President Obama is looking to the past to help reduce growing federal budget deficits threatening the country's future.
In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama called on Congress to pass a pay-as-you-go legislation, known as PAYGO, that would require new federal spending to be offset by budgetary cuts or tax hikes.
"We need to adhere to the basic principle that new tax or entitlement policies should be paid for," he said, asserting that PAYGO "helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s. Now we must restore that sense of fiscal discipline."
Fiscally conservative Democratic lawmakers, known as Blue Dogs, told Obama on Friday that they're working on a PAYGO plan and that they prefer to offset new spending with spending cuts elsewhere. Rep. Baron Hill of Indiana will introduce legislation next week, a Democratic aide told FOXNews.com
The federal deficit is projected to hit a record high of more than $1.8 trillion this year, due in large part to the government providing aid to Wall Street firms and other struggling companies, as well as Obama's $787 stimulus package. Pay-as-you-go legislation wouldn't affect that spending. - FOX News Story
It is pretty clear that all though this is good legislation, it might not be good for us. It has been made crystal clear by Obama and the Democrats that they have no intention on slowing the spending spree, which means that if this legislation passes they will come back to us and say that they have no option but to raise taxes. It will be the law, not that they want to raise our taxes, but that they have no choice. can you say SMOKE SCREEN!!!!!
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