Representative Erik Paulsen (MN-03) released the following statement after voting against the Senate deal regarding the fiscal cliff:
“When I first ran for Congress, I said that Washington was broken," Paulsen wrote. "Unfortunately, that is still the case. The Senate deal fails to bring any meaningful solution to reign in government spending or reduce the budget deficit. At a time when Washington borrows 46 cents on every dollar it spends, we need a long term solution to cut spending and fundamentally reform our outdated tax code."
Paulsen currently serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and is co-chair of the Congressional Medical Technology Caucus. He represents several area communities, including the Lake Minnetonka area, Maple Grove, Plymouth and Edina.
“It’s unconscionable that the Senate chose to give hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to industries like Hollywood and NASCAR, but chose not to stop the devastating new tax on the life-saving and life-improving medical device industry. The medical device tax, which took effect yesterday, will harm one of Minnesota’s true success stories and threaten its 35,000 high quality jobs.”
For more information on Rep. Paulsen’s work in Congress visit www.paulsen.house.gov.
a difference in a crisis. The NO puts Erick on the same page as Rand Paul and Michelle Bachman, not good company for representing the 3rd district
It is now clear that Erik was voted in, in part, by the 98% "lower income" constituents and is representing only the top 2%. His twisted logic does not fool those of us who recognize blind allegiance to party (or maybe only to Grover Nordquist) over the "General Welfare" of "We the People". Yes, spending must be addressed, but that is no reason to vote no to this last minute critical need to keep the economic recovery on track. Spending reductions will take a very long time to negotiate,
No more Putting the Cost of a War on the country's debt? Also, what about Medicare Part D? Would Congressman Paulsen commit to working to bring back up Medicare Part D WITH a real funding mechanism and if Congress will note re-pass Medicare Part D WITH a real funding mechanism then it will be scrapped?
Republicans spent like drunken sailors the last time they were in control and had no problem pushing through an unfunded $50 billion to $100 billion per year Medicare Part D program that was unfunded - AND - as an added bonus keeps the government from negotiating the cost of the drugs purchased. Republicans also never required the two recent - very, very, very expensive wars to be paid for - those were fine to run on the country's debt. BOTH Republican and Democrats love to spend money when they are in control. The difference is this: - Democrats at least say we'll spend - and here is the bill time to pay up. - Republicans will spend just as much if not more - put it on the country's debt - and then blame Democrats when the Republicans find themselves out of power.
Just look at the turnaround under President Obama - and still Conservatives are whining - even while their stock market investments are finally making money after the Bush fiasco's....
My goodness, for "Grave Peril" all we have to do is look at the final part of the Bush Administration to see what truly "Grave Peril" is... If the stock market being up over 60% is grave peril - sign me up. If we want to look at debt - let's look at the Bush tax cuts (decreasing revenue) while he took us into two massively expensive wars that were unpaid for - those are two of the biggest drivers for the explosion of our debt. The problem for Conservatives is that they have pronounced the death of the US Economy even before Obama won his first election - they said that the stock market would crash if he was elected President - they said that we would be attacked by terrorists because they would see us as weak - and yet - I look around and none of our big buildings are gone - the stock market is up - private sector hiring is up... Too many Conservatives just can't believe that such a thing could happen so they just refuse to believe it.
The dept limit Let's say a group of billionaires start a bank and put 50 billion in their bank. Now they can buy treasury bills at a 20 to one margin. For a 50 billion dollar investment they can own a trillion worth of our dept. At 2% interest that equals 40% interest a year with no risk. In less then 3 years they have already made their 50 billion back. This is why Democrats don't care about he dept limit or raising taxes. For the most part it is billionaires taking money from millionaires. Both the tea party and occupy wall street know there is a problem. They just don't know what the problem is.