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Ron Paul's Shameful Record on Out of Control Spending
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2011 Nov 10, 6:48am 1,781 views 5 comments
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uomo_senza_nome
2011 Nov 10, 8:00am
I don't get it.
Everybody wants to spend and therefore the government borrows money out of control. Government spending always has to be compensated for with more taxation (eventually, tax cuts can continue the show only for some time).
If Dr. Paul has to represent his constituency and does not vote for the earmarks that might be going to his district, then he will basically be screwing the people he represents on two counts:
1. They don't get any money out of earmarks, whereas everyone else does and they spend it.
2. They'll get taxed (eventually) for the money they did not even spend.
LOL. I don't get why this is a shameful record. If any, it indicates that he is acting in the best interests of the people he represents. He does state that the Federal Govt shouldn't be doing it, which means if he were in power - this out of control spending would have never come to pass anyway.
Every tax cut for one person is an increase in taxes for somebody else. Tax cuts don't count unless they're matched by spending cuts.
uomo_senza_nome
2011 Nov 13, 12:39am
Every tax cut for one person is an increase in taxes for somebody else. Tax cuts don't count unless they're matched by spending cuts.
Which is why I think Dr. Paul proposes both spending and tax cuts. In the original post, it is shown that everybody wants to spend government money and the author is cribbing Dr. Paul voting to get a fair share for his district.
It's just called a job well done.
Yes, he is against the spending bill and yet he does a good work of best representing his district.
Ron Paul argues for earmarks
'It's like a tax credit,' the Texas libertarian tells Fox News. 'If I can give my district any money back, I encourage that.'
WASHINGTON — Ron Paul, the Texas congressman who is the darling of the libertarian right, has more earmarks in the pork-laden $410-billion spending bill than any other Republican.
Paul, a fiscal watchdog who said he voted against the bill because he believes federal spending is out of control, acknowledged that $73 million in the bill passed by his colleagues "might be" going to his district on Texas' Gulf Coast for things like the intra-coastal waterway, the Texas City channel and Wallisville Lake. But he was fine with that.
"The principle of the earmark is our responsibility. We're supposed to -- it's like a -- a tax credit. And I vote for all tax credits, no matter how silly they might seem. If I can give you any of your money back, I vote for it. So if I can give my district any money back, I encourage that. But because the budget is out of control, I haven't voted for an appropriation in years -- if ever. . . .
"I don't think the federal government should be doing it. But if they're going to allot the money, I have a responsibility to represent my people. If they say, Hey, look, put in a highway for the district, I put it in.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/15/nation/na-ticket15
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