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Boehner’s Bipartisan Plan to Cut Spending, Stop the Tax Hikes – Now

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Congressman Boehner was interviewed on Good Morning America (GMA) live from West Chester today and announced a two-point bipartisan plan for September aimed at ending some of the uncertainty facing small businesses and helping create new jobs: cut spending and stop the tax hikes.

Specifically, Boehner called on Democrats to join Republicans this month in:

>> CUTTING GOVERNMENT SPENDING TO 2008 LEVELS: The Wall Street Journal says Boehner called for “cutting federal nonsecurity spending back to 2008 levels, prior to the stimulus spending that the Obama administration championed” – and prior to the bailouts and the takeovers. The Hill quotes Boehner saying this “would save $100 billion this year alone.”

>> FREEZING CURRENT TAX RATES FOR TWO YEARS: According to the Washington Times, Boehner said freezing tax rates “will help settle both jumpy consumers and wary small businesses” who are crippled with uncertainty. ABC News quotes Boehner saying “You can’t have a stronger economy if you’re raising taxes on the very people you expect to invest in our economy to begin hiring people again.”

Boehner’s two-point proposal could be implemented right now if Democrats are willing. It builds on the several solutions Boehner outlined in a recent speech that would help get the economy moving again. Watch Boehner’s interview on GMA here:

As Boehner said today, “if we’re able to do this together, I think we’ll show the American people that we understand what’s going on in the country and we’ll be able to get our economy moving again.”

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Obama Promotes More of the Same Failed “Stimulus” Spending

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

President Obama is traveling to Ohio tomorrow – following Congressman Boehner’s speech on how to get the economy moving again – to promote another massive round of “stimulus” spending.

Boehner has outlined five straightforward steps that would help create new jobs now including aggressively cutting government spending, stopping the tax hikes on small businesses, and more – steps backed by a group of 100 economists who are urging spending cuts to get the economy going.

The president, on the other hand, is pitching more of the same “stimulus” spending that hasn’t worked. In fact, since the trillion-dollar “stimulus” was enacted in February 2009, Ohio has lost more than 133,000 jobs and almost 3 million have been lost nationwide. Democrats said the “stimulus” would keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent. Today it’s 9.6 percent nationally and more than 10 percent throughout Ohio.

Despite the failure of the “stimulus,” and despite the fact that we’re more than $13 trillion in debt, President Obama insists that billions in additional “stimulus” spending will “create jobs immediately.” It won’t.

More “stimulus” spending will not get the economy going. And the Obama administration knows it. Despite the president’s promise, one “senior Obama administration official” says Obama’s spending plan “would not have an immediate impact on the economy” (except to drive us deeper into debt).

Officials also “declined to make predictions about how many job could be created” by spending more money we don’t have – perhaps because their previous estimates were so wildly inaccurate.

As Boehner said yesterday, “If we’ve learned anything from the past 18 months, it’s that we can’t spend our way to prosperity.”

Instead, Ohio needs leaders who are committed to creating new jobs – not growing government and adding to the debt. Check out Boehner’s “no cost” jobs plan, as well as his proposals for cutting government spending, reining in jobs-killing federal regulations, repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with common-sense reforms that lower costs and protect jobs, and more.

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Voters Want Less Spending, Not Higher Taxes, to Fuel Job Growth & Cut the Deficit

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Congressman Boehner argued in a major speech yesterday that, “We will not solve our fiscal challenges until we cut spending and have real economic growth – and we won’t have real economic growth if we keep raising taxes on small businesses.” Turns out a majority of voters in Ohio and elsewhere agree.

>> VOTERS WANT LESS SPENDING, NOT HIGHER TAXES: Reuters reports that “Americans want the deficit tackled through lower spending rather than through higher taxes.” In fact, “[n]early half of respondents, 49 percent” – a plurality – “said current tax rates should be maintained for all Americans.

>> A MAJORITY OF OHIOANS OPPOSE TAX HIKES: Michael Barone wrote in Real Clear Politics that “two-thirds of Ohio voters are dead set against tax increases.” The Dayton Daily News reported a similar finding this week, noting that “[s]ixty-two percent of Ohio likely voters” oppose raising taxes to fuel more government spending. Fifty-two percent of Ohioans oppose raising taxes on anybody.

In his speech, Boehner advocated for an “aggressive spending reduction program,” calling for a freeze on “federal spending at 2008 levels” and highlighting the fact that Republicans have “already identified $1.3 trillion in specific spending cuts that could be implemented immediately.” These steps are endorsed by a group of 100 distinguished economists who agree that spending cuts are needed to get our economy moving again.

Boehner was also clear as day on his opposition to tax hikes. He said, “Raising taxes on families and small businesses during a recession is a recipe for disaster — both for our economy and for the deficit. Period. End of story.’”

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Boehner: We Need a Fresh Start Focused on Unshackling Small Businesses

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Congressman Boehner delivered a major speech on jobs and the economy today where he outlined plans – including an “aggressive spending reduction” – to get our economy moving. You can watch Boehner’s full remarks here courtesy CSPAN.org.

The Associated Press quoted Boehner arguing that, “Endless spending sprees, entangled tax structures and bureaucracy run amok” are all “outgrowths of a tired, bloated and broken Washington.” Boehner believes that “employers are afraid to invest in an economy stalled by the president’s economic stimulus package and hamstrung by uncertainty,” and that “‘[t]he prospect of higher taxes, stricter rules and more regulations has employers sitting on their hands…’”

Part of the solution, Boehner says, is “a fresh start focused on unshackling small businesses, unleashing the entrepreneurship of our people and helping families across this great nation realize the American Dream.” Boehner then outlined five key steps President Obama can take to help get our economy going and creating new jobs:

#1: CUT GOVERNMENT SPENDING TO HELP CREATE NEW JOBS

>> “House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Tuesday called on President Barack Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and top economic adviser Larry Summers, extend the Bush-era tax cuts and commit to an ‘aggressive spending reduction program.’” (Boehner Calls on Obama to Commit to ‘Aggressive Spending Reduction’, Roll Call, 8/24/10)

>> “Boehner, the House minority leader, called on the Obama administration once again to extend Bush-era tax cuts and freeze federal spending at 2008 levels.” (Boehner: Fire Geithner and Summers, Politico, 8/24/10)

>> “‘Republicans on the House Budget Committee, led by Congressman Paul Ryan, have already identified $1.3 trillion in specific spending cuts that could be implemented immediately. These are common-sense steps – like canceling unspent ’stimulus’ and TARP bailout funds – that put the brakes on Washington’s out-of-control spending spree. Republicans have also proposed establishing strict budget caps to limit federal spending on an annual basis. If we reduce spending from current levels and impose a hard cap on future growth, we can save taxpayers more than $340 billion and we can make sure this is the last Washington spending spree of its kind.’” (John Boehner at City Club: Fire the Obama economic team, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/24/10)

#2: STOP THE TAX HIKES ON FAMILIES & SMALL BUSINESSES

>> “‘One of President Obama’s predecessors once said that ‘an economy constrained by high tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget, just as it will never create enough jobs,” Boehner said. ‘That president was John F. Kennedy. So let me be clear: Raising taxes on families and small businesses during a recession is a recipe for disaster — both for our economy and for the deficit. Period. End of story.’” (Boehner to Obama: Don’t raise taxes, The Hill, 8/24/10)

>> “An excerpt … ‘We will not solve our fiscal challenges until we cut spending and have real economic growth – and we won’t have real economic growth if we keep raising taxes on small businesses.’” (Boehner: ‘19 months of government-as-community organizer have failed’, Human Events, 8/24/10)

#3: VETO JOBS-KILLING BILLS PASSED DURING THE “LAME DUCK” SESSION OF CONGRESS

>> “Boehner, who could become House speaker if the GOP recaptures a majority this November, also urged Obama not to let Democrats use a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress to ram through controversial measures. Those could include a carbon-tax scheme that would drive up energy costs, Boehner said, and a union-election system that could deprive workers a right to vote on union membership in private.” (John Boehner at City Club: Fire the Obama economic team, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/24/10)

#4: STOP OBSTRUCTING GOP ATTEMPTS TO REPEAL HARMFUL OBAMACARE MANDATES

>> “Boehner is also calling for elimination of the so-called 1099 mandate, which would require some employers to disclose anything they buy in excess of $600. ‘What is the point of making employers and entrepreneurs spend $17 billion to send all this paperwork to Washington, where it’s going to cost about $10 billion to log it in and file it away?’ Boehner plans to say. ‘Talk about overhead.’ (John Boehner: Fire Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers, Politico, 8/24/10)

>> “Boehner also asks Obama to urge Congressional Democratic leaders to stop obstructing GOP attempts to repeal what he calls the new health care law’s ‘job killing’ mandate and calls on the president to submit an ‘aggressive spending reduction package’ to Congress. (Boehner calls for Obama to fire Geithner, CNN, 8/24/10)

#5: ASK FOR & ACCEPT THE RESIGNATIONS OF WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC TEAM

>> “In a speech in Cleveland this morning, House Republican Leader John Boehner calls for their resignations. Going right for the top, too, he says: ‘We’ve tried 19 months of government-as-community organizer.  It hasn’t worked.  Our fresh start needs to begin now.’” (Summers & Geithner Should Go, National Review, 8/24/10)

>> “Although they rejected Boehner’s suggestion, Van Hollen and Levin stopped short of a full-throated endorsement for Geithner and Summers, reflecting the fact that both have come under criticism from Democrats as well as Republicans. In a hard-hitting speech in Cleveland, Boehner criticized Obama’s economic team as lacking ‘real-world, hands-on experience.’ He said that while ousting Geithner and Summers was not a substitute for creating jobs, ‘we do not have the luxury of waiting months for the president to pick scapegoats for his failing ‘stimulus’ policies.’” (Senior House Dems stand by Obama economic team, The Hill, 8/24/10)

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Sixty-Two Percent of Ohioans Oppose President Obama’s Tax Hikes

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

The Dayton Daily News reports that “[s]ixty-two percent of Ohio likely voters” – reeling from 16 straight months of a double-digit unemployment rate – oppose raising taxes to fuel more government spending. That’s “8 points above the finding on the national level.” Fifty-two percent of Ohioans oppose raising taxes on anybody.

So what do Democrats want to do? That’s right: Democrats want to raise taxes on small businesses starting January 1st. In fact, according to Joint Tax Committee analysis and the Washington Post, the Democrat tax hikes would impact “half of all small-business income.”

How exactly would raising taxes on small businesses create new jobs in Ohio? Good question, but don’t expect an answer from Democrats.

Vice President Biden, in Toledo today, will likely ignore Ohioans’ opposition to higher taxes — just as President Obama did last week in Columbus.

That’s why Congressman Boehner is turning up the heat tomorrow in a major speech at the City Club of Cleveland. According to reports, Boehner will outline better solutions to end the economic uncertainty crippling job creators, cut government spending, and help get people back to work.

You can get a preview of some of what Boehner might say be reviewing his plans to help small businesses create new jobs, cut government spending, rein in jobs-killing federal regulations, and repeal ObamaCare and replace it with common-sense reforms that lower costs and protect jobs.

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Boehner to Obama: How Will Raising Taxes Create Jobs in Ohio?

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

President Obama is in Columbus today (where workers got kicked off the job when Obama kicked off “Recovery Summer,” and where “stimulus” dollars went to high-end hotels, banquet centers, and El Salvador) to tout his “stimulus” that didn’t work – even as he pushes for higher taxes on small businesses.

Congressman Boehner greeted the president with an op-ed in the Troy Daily News asking a simple question: “How will raising taxes put Ohioans back to work?” Boehner wrote:

“The administration claims that these tax increases will only affect a small number of Americans, but according to an analysis by the non-partisan Committee on Joint Taxation, Congress’s official tax scorekeeper, half of small business income in America will face higher taxes under the president’s plan. The very threat of these tax hikes, combined with the new health care law and the hundreds of new rules and mandates coming out of the Obama Administration, are freezing employers with uncertainty at a time when we need them to invest in their growth.

“House Republicans are listening to the Americans who are fed up with Washington Democrats’ tax-and-spend agenda and offering better solutions to help small businesses create new jobs. Over the past year we’ve presented President Obama a ‘no-cost’ jobs plan and a proposal to immediately cut $1.3 trillion in government spending. This common-sense plan would put the nation back on a path to fiscal discipline by ending TARP, reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and enacting strict caps to limit government spending on an annual basis.”

Read Boehner’s full op-ed here.

Remember, the president and top Democrats are determined to raise taxes on job creators to fuel their drive for more government spending. Boehner argues that more spending won’t fix our economy, and even told President Obama at the White House that his tax hike “will hurt small businesses, many of which pay income taxes as if they are a household.” But Democrats aren’t listening – and Ohio is paying the price.

Weapons of Mass Discussion blog quoted Boehner today saying, “More than 130,000 Ohioans have lost their jobs since February 2009, and the states’ unemployment rate remains at a painfully-high 10.5 percent. … More waste, more debt, and fewer jobs. That’s not the picture of a recovery. It’s the epitome of failure.”

That’s why Boehner is taking his fight directly to voters, promoting plans to help small businesses create new jobs by cutting government spending, reining in jobs-killing federal regulations, repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with common-sense reforms that lower costs and protect jobs, and more.

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Boehner: How will raising taxes put Ohioans back to work?

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

KEY QUOTE: “The very threat of these tax hikes, combined with the new health care law and the hundreds of new rules and mandates coming out of the Obama Administration, are freezing employers with uncertainty at a time when we need them to invest in their growth.”

How will raising taxes put Ohioans back to work?
John Boehner
Troy Daily News
August 18, 2010

Disappointed Ohioans are asking “where are the jobs?” as President Obama returned Tuesday to Columbus – the city where he kicked off his “Recovery Summer” tour back in June – following a week of troubling news on the economy.

New jobless claims rose to the highest levels in six months. A July shortfall put our budget on pace to exceed an already jaw-dropping $1.47 trillion deficit this year. Foreclosures rose 9 percent from June.

These were the headlines that came as terrible news for the 14.6 million Americans looking for jobs and countless others struggling to make ends meet, and further confirmation that the administration’s “stimulus” policies have not created jobs “immediately” and held unemployment under 8 percent as the president promised. Since February 2009, our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs while the unemployment rate has grown to 9.5 percent. In Ohio, and across much of the Eighth Congressional District, the unemployment rate is a full point higher.

Unfortunately, President Obama and his team have decided it is easier to attack me and my fellow Republicans than it is to change course and scrap the failed “stimulus” policies that are hurting our economy and stifling job growth. Just last week the vice president’s chief economist went so far as to accuse me of “want[ing] a lot of people to lose their jobs” for suggesting that unspent “stimulus” dollars be returned.

Never mind that this is an idea worthy of consideration in the wake of the Strickland administration’s “Rebate-Gate,” which resulted in “stimulus” dollars being used to outsource work to El Salvador, the simple fact of the matter is that a nation in our fiscal condition should be spending less, not more. No one wants to see more job losses, which is why we must heed the advice of more than 100 economists and act immediately to cut government spending now and prevent the administration’s plans for a massive tax hike on American families and small businesses from going into effect at the end of the year.

The administration claims that these tax increases will only affect a small number of Americans, but according to an analysis by the non-partisan Committee on Joint Taxation, Congress’s official tax scorekeeper, half of small business income in America will face higher taxes under the president’s plan. The very threat of these tax hikes, combined with the new health care law and the hundreds of new rules and mandates coming out of the Obama Administration, are freezing employers with uncertainty at a time when we need them to invest in their growth.

House Republicans are listening to the Americans who are fed up with Washington Democrats’ tax-and-spend agenda and offering better solutions to help small businesses create new jobs. Over the past year we’ve presented President Obama a “no-cost” jobs plan and a proposal to immediately cut $1.3 trillion in government spending. This common-sense plan would put the nation back on a path to fiscal discipline by ending TARP, reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and enacting strict caps to limit government spending on an annual basis.

We’ve also launched an America Speaking Out project to engage every day Americans in building a new policy agenda for the nation. Already hundreds of thousands have logged on to submit their ideas and discuss other common-sense proposals to get our economy moving again.

Our economy will recover, but it will do so because of the hard work and entrepreneurship of the American people, not more wasteful Washington spending. Visit AmericaSpeakingOut.com today, and join us in building a more responsive and less costly government focused squarely on putting people back to work.

John Boehner represents Ohio’s 8th District, which includes all of Darke, Miami, and Preble counties, most of Butler and Mercer counties, and the northeastern corner of Montgomery County. He was first elected to Congress in 1990.

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Voters Reject ObamaCare’s Unconstitutional Mandates in Missouri

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Everyday Americans, small businesses, and elected officials are all fighting to scrap ObamaCare. Yesterday, voters in Missouri became the first in the nation to take the fight to the ballot box and make clear: they want nothing to do with the Democrats’ government takeover of health care and its unconstitutional mandates.

Congressman Boehner is leading the fight to repeal ObamaCare and start over with common-sense, step-by-step reforms that will actually lower costs for small businesses right here in our district. For example:

>> John signed on to two efforts in Congress aimed at forcing a vote on repealing the Democrats’ jobs-killing government takeover of health care;

>> He’s endorsed Ohio House Joint Resolution 3, legislation “that would allow Ohioans to opt out of any mandated health-care plan they don’t want to join”;

>> He’s urged Ohio’s attorney general to join other state attorneys general in challenging ObamaCare;

>> He’s written Governor Strickland and demanded that he guarantee Ohioans that tax dollars won’t be used to pay for abortions under ObamaCare; and

>> He’s backed the proposed “Health Care Freedom Amendment” that would “preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage.”

We’ve outlined before how ObamaCare is hurting job growth in Ohio, causing uncertainty for private sector employers, and sending health care spending skyward. We’ve also shown how a majority of Ohioans favor repealing the law. Yesterday’s vote in Missouri shows that the fight to stop this reckless, jobs-killing, unconstitutional government takeover isn’t limited to the Buckeye State – it’s nationwide. Here’s the story:

>> 70% OF MISSOURI VOTERS REJECT OBAMACARE: “Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a key provision of President Barack Obama’s health care law, sending a clear message of discontent to Washington and Democrats less than 100 days before the midterm elections. With about 70 percent of the vote counted late Tuesday, nearly three-quarters of voters had supported the measure.” (Associated Press, 8/4/10)

>> MISSOURI IS FIRST IN THE NATION TO REJECT OBAMACARE: “Missouri voters on Tuesday easily approved a measure aimed at nullifying the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people made known their dismay over the issue at the ballot box. The measure was intended to invalidate a crucial element of President Obama’s health care law — namely, that most people be required to get health insurance or pay a tax penalty.” (New York Times, 8/4/10)

>> VOTE TO BLOCK OBAMACARE WAS BIPARTISAN: “According to preliminary results, just under 668,000 Missourians voted in favor of Proposition C. Only 578,000 Republicans voted in their party’s primaries. Another 40,000 voters appear to have cast votes on Proposition C without voting in either the Republican or Democratic primaries. So, even if you assume that every single Republican voted for the initiative and every person who didn’t vote in a primary voted for it, at least 40,000 Democrats — more than one in every eight Democratic primary voters — voted against the centerpiece of President Obama’s health-care plan. And these aren’t just any registered Democrats; these are the party activists, the Democratic base. Do we need any more evidence of how unpopular this bill is?” (National Review, 8/4/10)

>> MISSOURI’S NOT ALONE – THE FIGHT IS GOING ON ALL OVER THE COUNTRY: “Similar initiatives are being pushed in several U.S. states by Republicans and groups who say the new healthcare law marks an unprecedented seizure of power by the federal government. The effort was invigorated on Monday when a federal judge ruled that Virginia could proceed with a lawsuit that argues the federal requirement that its residents have health insurance is unconstitutional. Some 20 other states have made a similar legal challenge.” (Reuters, 8/4/10)

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Boehner in Hamilton Journal News: Cut Spending, Stop the Tax Hikes

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

In an op-ed for the Hamilton Journal-News, Congressman Boehner addressed the uncertainty facing private sector employers here in our district due to the jobs-killing agenda of President Obama and Democrats in Congress. He wrote:

“Recently I held a telephone ‘townhall’ to listen to concerns and answer questions from 8th Congressional District constituents. …

“One caller, Sara in West Chester, expressed her concern about the looming tax hikes that are scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, hitting millions of American families and small businesses at a time when they can least afford it. Certainly, this is one of the most important issues currently before Congress.

“Small business operators in the 8th District and across the country today are filled with massive uncertainty as they try to determine how all of the new government regulations and rules in Washington Democrats’ new policies — like ObamaCare — are going to impact them, and they don’t know what the tax rates are going to be. As a result, they are holding off on hiring. …

“Instead of continuing on with more of this tax-and-spend agenda, it’s time that Congress got serious about reducing the size of government, and providing the fiscal discipline that more than 100 economists say is needed to help small businesses create jobs and get our economy moving again.”

Read Boehner’s full op-ed by clicking here. Boehner also appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss the jobs-killing impact of President Obama’s spending spree and coming tax hike on families and small businesses, and to outline better ways to get our economy moving again. Here are some excerpts from Boehner’s interview:

Boehner said, “Let’s stop this stimulus spending that … is running up debt on the back of our kids and grandkids,” “get rid of the wasteful Washington spending,” and “take away the uncertainty that is coming from this administration and this Democrat Congress, so that employers can reinvest in our economy.” And he said we need to “to keep tax rates low,” and make Democrats aren’t “going to increase taxes at a time when our economy is so weak.”

John has a lot of support for his vision of growing the economy, not the government. For example:

>> A new survey shows that 73 percent of Americans want to cut government spending, not raise taxes. Resurgent Republic found that “[w]idespread opposition to tax increases is grounded in the perception that the federal deficit is driven by too much spending rather than too little revenue.”

>> A letter signed by 100 economists argues that spending cuts are the best way to get the economy moving. Boehner presented this letter to President Obama himself.

>> Even the president’s chief economist, Dr. Christina Romer, thinks tax hikes will hurt economic growth. She wrote in last month’s issue of American Economic Review that “tax increases appear to have a very large, sustained, and highly negative impact on output” and that “tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects.”

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Enquirer Backs Proposal to “REIN” In Job-Killing Federal Regulations

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Congressman Boehner has sponsored the REINS Act, legislation by Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) aimed at bolstering Congressional oversight of unaccountable federal bureaucrats and the jobs-killing regulations they impose.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says the bill “would require Congress to actively approve any major new rule (one with $100 million or more annual economic impact) proposed by a federal agency before it can be enforced.” The Enquirer explains why these regulations – and increasing Congressional accountability for them – should concern tax-paying Ohioans:

“They cost us money. This hidden federal ‘regulatory tax’ costs American people more than $1.1 trillion a year, according to a study commissioned by the Small Business Administration. This is over and above what we pay in taxes, and comes in the costs of complying with measures that aren’t even in the laws themselves.

“They are inefficient. Regulatory agencies naturally tend to write rules that will increase their power and keep them in business, perpetuating and growing their bureaucracy.

“They create uncertainty. Economic experts say the long delay and unknown details of final regulations forces businesses to postpone decisions on employment and expansion. That’s especially harmful right now, delaying the nation’s recovery. ‘The uncertainty is impeding investment and hiring,’ writes Stanford University economist Michael J. Boskin.

“They usurp representative government. The real decision-making is turned over to agencies that Congress has no authority over, with entrenched bureaucrats that even presidents can’t control. The health care reform law, for example, turns over power to the department of Health and Human Services to decide what kinds of health insurance plans are acceptable.”

Read the whole editorial here. This is one more example of Boehner taking proactive steps to help create new jobs and make our government more open and accountable. Boehner also presented President Obama with a “no cost” jobs plan and several options for cutting government spending – the best way to boost the economy according to 100 economists. He backs straightforward proposals for repealing the president’s government takeover of health care and replacing it with common-sense reforms that will lower costs. He’s aggressively fought the “cap and trade” national energy tax that would devastate Ohio employers and famers.  And he’s an ardent advocate for posting all bills online at least three days before a vote by Congress.

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