great point. when it comes to raising the age, yes it makes sense but you look at those in the military fighting for this country risking their lives and they are old enough to have a gun and to fight for our freedom. so then why would that same age because you aren t in the military you aren t given the same rights? that s one of the proposals that has never made sense to me. we can have a discussion about what age all of these things should happen and we re having one about even lowering the voting age to 16 which is not what is going to happen here. i don t think it makes sense you would have to wait to own a gun until 21 if you can serve our country. at this moment in time we don t want to be discouraging anyone from public service and protecting us and doing a job that frankly a lot of americans don t want to do. so that doesn t make sense to me. the bump stock discussion makes a lot of sense to me. tighter gun reforms. cutting loopholes.
what the house gop wants to do the bill does not restore the $789 million cut to the program under the ed department. it extends the two-year pay freeze for federal workers and it requires the post office to deliver mail on saturdays. so it doesn t seem like the republicans have learned much from the elections, especially since there was a sweeping mandate from americans that most were okay with trying to figure out the act with the revenue. cutting loopholes. i mean, obviously, that s been true. there s been no real movement on the anti- budget. but the republican view is they permitted democrats to raise taxes by about $600 billion. which notes with less with boehner, he was around $800 billion. they ve committed tight move forward on the house floor, they now don t ever to v triez taxes again and it s now about more
is, the government s power to control one s life derives from its power to tax. we believe that that power should be minimized. there are some republicans who have thought that, perhaps, perhaps, maybe, we should have raised taxes to pay for the iraq and afghanistan wars, or at least partially pay for them, but they would not dare say so, because that would violate a written pledge they had made to grover norquist. who presents every republican running for the house, the senate, or the white house with a pledge to sign, saying that he or she will never, ever support raising taxes in any way. including by cutting loopholes out of the tax code that might then force an individual or corporation to pay a higher tax bill. something closer to their actual rate that they re supposed to pay. david gregory pointed out
reform, whose mission statement is, the government s power to control one s life derives from its power to tax. we believe that that power should be minimized. there are some republicans who have thought that, perhaps, perhaps, maybe, we should have raised taxes to pay for the iraq and afghanistan wars, or at least partially pay for them, but they would not dare say so, because that would violate a written pledge they had made to grover norquist. who presents every republican running for the house, the senate, or the white house with a pledge to sign, saying that he or she will never, ever support raising taxes in any way. including by cutting loopholes out of the tax code that might then force an individual or corporation to pay a higher tax bill. something closer to their actual rate that they re supposed to pay. david gregory pointed out
house with the pledge to sign, saying that he or she will never, ever support raising taxes in any way, including by cutting loopholes out of the tax code that might then force an individual or corporation to pay a higher tax bill, something closer to their actual rate that they re supposed to pay. grover norquist has the significants of virtually every republican member of congress on a document pledging not to raise taxes. he s prepared to use that document against any republican who violates that solemn oath that republicans take to grover norquist to follow the dictates of grover norquist. so john boehner and every other republican leader says tax increases are off the table, not