Boehner Outlines “Pledge” to Create Jobs, Cut Spending, & More

Boehner led Republicans in launching a “Pledge to America” last week – a governing agenda built by actually listening to voters – that could be implemented today if Democrats were willing to work together. The Pledge includes plans for:

>> CREATING NEW JOBS: The Washington Post says “Small businesses would be able to deduct from taxes up to 20 percent of their annual income.” “Republicans would end the new requirement, effective 2012, to file a tax form every time they spend more than $600 per year at any one company, such as an office supply store or a gas station,” writes economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth. The Wall Street Journal says “Republicans understand that above all this year voters want to stop the Obama-Pelosi agenda. Stop it cold. Stop the spending, the tax increases and the huge expansion of the regulatory state.”

>> CUTTING GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Michael Barone wrote that the plan would “roll back non-defense discretionary spending to 2008 levels.” The Union Leader says Republicans want to “cap discretionary spending; roll back spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels; end TARP and federal support of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; place sunsets on federal programs; ‘require a full accounting of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid’.” There’s also “a freeze on hiring federal workers except security personnel” according to the Associated Press.

>> REPEALING OBAMACARE & STARTING OVER: The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Pledge calls for “repealing the health-care law championed by President Barack Obama.” National Review says Boehner and Republicans “plan to work toward their own health-care reforms, including medical-malpractice reform, freedom to buy health insurance across state lines, and better-funded high-risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions.” The National Right to Life Committee says the Pledge “also includes pledges to ‘establish a government-wide prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion and subsidies for insurance coverage that includes abortion.’”

>> REFORMING CONGRESS: Diana Furchtgott-Roth says “New proposed rules include a mandatory three-day online review period for all bills, and changes to rules to make it easier for members of Congress to get a vote on amendments that would cut spending.” The Union Leader says Republicans would also “require legislation to identify where in the Constitution it is authorized.”

>> KEEPING AMERICA SECURE: The Washington Post says “the Pentagon would receive increased funding to more quickly implement a ballistic missile defense system.” The Christian Science Monitor says the Pledge would “boost national and border security, including fully funding missile defense, enforcing sanctions against Iran, and reaffirming the authority of state and local law enforcement to assist in the enforcement of all federal immigration laws…”

Read more about and view the Pledge here courtesy CBS News.

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READ MORE:

• Boehner: Delaying a Vote to Stop All the Tax Hikes “Irresponsible” (9/27/10)
• NRO Highlights Ohio’s Vulnerability to the Democrats’ Jobs-Killing Agenda (9/21/10)
• Boehner Challenges Pelosi to Hold Up-or-Down Vote on Stopping the Tax Hikes (9/16/10)
• Boehner’s Bipartisan Plan to Cut Spending, Stop the Tax Hikes – Now (9/8/10)
• Obama Promotes More of the Same Failed “Stimulus” Spending (9/7/10)

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