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ONTARIO — A $5 public safety fee will be making its way back to the city of Ontario’s utility bills in July, with two of the three city councilors who ....
As they try to reach out for health care insurance in the new market we re creating so i tend to agree with you on that. i just wish you d keep up with the budget committee hearings. so what specifically in the acha, what part of the tax cuts would you like to repeal? there s the tax cut on dividends and investment on households over $250,000. that s a small percentage of the total $800 billion figure, right? it s actually with all of the tax cuts it s about $250. that doesn t include tax penalties we re getting rid of for people who simply are right now paying the tax penalty because they don t want to buy the obamacare policies. that mandate is gone but you still have several hundred billion dollars of other tax cuts in that bill that i think need to be retooled to assure that first and foremost we re not leaving any families in the lurch as we shift from ....
Said over the last ten years. what s the justification for that. chris, you may have missed the budget hearing today where i carried an amendment that got bipartisan approval, not an amendment but a motion requesting the rules committee to look at that. i don t think it is defensible or sustainable for us to be giving massive tax cuts to investors while we have not assured that the tax system is supporting low-income families as they try to reach out for health care insurance in the new market we re creating so i tend to agree with you on that. i just wish you d keep up with the budget committee hearings. so what specifically in the acha, what part of the tax cuts would you like to repeal? there s the tax cut on dividends and investment on households over $250,000. that s a small percentage of the total $800 billion figure, right? it s actually with all of the tax cuts it s about $250. ....
That was hold over from november. but, you know, in some sense it s really kind of ironic, rather funny, that, you know, the chairman is sounding a little bit like president obama whining about george bush, but the difference is that unlike president obama reince priebus was at the table with me, my general counsel and he counseled me to take out that line, that $15 million line of credit that s hocked up to the gills, and, you know, supported that effort. he voted for it as a member. i m on record, in fact, at the budget committee hearings saying i did not want to take out this line of credit, not to $15 million. i thought $5 million was sufficient but it is what it is. we took the money, we spent the money and we won elections. gee, imagine that. we actually spent the money to win. prior chairmen have spent $10 million of debt, created tens of millions of debt and lost, so i think the money was well invested. the party wanted the money invested, and we now move ....