More Of The Same, As Usual...

Earlier this week I did a post about the proposed budgets from the two parties and their differences when it comes to a "balanced" approach of reigning in the deficit.

The Daily Caller has two stories out today shedding a little more light on the budget proposed by Democratic Senator Patty Murray.

In the first story the DC reports that a staffer for Senator Murray was pressed by Republican Senator Mike Crapo today about the budget proposal's deficit reduction in the first year. "You're talking about $1.85 trillion deficit reduction over 10 years," Crapo said. "How much of that happens in year one?" The staffer's response was less than remarkable... "There are spending savings in year one, but in total, it's about no - in the first year." Puzzled by the response, Crapo continued to press the staffer for clarification until he got an answer of zero deficit reduction in the first year. 

Full story here: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/14/dem-staffer-democrat-budget-will-produce-zero-deficit-reduction-in-2014-video/

In the second story, the DC reports that the original figures for tax hikes released Tuesday were about half a trillion dollars lower than they actually are. On Tuesday, we were told the Democratic budget proposal called for $975 billion in new tax hikes on the nation's top earners, but in reality that number is $1.5 trillion as found by GOP staffers after digging through the document. Republican Senator John Thune points out that Americans have already seen $1.7 trillion in tax hikes during this administration. It was also found that the budget would increase spending next year by $162 billion, pushing this year's spending of $3.8 trillion to the cusp of surpassing $4 trillion.

You can read the rest here: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/14/democrats-budget-plan-seeks-1-5-trillion-tax-hike-plus-10-year-spending-boost/

As usual the Democrats are using the narrative of the wealthiest Americans paying their "fair share" to try to drum up public support for the proposal. I don't know about you, but I am absolutely sick of the phrase fair share. What do liberals consider fair? They got $600 billion in tax hikes on the wealthy at the beginning of the year with a nearly 5% rate increase on income for the top tax bracket; now they want another $1.5 trillion. When is enough enough? Where is the cutoff for fair? When you get to keep 50 cents of every dollar you make, 40 cents, 30? These liberals are tax and spending addicts. They refuse to cut spending under any circumstance unless it comes from the defense budget and to try to make it appear like they are attempting to fix the deficit, they scream for tax increases to try to outpace spending increases. 

They just don't get it.