{"id":7740,"date":"2010-11-12T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T17:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2010-11-12T12:20:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T17:20:40","slug":"something-else-the-white-house-deficit-commission-abets-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7740\/something-else-the-white-house-deficit-commission-abets-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Else the White House Deficit Commission Abets: ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Liberty Update<\/em>, CFIF’s weekly e-newsletter,\u00a0this week includes the commentary “A Balanced Budget Amendment Doesn’t Have to Mean Higher Taxes – CFIF’s ‘One More Vote’ Proposal Doesn’t.”<\/a> In that column, we note that the White House deficit commission’s fundamental flaw is that it takes for granted 2010 federal spending levels as its baseline:<\/p>\n

The overriding problem with the commission\u2019s plan is that it accepts the 2010 fiscal year as its spending base, thereby locking in the alarming spending increases of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid regime.\u00a0 That includes the failed \u201cstimulus\u201d that attempted to spend our way to prosperity, the bailouts, the pet projects and everything else they\u2019ve heaped into our budget.\u00a0 Since 2008, federal spending has surged from approximately $25,000 per household to $30,000 per household, and jumped during that two-year span from its historical average of 20% of gross domestic product (GDP) to approximately 25% of GDP.\u00a0 Richard Rahn points out that, \u201cFederal government spending and revenues in 1968 as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) were almost identical to the levels in 2008.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, it’s actually even worse than that.\u00a0 The commission also leaves in place ObamaCare, which is already driving up healthcare costs and adding to the deficit (despite promises that it would have the opposite effect).\u00a0 As James Capretta from National Review Online observes<\/a>, we shouldn’t be surprised given the commission’s composition:<\/p>\n

None of this is all that surprising, given how the commission was formulated.\u00a0 It\u2019s not really a bipartisan commission at all; it\u2019s an Obama commission.\u00a0 It was created by the president and stacked with Democratic appointees.\u00a0 Two-thirds of the 18 members were picked by the president or Democratic congressional leaders. Only six were appointed by Rep. John Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell.\u00a0 The president says the public doesn\u2019t want to \u201cre-litigate\u201d the health care war.\u00a0 He\u2019s wrong.\u00a0 As last Tuesday\u2019s exit polls make clear, a strong plurality wants exactly that.\u00a0 The American people know that the ill-advised law was railroaded through Congress and is a colossal mistake.\u00a0\u00a0 The fundamental problem here is that it is not possible build a bipartisan budget framework on a foundation that includes a partisan health-care plan with sweeping implications for future spending levels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Americans cannot be asked to accept the commission’s findings when they take as a given current spending levels and an ObamaCare atrocity that must be replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Liberty Update, CFIF’s weekly e-newsletter,\u00a0this week includes the commentary “A Balanced Budget Amendment Doesn’t Have to Mean Higher Taxes – CFIF’s ‘One More Vote’ Proposal Doesn’t.” In that column, we note that the White House deficit commission’s fundamental flaw is that it takes for granted 2010 federal spending levels as its baseline: The overriding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2070,59,2069,19,102,12,465,2072,24,35,2071,179,71,28],"class_list":["post-7740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bowles","tag-deficit","tag-deficit-commission","tag-economy","tag-free-market","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-reform","tag-james-capretta","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-simpson","tag-stimulus","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7745,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions\/7745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}