Together with his fellow Republicans, Erik Paulsen voted yes to the "Cut, Cap and Balance Act." TheMiddleClass.org wrote that this legislation passed by the House would crush economic security and job growth for millions of Americans. The AFL-CIO, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Common Cause, and the NAACP are among the 247 organizations who sent a letter to every member of Congress stating that “a balanced budget constitutional amendment would damage the economy, not strengthen it.” This legislation cuts government domestic programs that affect the lives of middle-class people up to 67%. Fortunately, the Senate blocked this legislation.
The details of this bill paint a stark, chilling image of what conservatives would do to your government. This legislation not only requires a wholesale gutting of domestic spending programs in health care, education, the environment, economic development and aid to those in need, but would chisel into stone the Republican Party's opposition to anything that would increase revenues. Robert Greenstein, President of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, concluded his analysis of the "Cut, Cap, and Balance Act" by stating, "an impoverished elderly widow living on Supplemental Security Income — which provides benefits that lift people to just 75 percent of the poverty line — could have her assistance cut back under the measure’s across-the-board budget cuts even as millionaire hedge-fund managers retained their lucrative tax breaks." Read his article.
"The America envisioned under this legislation is an America that does not invest in its future or its people. Its federal government would stand on the sidelines as its public schools crumbled, its universities continued to price themselves beyond the reach of middle-class families, its infrastructure decayed, its research fell behind that of the rest of the industrialized world and its people became increasingly impoverished, in spirit if not financially. It is indeed the most radical transformation of America that the mainstream of the Republican Party has ever put forward—a world where the rich are unfettered in their quest for ever larger shares of wealth and the middle class is officially abandoned."
See theMiddleClass.org's full analysis of the bill.
How does TheMiddleClass.org rate Senator Paulsen? He voted 0% for bills that favored the middle class and those aspiring to the middle class.
The details of this bill paint a stark, chilling image of what conservatives would do to your government. This legislation not only requires a wholesale gutting of domestic spending programs in health care, education, the environment, economic development and aid to those in need, but would chisel into stone the Republican Party's opposition to anything that would increase revenues. Robert Greenstein, President of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, concluded his analysis of the "Cut, Cap, and Balance Act" by stating, "an impoverished elderly widow living on Supplemental Security Income — which provides benefits that lift people to just 75 percent of the poverty line — could have her assistance cut back under the measure’s across-the-board budget cuts even as millionaire hedge-fund managers retained their lucrative tax breaks." Read his article.
"The America envisioned under this legislation is an America that does not invest in its future or its people. Its federal government would stand on the sidelines as its public schools crumbled, its universities continued to price themselves beyond the reach of middle-class families, its infrastructure decayed, its research fell behind that of the rest of the industrialized world and its people became increasingly impoverished, in spirit if not financially. It is indeed the most radical transformation of America that the mainstream of the Republican Party has ever put forward—a world where the rich are unfettered in their quest for ever larger shares of wealth and the middle class is officially abandoned."
See theMiddleClass.org's full analysis of the bill.
How does TheMiddleClass.org rate Senator Paulsen? He voted 0% for bills that favored the middle class and those aspiring to the middle class.
