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Democrats Propose To Tax Iraq War

It was inevitable that a Democrat would come up with this desperate maneuver. Taxes seem to be the answer to everything for a democrat, even a transparent bluff.

    Three top House Democrats are proposing a “war surtax” to fund the Iraq war.

    “If the president really is concerned about stopping red ink, we are prepared to introduce legislation which will provide for a war surtax for that portion of military costs that are related to our military actions in Iraq,” Rep. David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, says, according to Reuters.

    The Politico reports members of the Democratic leadership say they’ll oppose any spending bills that don’t include a plan to end the 4-year-old conflict. Under the surtax proposal, taxpayers would pay extra taxes — ranging from 2% to 15% based on income — designed to raise $140 billion a year for the war effort.

“This proposal would be detrimental to our economy and our national security. It has become clear over the past year that the Majority’s response to any public policy issue is to raise taxes, but this is ridiculous. Trying to coerce the American people into cutting and running from Iraq with the threat of an astronomical tax increase is cynical and transparent.”

ow do they continue to be so clueless? How do you say, ‘DOA’ in Congressional language? Even Pelosi scoffs!

    “Just as I have opposed the war from the outset, I am … opposed to a war surtax,” Pelosi said.

She knows it would be her political death.

'War tax' plan a non-starter for Bush 
'We think that that is just a standard reaction by the Democrats'

A Democratic proposal for a "war tax" to pay for operations in Iraq is a non-starter at the White House, according to presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino.

"We made it clear the other day that the president won't support a war tax, we don't think it's necessary," she said.

Her answer was in response to a question from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, who asked for Bush's opinion of a plan by U.S. Rep. David Obey to establish "a surtax to pay for Iraqi military operations."

"And we think that that is just a standard reaction by the Democrats when they want to raise taxes," Perino said.

Obey's proposal, which was joined by U.S. Reps. Jack Murtha and Jim McGovern, would establish a two percent surtax for the lowest wage earners in the nation, up to a 15 percent surcharge for the highest brackets.

Their hopes were that it would raise up to $150 billion annually.

The Iraq expenses "will result in draining the Treasury so dry that it will result in systematic disinvestment of America's future," Obey has said. But analysts noted that the Bush request for fiscal 2008 for defense is 20.1 percent of federal outlays, still below the 21.6 percent when Bill Clinton was elected.

In a second question, Kinsolving raised the issue of a California proposal to apportion electoral votes by congressional district, which could give a Republican nominee up to 20 of the state's 55 electoral votes, which in recent years have been granted exclusively to the Democrat nominee.

"The president supports this proposal for minority rights, doesn't he?" Kinsolving asked.

"I haven't asked him about it," Perino said. "..I'll see. If I see him I'll ask him."

New reports indicate the effort may have been dropped for this election cycle. The New York Times said several key supporters have left the campaign and there's a shortage of money to keep the effort running at this point.

The plan would have needed several hundred thousand signatures on petitions before the end of November in order to be placed on the 2008 June ballot, official said.

Maine has allocated its electoral votes based on the popular vote in each congressional district since 1972, and Nebraska has done the same since 1996. But the California proposal raised eyebrows among Democrats who charged it was a power grab by Republicans.

That's because the Democrat candidate has gotten all 55 California votes for the last four presidential elections, even though 19 of the state's 53 congressional districts are held by Republicans.

It even earned a recent blog diatribe by singer-actress Barbra Streisand:

"The dirty and secretive tricks that have characterized the Republican Party in recent years are still here to stay," she wrote under the headline: "Republican Attempt to Steal California's Votes."

She warned such a move "would essentially give the next Republican presidential candidate as many as 19 additional votes – almost equal to all the electoral votes from Ohio and nearly all from Florida!"

Well when all else fails...raise taxes

That's the democrats favorite pastime.

I know the "Democrats Propose" alot but I wonder if they remember. Propose nothing in the eyes of God. SOMETHING I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW.

Acts 5:4 As long as it remained unsold, was it not still your own? And [even] after it was sold, was not [the money] at your disposal and under your control? Why then, is it that you have proposed and purposed in your heart to do this thing? [How could you have the heart to do such a deed?] You have not [simply] lied to men [playing false and showing yourself utterly deceitful] but to God.