Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) did a fantastic job yesterday making Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner squirm in front of the House Small Business Committee. Geithner claimed there was “no alternative” but to raise taxes on America’s small businesses, unless we wanted to (gasp!) shrink government programs like education. So, rather than make even the tiniest reduction in the size of our bloated federal government, the Obama administration instead would rather raise taxes on job-creating small businesses in the midst of a horrific recession.

And what good would that do? Not much, according to the CBO, which just reported that our deficits would be unsustainable even with Clinton-era tax revenue.

Ellmers wasn’t buying Geithner’s mumbo-jumbo, and she even got in a little zinger at the end!

Via CNS News.




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voted against carter
voted against carter

It's a lurker TROLL for the most part.

All it needs is a cookie and some more obama kool-aid.

we have gallons as we do NOT drink it here.

voted against carter
voted against carter

silly libratard, didn't you get the memo on religion? Apparently not.

check with media matters. I'm sure they can hook you up.

voted against carter
voted against carter

silly libratard, didn't you get the memo on religion? Apparently not.

check with media matters. I'm sure they can hook you up.

voted against carter
voted against carter

hit the like button by mistake.

Are you lost little baby troll? Did your mommy leave ALL alone?

Try Huff po, it's down at the left.

more obama kool-aid for you????

voted against carter
voted against carter

hit the like button by mistake.

Are you lost little baby troll? Did your mommy leave ALL alone?

Try Huff po, it's down at the left.

more obama kool-aid for you????

voted against carter
voted against carter

ahahahahahahahahhahaha so silly.

Are you done with that cookie ALLREADY???

well here have another one. THIS time chew it slowly.

More obama kool-aid??? We have gallons as we don't drink it.

voted against carter
voted against carter

WOW!??? Guess you told us. Boy I feel SSSOOOOO humbled. And big words too!

sorry,.. condescension does work JUST fine. Silly libratard.

Here have a cookie with your obama kool-aid. But chew BEFORE you swallow.

Jim James
Jim James

Keep it up, Dems. Bleed the horse dry, then wonder why the cart won't move.....

voted against carter
voted against carter

Geithner,.. WHO does NOT even pay his OWN taxes on time,...

WANTS MORE of OUR MONEY to GIVE to his UNIONS MASTERS,.. etc,...

YES YOU ARE doing it because you want to timmy.

voted against carter
voted against carter

Geithner,.. WHO does NOT even pay his OWN taxes on time,...

WANTS MORE of OUR MONEY to GIVE to his UNIONS MASTERS,.. etc,...

YES YOU ARE doing it because you want to timmy.

voted against carter
voted against carter

LOL!!! GREAT REPLY to this MAROON!!

It's a MINISTRY OF TRUTH OBAMA TROLL on the loose.

It has taken a lot of willpower NOT to troll post on it's comments as I do NOT want to get rscoop mad at me again.

so to jaREDp:

"hello TROLL".

voted against carter
voted against carter

you are a LIBRATARD. and a DemocRAT. same thing.

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

voted against carter
voted against carter

It's a MINISTRY OF TRUTH OBAMA TROLL don't feed it just flag it and move on.

voted against carter
voted against carter

MAKING UP stuff and saying it is fact is STILL called LYING.

The ONLY sates that are doing just ok ARE the REPUBLICAN controlled states EXCLUDING the ones that just turned red on the LAST election that you were handed your head in.

You have a great STRAWMAN argument going there.

back to huff po with you.

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

voted against carter
voted against carter

I'm sorry but after READING ALL this IDIOT LIBRATARD TROLLs Posts,

I Have to say it,.. PLEASE go back to HUFF PO to SPEW your LIBRATARD fantasies over there.

It has only 81 posts SO it IS safe to say it IT an MINISTRY OF TRUTH OBAMA TROLL.

HEY TROLL,.... DESIST AND DECEASE.

You are an idiot. STOP proving it with every statement you make.

PS. rscoop, I wont' toll flag this IDIOT any more as IT is APPARENT what it is.

Sorry cant help it.

It's Talking points memo pretty much covers it's STUPIDITY.

Persephone
Persephone

Engage away, mighty Rshill.

But hold no quarter on his In Quartata.

Persephone
Persephone

Bile?

Nooo...I wouldn't dream of transgressing into your specialty, Tyler.

Your attempts at coherency are more revealing about...you...than you are obviously able to discern.

Since you are obviously exempt from enforcement of the 'Trolling for a fight' transgression that is otherwise enforced here...agitate away!

But it would be nice if you refrained from attacking innocent infrequent posters who are unaware of your combative style.

Those are cheap shots.

Unless your goal is to drive people away.

I do thank you, however, for honoring my request to leave me alone.

You are a somewhat honorable young man overall, I think...albeit a cynnical and misguided one, in search of facts to fit your own inexperienced conclusions.

Oh, btw...those inbred RINOs on the Tulsa City Council were simply using the ole 'hire-an-outside-consultant-firm-to-cover-your-inneptitude' ploy.

That is the modus operandi of all bad executives.

So I wouldn't be holding that up as an example of why 'spending more taxpayer money' is a good idea, if I were you.

Chris
Chris

We are already defaulting on our debts. There already is an international crisis - I do not know where you have been or what you have been reading. We are already meeting or exceeding the bottom of the barrel indicators of the Great Depression.

WAKE UP.

You cannot keep listening to the inside the Beltway and Ivy Wall prevaricators any longer. Start looking 8-12 pages deep in the NY Times and WSJ. Read the Daily Caller and other foreign papers.

The very rich, the DC politicians(I know that's redundant for the most part), the 45%-or-so who live outside of urban centers - will be relatively unaffected when the bottom drops out(slowly or not so slowly) but the remaining 50+% will be hammered and there will be as we have already seen in England, France, Greece and the middle east, violence in the streets.

Chris
Chris

My dog would be a fine alternative.

Get out of our way.

Persephone
Persephone

Psst...Rshill, I think what we have here is Tyler again, under yet another new netname.

And since he seems to be one of RS's pets [because he never gets called out on anything he says]...your valiant efforts of coherent discourse, are alas...futile in the face of such ardent youthful obstinance.

Chris
Chris

As Mark Simone states - we do NOT have a revenue problem - we have an insane out of control SPENDING problem!

Has Timmy-tax-cheat told Obama to STOP SPENDING?!?!?!?!

Meanwhile... Boehner(the 20+ year over spending, liberal republican enabler who helped get us INTO this MESS) and Obama (the Income redistribution-in-Chief) are negotiating our budget and the debt limit ceiling.

WHAT. COULD. GO. WRONG. THERE?

Sam R
Sam R

"We need jobs to grow our economy." DUH!! So how about you and the rest of your elite "economists" all get outta the way and let the American people grow the job market?

Sam R
Sam R

"We need jobs to grow our economy." DUH!! So how about you and the rest of your elite "economists" all get outta the way and let the American people grow the job market?

Kasandra
Kasandra

Sorry, Geithner, but raising taxes is NOT an ACCEPTABLE option. I've noticed this same pattern along state lines too where a Dem is in office. They always say the only way to fix their out of balance budgets is to increase taxes. Nothing about all the money wasted on their overspending that caused the mess in the first place.

Kasandra
Kasandra

Sorry, Geithner, but raising taxes is NOT an ACCEPTABLE option. I've noticed this same pattern along state lines too where a Dem is in office. They always say the only way to fix their out of balance budgets is to increase taxes. Nothing about all the money wasted on their overspending that caused the mess in the first place.

David Robertson
David Robertson

The only viable ALTERNATIVE that makes any sense is to cut gov and grow the tax base. Raising taxes, while producing a short term increase in receipts to the government, will only drive down the growth.

One can only presume that these idiots who keep defending gov spending and deficits while calling for tax increases are purposely killing this country. Tim is smart enough to know that his statement is untrue and unproductive to the solution. I'm convinced there is a larger agenda at hand. Nobody is that dumb.

David Robertson
David Robertson

Kill the Department of Education. Money does not equal better ed. Some of the best schools in the country work on lower $$ per head.

timltbird
timltbird

How do these people get through life? Do they all believe they're still in college ...listening to their "Marxist" and "Utopian" professors..attempting to run their doctoral thesis? Hey Timmy...isn't there some well you need to fall down in?

The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz

I was disgusted when the tax cheat said that big businesses have "tax benefits"- What the crap is a tax benefit?

Persephone
Persephone

Yes!

All that, and...

Eliminate the Commerce Dept.

Outlaw all government unions...govt employees are not entitled to collective bargaining against We the People.

Cut all non-military govt pensions to the same 1:1 ratio that most private sector jobs have.

Term Limits on all bureaucracy desk jobs....10 yrs and you're out in the private sector.

And cut the Minimum Wage in half...if not eliminate it altogether.

Let the free market determine wages.

The job market will explode.

Scale back our number of foreign bases!

Why should we make the world safer for companies to create Jobs in other countries?

Let those countries bear the cost of providing a Safe environment for their own commerce!

*steps off of soapbox*

The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz

Frick!!!

I just had this really long post venting about the clip and how Bush tax cuts are being set up to take the blame again, but I deleted it because I felt that it was getting the better of me and I was getting angry (anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering). Had I known you had a soapbox available, I would have posted.

Shane
Shane

Why do all the women in the Republican party have balls???? The men are a bunch of geldings......RUN SARAH RUN She's got the biggest balls of all!!!!!!

Dakota
Dakota

We have NEVER seen 8 or 9% growth. We haven't even seen growth of 5%.

Dakota
Dakota

We have NEVER seen 8 or 9% growth. We haven't even seen growth of 5%.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

Harvard, Yale , Columbia, etc , etc.......

therightscoop
therightscoop

I think this guy will unexpectedly be out of a job in 2012.

Yes, and I see no alternative.

GJPinks
GJPinks

Come on TRS, he has to expect to be out of a job. Here is the solution: raise the tax rates on the top 2%, but let them figure their taxes with Turbo Tax so they don't have to pay any taxes. Everybody wins. Wow, I could be a Democrat Congress Critter.

GJPinks
GJPinks

Come on TRS, he has to expect to be out of a job. Here is the solution: raise the tax rates on the top 2%, but let them figure their taxes with Turbo Tax so they don't have to pay any taxes. Everybody wins. Wow, I could be a Democrat Congress Critter.