As for the problem Sessions didn’t mention in his statement yesterday, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) comes out of the bullpen to bat cleanup, and tell us about all the wonderful pork-barrel spending greedy senators stuffed into this “comprehensive immigration reform” package: “Immigration reform is a nationwide challenge, and immigration reform should promote the national interest – not the special interest of individual Senators or any region or state or lobbying group. “Supporters of the underlying bill continue to argue that this legislation will actually reduce the federal deficit. It’s a bizarre situation where you can spend almost $50 billion and claim that it actually reduces the deficit, but that’s the argument. “And yet, as I explained on Monday, the only way you can transform this bill into a deficit reduction bill is by double-counting more than $211 billion worth of Social Security revenue. In other words, the money paid in, in terms of Social Security taxes, is eventually going to have to be paid out in benefits. “And you can’t say you’ll pay it out in benefits and then you’ll also use that surplus to fund the underlying bill, because that’s double counting. But only in Washington can you get away with such magical accounting techniques. “You’re left with a bill that’s chock full of de facto earmarks, pork-barrel spending and special interest sweeteners, a bill that increase the on-budget deficit, but fails to guarantee a border that’s secure and offers only promises, which historically Congress has been very, very, very, very bad about keeping.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:17:14 +0000
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