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Thomas Miller McClintock is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 5th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he has been an advocate for limited government and fiscal conservatism throughout his political career. McClintock has focused on issues such as tax reform, environmental policy, and government spending. He previously served in the California State Assembly and as a member of the California State Senate, where he gained recognition for his commitment to conservative principles.
But the deficits are future taxes. Whether you are taxing today, or you are taxing tomorrow, which is what we call a deficit, you are still taxing and those are the two ways that you pay for spending. So it seems to me, that with apologies…
But going from theory to actual practice, I would look back over the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century and I see Harding reducing spending as percentage of GDP in the early 20s, Truman reducing it in the mid-1940s, Reagan…
Sovereign debt default then would not be an act of the Congress, it would be a malfeasance of the executive and not prioritizing payments to ensure a timely payment of the sovereign debt obligations.
I specifically asked the head of their sovereign debt division if the budget adopted by the House last year, the so-called Ryan budget, would have preserved the AAA credit rating of the United States government. His answer was it would…
I think we have run a follow of McClintock's first law of political physics which is the more we invest in our mistakes the less willing we are to admit them.
Can you offer us any examples of a nation that has ever spent and borrowed and taxed its way to prosperity?
First, I would like to remind the ranking member that the top 1 percent of income earners earn 17 percent of the income and pay 37 percent of the income taxes.
Eliminating Federal Red Tape and Excessive Litigation is indeed the only path to Create Healthy Forests, Jobs and Abundant Water and Power Supplies.
The result is now clear and undeniable: economically devastated communities, closed timber mills, unemployed families, overgrown forests, overdrawn watersheds, jeopardized transmission lines, rampant disease and pestilence and increasingly…
This is not environmentalism. True environmentalists recognize the damage that is done by over-growth and over-population.
I again want to thank Congressman Scott Tipton for his leadership on these issues and for pressing to have this field hearing conducted today here in Montrose.
I want to thank Congressman Scott Tipton for his leadership on these issues and for pressing to have this field hearing conducted here in Montrose.
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