House Democrats Change Rules to Make It Easier to Raise Taxes

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House Democrats Change Rules to Make It Easier to Raise Taxes
Incoming rules chair: Democrats won't require three-fifths supermajority to approve income tax increases

BY: Haris Alic   Follow @realHarisAlic
December 12, 2018 1:07 pm

Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has yet to take the speaker's gavel of the U.S. House of Representatives, but Democrats are already laboring to make it easier to dismantle the achievements of the Trump presidency.

The incoming chairman of the House Rules Committee, Rep. Jim McGovern (D., Mass.), confirmed to colleagues on Wednesday that he would not honor the three-fifths supermajority requirement to raise income taxes, as reported by the Washington Post.

McGovern's decision overturns a rule implemented under outgoing Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) that mandated a three-fifths majority approve any proposed hike to the income tax.

The change comes after a standoff between Pelosi and her moderate allies in the Democratic conference, such as incoming Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal (Mass.), and younger, more progressive members like Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.).

In November Pelosi and Neal initially proposed keeping the three-fifths supermajority rule for income tax increases "on the lowest-earning 80 percent of taxpayers." That notion, however, met stern opposition from Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives because it would severely constrain the ability of House Democrats to find new revenue sources to fund measures like universal health care and free college tuition.

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[bilo]

The incoming chairman of the House Rules Committee, Rep. Jim McGovern (D., Mass.), confirmed to colleagues on Wednesday that he would not honor the three-fifths supermajority requirement to raise income taxes, as reported by the Washington Post.

The Rat voters love tax increases. Anything that feeds the beast of a growing all powerful central govt. is a good thing!

[Frank Cannon]

Excellent. We only have 2 years to show that the Rats are destructive as all hell for the country. This will do most of the work for the feckless GOP.

[bilo]

Excellent. We only have 2 years to show that the Rats are destructive as all hell for the country. This will do most of the work for the feckless GOP.

Good points especially the last. The Pubs keep shooting themselves in the foot. You would think by now they would get behind Trump and push his agenda. They won't. They will cave.

[skeeter]

Excellent. We only have 2 years to show that the Rats are destructive as all hell for the country. This will do most of the work for the feckless GOP.

I dunno... I suspect we have finally reached the point where there're more takers than producers to whom the idea of raising taxes sounds pretty good.

[Hoodat]

I dunno... I suspect we have finally reached the point where there're more takers than producers to whom the idea of raising taxes sounds pretty good.

Yep.  They've accepted the role of Democrat-lite.  Their decision not to overturn Obamacare is proof of that.

[Free Vulcan]

Do the Dems think that just because they won the House that they are now the govt? They have one half of one branch. It's gonna be funny watching them slam into the Senate and veto wall again and again.