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CFTR to Obama: Stop Playing Class Warfare
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Citizens for the Republic Executive Vice President Bill Pascoe today slammed President Obama's demand for a $1.5 trillion tax increase, and urged the President to stop playing class warfare with the nation's economy.
"Barack Obama knows that a $1.5 trillion tax hike on job creators is a non-starter," said Pascoe, "and yet today he made that the centerpiece of his latest debt reduction plan – the fourth he's offered this year, for those keeping score. It's clear that the only reason he's demanding it now – under a veto threat, no less – is because he's trying to rally his liberal base in anticipation of the election next year. This kind of class warfare has no business in our politics, and the President should stop it.
"Majorities of Republicans and Independents, and even a sizable number of Democrats, have seen this President's failures for going on three years now, and have concluded it's time to make a change," Pascoe continued. "They've learned how to translate ObamaSpeak – when he says, 'We can't just cut our way out of this hole,' what he means is, 'Don't ask me to stop giving taxpayer money to Big Labor and our other Democratic Party allies.' When he says, 'It's going to take a balanced approach,' what he means is, 'I want to raise taxes while offering phantom spending cuts.' And when he says, 'It's time for everyone to pay their fair share,' what he really means is, 'It's time to raise taxes on job creators.'
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4th Circuit Wrong, Cuccinelli Right
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Citizens for the Republic Executive Vice President Bill Pascoe – responding to the ruling by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the challenges brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Liberty University to the constitutionality of ObamaCare's individual mandate – today issued the following statement:
"The 4th Circuit got it wrong today, choosing to hide behind procedural gobbledygook instead of dealing with the heart of the challenges. But, given that Democratic Presidents appointed all three judges who ruled – and Barack Obama himself, in fact, appointed two of them – a pro-Obama ruling from them isn't a surprise at all.
"For the judges to dismiss the case brought by the state of Virginia, they determined that Virginia had no ‘standing' to challenge the central provision of ObamaCare – even though a Virginia state law enacted before passage of the federal law specifically exempts the 8 million residents of the state from that provision in the federal law. If a conflict between state law and federal law doesn't provide ‘standing,' we don't know what does.
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