After ramming through their job-killing healthcare bill – which hit small businesses with over $500 billion in new taxes – President Barack Obama and liberal United States Senator Bill Nelson are heading to Florida Atlantic University where they will tell small business owners that in Washington they are again working to raise their taxes.
These additional dollars that Obama and Nelson are advocating for would be used to fund their big government policies, like their failed $825 billion stimulus – which was supposed to ‘create or save’ 206,000 jobs in the Sunshine State – and their $1.76 trillion job-killing healthcare bill.
Notably, asking Floridians to pay higher taxes is nothing new for Nelson because during his career in the Senate, he has voted over 150 times in favor of higher taxes.
“Bill Nelson has voted over 150 times in favor of higher taxes and once again he’s asking Florida’s job creators to bankroll his reckless spending habits,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox. “If President Obama and liberal U.S. Senator Nelson feel an overriding sense of guilt about their binge spending record in Washington – which includes a failed stimulus and a costly government-run healthcare law – then they ought to send a personal check to the IRS.”
BACKGROUND …
Bill Nelson Has Voted Over 150 Times In The Senate For Higher Taxes
Since Coming To The Senate In 2001, Bill Nelson Has Voted At Least 150 Times In Favor Of Higher Taxes. (Congressional Quarterly Vote Study Compiled June, 2011)
To Fund Projects Like His Failed $825 Billion Stimulus & His Job-Killing Healthcare Bill
Nelson Voted For The “Stimulus” Bill. (H.R. 1, CQ Vote #64: Adopted 60-38; R 3-38; D 55-0; I 2-0, 2/13/09, Nelson Voted Yea)
- Nelson Predicted The Stimulus Jobs Would ‘Create Or Save’ 206,000 Jobs. “He said the package is expected to restore 206,000 of the 255,000 jobs lost in Florida so far in the economic crisis, within one-and-a-half years.” (Deborah Buckhalter, “Sen. Nelson Speaks To Stimulus,” Jackson County Floridan, 2/19/09)
Nelson Voted To Pass The Health Care Reconciliation Bill. (H.R. 4872, CQ Vote #105: Passed 56-43: R 0-40; D 54-3; I 2-0, 3/25/10, Nelson Voted Yea)
- According To The Congressional Budget Office, ObamaCare Raised Taxes By $525 Billion. “All told, those provisions of PPACA and the Reconciliation Act were estimated to increase direct spending by $401 billion and to increase revenues by $525 billion over the 2010–2019 period, yielding the net estimated savings of $124 billion over those 10 years (as noted above).” (“Analysis Of The Major Health Care Legislation Enacted In March 2010,” Congressional Budget Office, 3/30/11)
