Saxby Chambliss Is Breaking With Grover Norquist To Make It Easier To Cut Social Security

[Report1212]

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Please spread this far and wide. As a Georgian I am outraged over all the undeserved praise Saxby has been getting.

There has been much fanfare about Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss’s (GA) break from Washington Lobbyist Grover Norquist. On a local television station, Chambliss spoke of breaking with Norquist’s pledge to never raise taxes under any situation, saying, “I care too much about my country. I care a lot more about it than I do Grover Norquist.” [...]

The senator is not breaking from Norquist because he wants to raise taxes on the wealthy or big corporations. Rather, he’s doing it because it will make it easier to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits. [...]

For more than a year, Chambliss has been involved with a group of senators who support the Bowles-Simpson plan to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits while lowering the corporate tax rate. This Bowles-Simpson plan closes a few token tax loopholes, and also reduces the popular mortgage interest deduction. Norquist is opposed to closing even the tiny loopholes that the Bowles-Simpson plan closes, so he staunchly opposes the plan altogether — which also means opposing Chambliss.

Chambliss is willing to deal with closing small loopholes in the tax code in order to get to the wider goals of the Bowles-Simpson plan: cutting Social Security benefits by raising the retirement age, cutting Medicare benefits by capping overall spending, and dramatically lowering corporate tax rates.

Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/saxby-chambliss-is-breaking-with-grover-norquist-to-make-it-easier-to-cut-social-security/


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[still_one]

1. Raise the cap, no social security problem. If the Democrats are party to cutting or raising the age

Of social security and Medicare they will lose.

I had no illusions when I voted Democratic, it was for the Supreme Court.

If Democrats actually stand by what has been the foundation of their party since FDR, I will be extremely happy

[Iggy]

2. Can't Wait to See How Many

"Democrats" are on board with taking the meat axe to our social programs....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. That is SO disgusting. I am appalled.

[Report1212]

6. What do you expect from Saxby Chambliss?

This is the man who smeared a disabled Vietnam Veteran.

[Paladin]

9. I Will Never Forgive Him For That. (nt)

[Kaleva]

4. The home mortage deduction costs about 80 billion a year in lost revenue..

and it primarily benefits those who are better off.

"In truth, the mortgage interest tax deduction benefits the rich far more than middle-income families."

"Yet the mortgage interest deduction alone costs the Treasury some $80 billion a year."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/opinion/a-sensible-limit-to-the-mortgage-interest-deduction.html?_r=0

[Tutonic]

5. K & R

n/t

[tilsammans]

7. K and R!

And tweeted, too!

[Wounded Bear]

8. Why am I not surprised?

I knew he had to have an ulterior motive. He wouldn't change that much for "the good of the people."

Something about leopards and their spots, I guess.

[hrmjustin]

10. Never trust these people. They are bought and paid for.

[Octafish]

11. Compromise we can believe in.

Tax the rich.

[Report1212]

12. More often than not, "bipartisan" is code for help the rich nt

[Scuba]

13. Is this the same Saxby Chambliss who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism? Cred = Zero.