Obama May Veto His Tax Proposal if Not Granted Power to Raise Debt Ceiling
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama indicated that having unlimited powers to raise the debt ceiling without Congress’s approval may be more important to him than raising taxes — and he may veto his own tax hike proposal to take the country over the fiscal cliff if he does not get his ultimate wish.
Addressing corporate CEOs at the Business Roundtable, Obama said using the debt ceiling as leverage to get more spending cuts was a “bad strategy for America” and “it is a game I will not play.”
According to The Hill, Obama also told the business leaders that they “should not accept going through” another round of debt-ceiling negotiations like the one in 2011.
“We can’t go there again,” Obama said.
With his words, Obama was putting pressure on Republicans to adopt what many consider the most outrageous part of the White House’s initial offer to avert the fiscal cliff.
Republicans have noted that they were able to gain $2 trillion in spending cuts by using the debt ceiling as leverage. If the debt ceiling could be raised without Congressional approval, government spending would be even more excessive than it is already.
Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Obama’s proposal was an attempt at a “power grab.”
“The president wants to have the ability to raise the debt ceiling whenever he wants, for as much as he wants, with no responsibility or spending cuts attached,” Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told The Hill. “This is an idea opposed by Democrats and Republicans alike; it’s a power grab that has no support here.”
On Tuesday, Obama rejected House Speaker John Boehner’s counteroffer of $800 billion in new taxes without serious structural reforms to entitlements. The offer was was lambasted and criticized by conservatives.
Boehner said the White House plan could not pass either House of Congress and it was now incumbent upon Obama to send his plan to avert the fiscal cliff to Congress.
Harold
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No President should be given a blank check to indefinitely raise the national debt limit e.g. a socialist president (Obama could ineptly or intentionally—in debt Americas to the point that U.S. taxpayers can’t pay more taxes and their own bills concurrent with U.S. Government defaulting paying National Debt Interests. If U.S. Government doesn’t cut spending, U.S. Government will soon not be able to support a strong military to effectively protect Americans from enemies abroad.
It’s clearly evidenced that Obama is the enemy and it is my hope he will be dealt with, third world style-are we gonna sit here and passively watch that man destroy our country or are we going to do something about it? There’s way more of us that are against him than with him
Who is this FRAUD trying to threaten ?? Unless sotero knows something, like a pre-arrangement to collapse on the Repubs part, Tell him to go straight to hell.. THIS SOCIALIST is telling we the people ‘ to give him the knife to cut our own financial throats ‘. He is friggin CRAZY, or he thinks we are sooooo afraid of this ” Fiscal Cliff ” that he can have his way on its mention…The fiscal cliff is a whole lot safer than the alternative… Bankruptcy, caused by a total financial collapse of our system due to the unsustainable debt sotero has caused…LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE… DO NOT LAY DOWN AND LET EITHER PARTY SCREW YOU…..We need a shrinking of the govt anyway… Let’s do it on sotero’s watch…..