Page 5 - Increase Spending News Today

Obamacare saying that the presidents health care law is not being administered fairly, and so they think that was something, a noble fight worth taking up. bottom line, though, is there are great concerns with the clock really becoming a factor, bill. bill: just about a week ago, mike, you came on the air and told us whats striking to you is the lack of urgency on the hill. do you still sense that a with time running down? >> reporter: you know, bill, late friday night everybody seemed optimisti...

>> what will you do -- >> we are best and stay united on basic principles of less government, less spending. youll see us stay unite thad we wont increase spending. the sequester has been one of the good things thats happened, one of the few things weve done where weve actually controlled spending somewhat in this town. >> let me ask you two direct questions. if you say youre not willing to accept that, are you prepared to let this go past the deadline on thursday when the secretary of the treas...

>> what will you do -- >> we are best and stay united on basic principles of less government, less spending. youll see us stay unite thad we wont increase spending. the sequester has been one of the good things thats happened one of the few things weve done where weve actually controlled spending somewhat in this town. >> let me ask you two direct questions. if you say youre not willing to accept that, are you prepared to let this go past the deadline on thursday when the secretary of the treasu...

>> the offer that is there for speaker boehner is not ala-cart menu and you cant pick out concessions that the president made and not include concessions from the republican side. >> it looks like less than will you billion worth of reduction in well and that is over a decade. all of it coming not surprising from tax increases. >> well, some of the reaction to the presidents budget roll out. the presidents budget as it is written does increase spending as you look over the chart in the 10 years....

14% unsure. the next question about the sequester, specifically, has to do with cuts to increase in spending. negative impact. 45% positive. 27% no difference is 22%. bring in your panel. judge andrew napolitano, senior judicial analyst. juan williams, columnist with the hill. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. what about the change in tone? judge, how do you read all of this? as the president gets ready to meet with lawmakers at the white house. >> i think the facts caught up with the pr...

President travels and nothing new. and as of all of that, the travel, 120 miles from andrews air force base to newport news, virginia and the g.o.p. is making a point, saying the distance from the white house to capitol hill is just 2.8 miles and he could use a walking stick. chris stirewalt host of power play on foxnews.com live. its cheaper to do it that way. whats the point? whats the point, the president wants something the republicans are not going to give him. which are tax hikes in exchan...

>> when will the president get serious about cutting the debt? what will it take? >> mass i have inflation? >> i think it will take a change in incentive. for elected officials right now you think about would they want to cut spending or increase spending all of their incentives are on the side of increase spending. they have lobbying groups pushing for various pieces of spending. there needs to be something on the other side. >> everybody who comes to washington they arent saying cut spending. ...

Increased spending but get an inside look at that. on some of the increase spending is what we call tax expenditure, the tax credit that most republicans would support or have supported in 2001 before i got here. some of that spending is tax credits, expenditures. >> bret: the big number. understood. >> you got it. on the other side of the equation, the second point of the question is this. going forward we should not look at a packal which is what the senate spent to us that is going to do what...

Are putting over the economy with their refusal to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax relief unless they get their way on tax increases for small businesses. >> but hatch, to his credit, is not just complaining here. hes not just carping. hes proposed an actual alternative, the tax hike prevention act of 2012. hatchs plan would extend all of the bush tax cuts for another year. it would keep the alternative minimum tax from biting most minimum taxpayers, it would begin working on tax reform, butio know...

From becoming a depression, helping auto industry, making sure that not as many teachers were laid off, all those things added to the debt. but what my opponent didnt tell you was that federal spending since i took office has risen at the slowest pace of any president in almost 60 years. [cheers and applause] jon: lets talk about those claims with paul gigot. he is the editorial page editor of "the wall street journal" so what the president would have us belief he has done a great job i guess of...