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THE DEBT COMMITTEE
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DEFICIT SUPER COMMITTEE
“Obama Warns Debt Super Committee THREE PATHS:
Not to Cheat on Deficit-Cutting Mandate”
FOX News
DEAL
• Large Amounts a new tax revenue
• Cuts to Medicare & Medicaid ($500B)
• Cuts in Mandatory: i.e. Ag subs ($250B)
NO DEAL
• Sequestration or Trigger $1.2T
• Whoever wins election implements
• 50% Defense, 50% Soc. Sec. & Medicare
• Financial Market Fall Out
PUNT
• Two Step Process
• Revamp Tax Code
“lawmakers over the past several days have increasingly talked up
• Vague agreements (based on tax
the idea of simply changing the law so that those cuts -- particularly revamp) to satisfy CBO
to the Pentagon -- would not go into effect should the committee
fail.” – Fox News
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CRONY CAPITALISM – It’s Now Out of Control
“lawmakers are exempted from the insider trading laws they impose on private
traders”
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PASSE TO PAY TAXES
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SAFE HAVEN?
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NOT SO FAST!
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THE DEBT COMMITTEE
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Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction GOAL Findat least $1.2 trillion in savingsThe group must first reach a deal that at least 7 of 12 committee members can accept - vote on it by midnight Nov. 23 (Next Wednesday). Legislative proposal considered before Christmas in the House and Senate:without any amendments or procedural hurdles such as a filibuster — just straight up-or-down votes. Will likely need not the 7 majority (of 12) but rather 8 and balanced to gain congressional momentumNeed not be revisited until spring 2013 – after the electionNO DEALOn top of more than $900 billion in cuts to federal agency spending already planned, these cuts are considered very punitive. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, dismisses “trigger” as a colloquialism and instead calls it a “nuclear suitcase,” with fallout that would cripple the Pentagon and other domestic programs key to the working class. The Third Way, a centrist Democratic group, estimated that 3,700 agents from the Justice Department would lose their jobs, border patrols would be cut by 25 percent, and more than 2,300 IRS agents would lose their jobs. PUNTIn recent days lawmakers have openly talked about approving a partial deficit-reduction plan, with a mandate for regular congressional committees to come back early next year with a large rewrite of the federal tax code that could both increase revenue and lower rates. “There could be a two-step process that would hopefully give us pro-growth tax reform,” Hensarling said Sunday.Such a plan would allow for the spending cuts to be agreed upon in the next few weeks and whatever savings come from increased revenue would be spelled out by the tax-writing House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees. Those two panels are represented on the supercommittee by their chairmen, Rep. Dave Camp (R-Michigan) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.).This would buy more time for the deeply complex issue of simplifying the tax code. However, the only way such a move could work would be if both sides agreed to an overall number for increased tax revenue — and if they instituted another trigger, in case Camp and Baucus failed at tax reform next year. Without a formal trigger, the Congressional Budget Office would not formally give the supercommittee’s proposal official clearance for meeting the necessary $1.2 trillion in savings. Additionally, Democrats would not likely agree to spending cuts now with a vague promise for tax revenue next year.McCain said Monday that the automatic cuts are "not expressed on golden tablets," suggesting they could be reversed.