U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy explains his vote on fiscal cliff deal
January 9, 2013 at 11:00 am in Hudson Star-Observer
The House of Representatives passed the bill on a 257-167 vote on Jan. 2. The measure preserved the income tax cuts adopted during George W. Bush’s presidency for individuals with annual incomes up to $400,000, and for couples making up to $450,000 a year. Continue Reading
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So how do you “feel”? Please tell us.
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I feel fine Carbon, thanks for asking.
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The bill stinks and doesn’t solve nothing! I like his vote on this, but am disturbed by his vote for John Boehner as House Speaker.
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It’s obvious the Rep. Duffy just get the current way of doing things in Washington. Just spend the money and worry about where it’s coming from later…much later. I am sure the Democrats have a plan to make it all work at some point. We just have to be patient and trust that they know what they are doing. I know the Democrats blame the Republicans for a lot of things but we need to spend more money now to fix the economy once and for all. Makes sense doesn’t it?
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Hope he looks at all items within any proposed Farm Bill.
The Democrat Senate Farm Bill should NOT be passed with this section still added: SEC. 12211. DEFINITION OF RURAL AREA FOR PURPOSES OF THE HOUSING ACT OF 1949 would increase the pool of recipients and increased rural community population requirement to 35,000. This population level would be a small City not a true rural community. Changing the Census date to 2020 insures those who have already received fair share of benefits over past years and now self-sufficient to continue receiving such benefits. The purpose of rural programs is to help very small struggling communities grow and become self-sufficient, not to become a Welfare System for self-sufficient communities who have already received past benefits wanting more.
This section in the Senate Farm Bill and also in other bills such as House Bill H.R. 273 and H.R. 6416 is legislative back scratching for the purpose of continuing to feed funding to self sufficient city governments. Given the U.S. current deficit and debt how does increasing the pool of recipients by adding those who have already had their fair share in the past being greedy and wanting more, serve the best interest of true rural communities?
Again, we are 16+ Trillion in debt and it is time to separate the trash from all legislative bills to move forward. A Farm Bill should only be for farmers to insure proper Food Supply for our citizens and insure all farmers have access to proper insurance the same as any other business. Items need to be separated out and those needed should stand alone in separate bills which would eliminate petty bickering in the future such as now with farm needs vs. food stamps. A farm bill should not contain items for energy, broadband, housing, welfare, etc. Amendments were meant to tweak a bill to insure what is passed is the best for the people for that item (Farm Bill = Food Supply) and not meant to add back scratching garbage by legislators seeking campaign money. This is one reason why we are in financial crisis and enough is enough!!!
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$1 trillion in cuts over the next DECADE. Wow. We are adding $1 trillion to the debt every 279 days.
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