{"id":2487,"date":"2010-12-08T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T13:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2010-12-08T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T13:05:18","slug":"a_different_perspective_on_the_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"A Different Perspective On The Last Days Of This Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heritage.org<\/a> posted an article on Tuesday about some of the antics currently going on in the outgoing Congress.  <\/p>\n

The article points out that the compromise points the Republicans agreed to in the tax deal are bad policy (reinstating the death tax (at 35% with a $5 million threshold), 13 more months of non-offset unemployment benefits, and a temporary 2 percentage point reduction in the payroll tax to replace the failed “Make-Work-Pay” stimulus tax policy).  <\/p>\n

The article states:<\/p>\n

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“Heritage has long opposed any return of the death tax, which is bad for small business and wrong on principle. The unemployment benefits are not only bad for job growth but increase spending at a time when we need to be reducing it, and, as economists have long recognized, perpetuate long-term unemployment. As for temporary tax holidays, they have proven to be completely ineffective.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article further points out:<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Congressional Democrats were busy plotting a last-gasp massive spending surge back on Capitol Hill. Written by the Senate Democratic majority in backrooms, a draft omnibus spending is circulating that will fund all federal government agencies not just through fiscal year (FY) 2011 but into 2012 as well. Heritage Foundation Distinguished Fellow Ernest Istook <\/em>details<\/em><\/a> the spending spree:<\/em><\/p>\n