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Senior Member
- Jun 29, 2008
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Dear Speaker Boehner,
As a Republican, I have followed your handling of the debt ceiling negotiations, and the future of the federal budget, with mounting concern. You appear to be engaged in a game of partisan brinksmanship with our nations financial future. Now is not the time for scoring political points or playing to the fantasies of the anti-government libertarian zealots within our Party.
Your handling of the debt ceiling negotiations, and the prior budget proposals advanced in Representative Paul Ryans Path to Prosperity, makes it clear that the GOP is more concerned with protecting the interests of Americas most wealthy citizens, even to the detriment of the rest of us, and to the common good. For example, it is farcical to frame the debt and the deficit as merely problems of spending they are, in fact, issues created by both expenditures and revenues. Nor is taking an axe to the federal government an acceptable solution traditionally, we conservatives have been in favor of a limited government, not an eviscerated one. In the end, we simply have to pay for the services we expect government to provide. As such, a discussion of raising additional revenue taxes must be a part of any long-term solution.
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Dear Speaker Boehner: An open letter on the debt and the budget | Coffee Party