Tea Party Groups Push GOP On Taxes
Finance Friday, November 18th, 2011
By Kevin Bohn, WLKY.com
(CNN) — Several tea party-aligned groups are pushing Republican members of Congress not to support tax increases as a congressional super committee tries to come up with a proposal to cut at least $1.2 billion from the nation’s debt.
Republicans serving on the committee that is charged with cutting $1.2 trillion in federal spending over 10 years have proposed hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes balanced against a reduction in tax rates and tax reform.
Americans for Prosperity is pushing 40 House Republicans who have previously indicated a willingness to support new taxes to reverse course and is going up with a $50,000 radio ad campaign on Thursday targeting five House Republicans who serve on the Appropriations Committee. The ad says in part the members “recently joined 40 Republicans and 60 Democrats signing a letter asking the congressional super committee to consider ‘all options for mandatory and discretionary spending and revenues.’ Americans for Prosperity is concerned that this could make higher taxes. And, tax increases would be disastrous.”
The ad is airing in the districts of Reps. Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri; Charles Dent of Pennsylvania; Frank Wolf of Virginia; Steve LaTourette of Ohio; and Ander Crenshaw of Florida.
Wolf’s spokesman Daniel Scandling said in reaction “Congressman Wolf does not support raising taxes. He does support closing loopholes and ending the practice of tax earmarks” and said Wolf “has been talking about putting everything on the table for almost six years.” Emerson’s chief of staff Jeffrey Connor told CNN in reaction to the ad: “Revenues are not necessarily taxes – revenue includes things like expanding offshore oil leases and selling unneeded federal lands, eliminating fraud in the Additional Child Tax Credit and bringing U.S. corporate revenues back to American shores.”
The offices of Dent, LaTourette and Crenshaw did not respond to requests for comment.
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