By
Beacon Author
on May 19, 2010 at 03:15 am
Last week, Senator Conrad was caught on "Not So Hidden Camera" saying he does not think opening the doors to his debt commission is a good idea. He specificly said he does not think it should be streamed live on the internet.
How very progressive of him!
In a somewhat related matter, Senator Conrad reported has a master plan to roll all the nasty, dirty, big government agenda items into a single tax bill so that Senators and Congressmen only have to take one bad vote rather than many bad votes on things Americans do not want.
Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) on Tuesday said he recently spoke with fellow lawmakers about rolling all tax matters facing Congress into a single bill.
The impetus behind the proposal is the lack of legislative days to handle all outstanding issues confronting lawmakers.
To prove his point, Conrad launched into the litany of matters -- from financial reform, to energy legislation, to passing rudimentary and regular spending bills -- that Congress must tackle with only 13 legislative weeks remaining on the calendar.
"Map it out," he said. "There is no way to do all this. Seems to me it would be wise to put all of the tax measures together, including small business, and middle-class tax cuts and the estate tax; have them all together because how is all this work going to get done?"
(Source: The Hill)
Perhaps the real news here is that Senator Conrad is finally admitting that Cap & Trade (aka "energy legislation") is really a "tax measure." (His words, not mine.)
Thirteen weeks left, Congress has a lot of damage to do and not much time to get it done.
Dustin Gawrylow, Executive Director
North Dakota Taxpayers' Association
Office Phone: (701) 751-2530
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