House rules change clears way for tax increases

Wow, I cannot believe this , we must be in some time warp!
They said this would never happen! Oh I'm sorry I am ignorent!!!!

One of the first key procedural votes in the Democrat-controlled
House last week established legislative rules that Republicans say
will make it easier to raise taxes by a simple majority vote.
The straight party-line vote received little attention Thursday
as Rep. Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, was elected speaker of
the House. But Republican leaders and conservative tax-cut
advocates said it opened up a huge loophole in a Republican-imposed
rule drawn from the Republicans' 1994 Contract with America,
which requires a supermajority, or three-fifths vote, to raise taxes.
Democrats unanimously voted down a motion offered by Minority
Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio that would have prevented them
from waiving the rule, a move that tax-cutters said signaled the
Democrats' intention to raise taxes between now and the 2008 elections.

"American taxpayers need to hold on to their wallets because the new
House rules concerning taxes are not worth the paper they're written
on," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).

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Thanks to Donald Lambro and Washington Times.

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coming your way!