PETER KIRSANOW: TODAY’S QUESTIONS FOR OBAMA JULY 26, 2011
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Today’s Questions for the President
July 26, 2011 10:16 A.M.
By Peter Kirsanow
In your address on the debt ceiling last night, you stressed the need
for a “balanced approach” to the issue, i.e., one that includes both
tax increases and spending cuts. You provided some specifics as to the
tax increases: raising taxes on corporations, hedge-fund managers,
those making more than $250,000, corporate jet owners, and “patriotic
Americans” – so that everyone will pay their “fair share.” You
provided no specific spending cuts. During your July 22 press
conference, however, you promised to provide specifics: as you put it,
a ”tick-tock” and a “walk- through” of your negotiations with
Republicans, as well as going through “all the paper” of your plan.
That was four days ago, and your administration warns that failure to
raise the debt ceiling in the next few days would be cataclysmic.
Accordingly:
Where is your plan? When can we read it?
What specific cuts — to which programs and by how much — does it
include?
How are reforms to Medicaid and Medicare structured?
Precisely how much, in constant dollars, are you going to cut
Medicaid and Medicare in FY 2012, 2013, 2014 ,etc.? How does Obamacare
factor into your plan and what baselines does your plan use?
Does your goal of having everyone pay his “fair share” include raising
taxes on the nearly 50 percent of Americans who pay no federal income
taxes? If not, don’t you consider those individuals “patriotic
Americans”?
Why does Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appear to be oblivious to
your plan? Why haven’t you clued him in?=
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