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rsmith6621

(6,942 posts) Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:07 AM Mar 2013

If Your Congressman Voted Against This Bill.... REPLACE THEM

http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2013/03/21/roll-call-most-democrats-vote-against-progressive-budget-legislation/

If you listened to the Democratic Party and its apologists, you’d believe that the United States of America would be enjoying a progressive economic renewal, if only the Republicans could be voted out of power. If only the Democrats were in charge of the House of Representatives, they say, corporations and millionaires would be paying their fair share of taxes, wages would be fair, education and science would be adequately funded, and Social Security and Medicare would not be at risk.

Yesterday, one vote in the House of Representatives proved this argument to be false.

Yesterday, Representative Raul Grijalva, leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, introduced the Back To Work Budget as an amendment to replace the right wing Republican budget from Paul Ryan. The Progressive Back To Work Caucus would have done the following:

- Restore proper funding to education
- Provide jobs programs to economically distressed communities
- End tax breaks for families with an income over a quarter million dollars per year
- Create a 4% tax increase for millionaires and billionaires
- Make income from investments taxed at the same rate as income from work, rather than at a lower rate
- Dismantle tax incentives that encouraged corporations to move their factories overseas
- Reduce military spending to 2006 levels
- Prevent budget cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare
- Eliminate subsidies for oil and gas companies
- Established an economic price for carbon pollution

house democrats vote against progressive budgetThis was the sort of budget bill that Democratic voters have spent years waiting for, and so, naturally, most House Democrats voted against it.

Link to the bill...... http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/back-to-work-budget/

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If Your Congressman Voted Against This Bill.... REPLACE THEM (Original Post) rsmith6621 Mar 2013 OP

Just off the top of my head...Why stick your neck out on a silvershadow Mar 2013 #1

I don't even have to look to know how my good-for-nothing DINO voted. Chan790 Mar 2013 #3

Would be the biggest freshman class Fla_Democrat Mar 2013 #2

I will certainly have to look into this. Education has become a wedge issue with me. liberal_at_heart Mar 2013 #4

the carbon tax alone dooms this backwoodsbob Mar 2013 #5

OK.... rsmith6621 Mar 2013 #8

could care less if they stick there neck out backwoodsbob Mar 2013 #9

read the above response... rsmith6621 Mar 2013 #11

you cant make the carbon tax a progressive tax backwoodsbob Mar 2013 #12

Lets see... Every mile, Every Kilowatt rsmith6621 Mar 2013 #13

NO NO NO backwoodsbob Mar 2013 #14

take out the carbon tax and I'm all for everything else backwoodsbob Mar 2013 #10

And, they wonder why congress is about as popular as anchovie ice cream. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2013 #6

mine is on there dsc Mar 2013 #7

Jim Costa, "yes." Le Taz Hot Mar 2013 #15

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)

1. Just off the top of my head...Why stick your neck out on a

Reply to rsmith6621 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:16 AM

Mar 2013

vote that is known ahead of time to fail, but which has you voting for a military cut? I am 100% certain that issue alone would be fodder for a barrage of misleading campaign ads by Republican opponents for years to come. Really don't know what their individual reasons might have been, but that is one I see based on what you posted.

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

3. I don't even have to look to know how my good-for-nothing DINO voted.

Reply to silvershadow (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:22 AM

Mar 2013

The day that windbag actually represents the wishes and positions of the people of central Montgomery County, MD I will be shocked.

Fla_Democrat

(2,547 posts)

2. Would be the biggest freshman class

Reply to rsmith6621 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:18 AM

Mar 2013

the House has seen in quite a while. What was the numbers.. 84-327?

Sure my rep voted no.. even with out playing the odds, just know who he is.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)

4. I will certainly have to look into this. Education has become a wedge issue with me.

Reply to rsmith6621 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:30 AM

Mar 2013

If there was a bill that would have restored funding for education and my congressmen voted against it they won't get my vote.

backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)

5. the carbon tax alone dooms this

Reply to rsmith6621 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:30 AM

Mar 2013

adding a massive % onto electric bills for the poor is going to go over like a floating turd...and adding the 2006 military all but dooms this proposal to a one vote for it floor vote.

I'd LOVE to see the military budget cut but a carbon tax will do nothing but hurt the poorest among us.Forciing families to decide between the electric bill and food isn't a winning strategy

rsmith6621

(6,942 posts)

8. OK....

Reply to backwoodsbob (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:42 AM

Mar 2013

...Then lets take this back to the drawing board and take out the carbon tax and try it again... anyhow through other legislation you can make carbon tax a progressive tax.

Also it is getting real old here on DU to read how many will justify a Congressman voting a bill down because they didnt want to stick their neck out and they fear the fodder that may result. They work for us.

backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)

9. could care less if they stick there neck out

Reply to rsmith6621 (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:45 AM

Mar 2013

I just don't want the poorest amongst us to be burdened with even more costs.There has to be a better way

rsmith6621

(6,942 posts)

11. read the above response...

Reply to backwoodsbob (Reply #9)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:47 AM

Mar 2013

I edited it and added something.

backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)

12. you cant make the carbon tax a progressive tax

Reply to rsmith6621 (Reply #11)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:53 AM

Mar 2013

that's pie in the sky shit.
We need a comprehensive energy policy that looks at EVERYTHING involved in our energy production....NOT a tax that will hurt the poor

rsmith6621

(6,942 posts)

13. Lets see... Every mile, Every Kilowatt

Reply to backwoodsbob (Reply #12)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 02:24 AM

Mar 2013

...... you use would have a set base fee then use the national medium income to establish a base for income credits/debits so from there you you give people who make less a credit and those who make more pay more.

There.

backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)

14. NO NO NO

Reply to rsmith6621 (Reply #13)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 02:28 AM

Mar 2013

that's doomed to fail.Instead how about we use some of our military budget...say 100 billion a year...to invest in energy solutions region by region that make sense

backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts)

10. take out the carbon tax and I'm all for everything else

Reply to rsmith6621 (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:47 AM

Mar 2013

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

6. And, they wonder why congress is about as popular as anchovie ice cream.

Reply to rsmith6621 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:37 AM

Mar 2013

"I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring in higher prices than any in the world." Mark Twain

dsc

(52,152 posts)

7. mine is on there

Reply to rsmith6621 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:42 AM

Mar 2013

I live in the most liberal district outside of Manhattan or Philly so he voted with his constituents. Yeah Price.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)

15. Jim Costa, "yes."

Reply to rsmith6621 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 03:07 AM

Mar 2013

Not surprised. 'Course he's not my Congresscritter anymore -- I have a Republican and I don't even have to look at how he voted. But Costa? Complete, utter waste of time. Votes with the Republicans AT LEAST half the time.

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