On the recordJuly 20, 2011
I wish it were too. I am surprised about this debate. The press is not pushing Democrats on what a joke their proposals about jets and yachts are, but the American people--the people I represent in Utah--understand these are red herrings. These proposals deal with the President's legacy of debt for less than 2 days--less than 2 days--over the next 10 years. Add in the much-publicized tax hit on the hated oil companies and you get another 5 days. So after all the demagoguery on jets and yachts and oil companies, you get about 1 week of deficit reduction. And even throwing in a one- time confiscation of all the income for taxpayers earning above $1 million, you can only add 244 days. Add it all up and there is still less than 1 year. All those tax increases don't even get to one-tenth of the debt President Obama will add over the next 10 years. It is class warfare. We all know that. All the talk from the White House and from our friends on the other side is on behalf of proposals that would address, at best, less than 10 percent of the debt forced on American families by the President's budget. I ask my friend from Alabama if he might conclude with the classic definition of a red herring.
