the measure:
RYAN LIZZA (NEW YORKER): Did you vote against the fiscal cliff deal?CHAFFETZ: Yeah, I did.LIZZA: Is this budget going to assume the $600 billion in new revenues in that fiscal cliff deal?CHAFFETZ: Well, we haven’t gotten to the final product. Paul has not yet released it. It potentially will [...] But look, at the end of the day you’ve got to put numbers on a piece of paper and achieve balance. So I think there’s a mix there…LIZZA: Speaking to America’s frustration, Republicans voted overwhelmingly against a deal that raised $600 billion in revenue, and now it sounds like they’re going to put out a budget that pockets that $600 billion and put that up for a vote. So I think that paradox is — is a little difficult to understand.
they always have some lame excuse that really speaks to their incompetence if they were telling the truth. they always get busted when they try to cover uo with an explanation why.
Chaffetz ultimately conceded that the GOP lost on the tax issue and is now looking to benefit from the very changes they claimed would hamstring the economy and undermine job growth.The budget will also likely include Medicare savings from the Affordable Care Act and “adjustments for an expected decline in war spending, a move that could reduce assumed expenditures by up to $600 billion over the next decade.” Ryan has consistently derided war savings as “phantom savings” and promised to restore the Medicare cuts during his vice presidential bid.
they can say what they want but thr translation will always be they tried to plagurize the Pres. and claim it as theirs, could work but everytime they are asked to explain they can't they only stole the lead in they don't know what the last page to the plan is, but they maintain it's the answer if only they could get their paws on the rest of it.
all through the campaign their best response when quizzed about "THEIR" PLAN" we'll tell you after the election, you can get off the floor now, not nice to laugh at the challenged,+o)
