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Copying Clinton and Nixon, House Democrats Push Job-Killing Tax Increase

November 7, 2007

JEFFERSON CITY – Revealing yet again their eagerness to impose job-killing tax hikes on working families, House Democrats are falling in line behind the liberal leadership of Jay Nixon and Hillary Clinton by pushing a plan for more than $200 million in immediate new spending on the proven failure of Medicaid-style government health care.

The newest tax-and-spend plan from Democrats is based on the old-time liberal thinking of Nixon and Clinton, who are in position to head the party’s 2008 ticket in Missouri, as tax-and-spend twins. The House plan calls for a $218.5 million tax increase to return to an old Medicaid-type system, the failed system that Democrats used to run state finances into the ground.

The Democrat plan would be a down payment on the full Nixon/Clinton program for government-controlled health care. Nixon seeks a $1 billion hike in job-killing taxes for this promise while Clinton is pushing a $440 billion tax increase over four years for the federal version of government-control of health care.

In fixing the state budget ruined by past Democrat tax-and-spend liberalism, Gov. Matt Blunt has balanced the budget, increased spending for education by half a billion dollars and reduced taxes on seniors while creating MO HealthNet to improve service for low-income Missourians and setting a sound foundation for Insure Missouri, to provide health care coverage to 200,000 uninsured Missourians.

“Jay Nixon and every Missouri Democrat who is marching to the Nixon-Clinton drummer must explain to Missourians why they want a huge job-killing tax hike to begin turning back the clock to their own broken health care system, which was bankrupting Missouri. We are confident the people will vote strongly for the innovative, fiscally sound, and genuinely caring reforms made and proposed by Governor Blunt and the Legislature,” said Paul Sloca, communications director for the Missouri Republican Party. “This tax hike fever that has gripped Clinton, Nixon, and, now, the liberal Democrat leaders in the Legislature is a very clear picture of the choices that will be made in 2008. We look forward to this debate and we challenge Nixon and his followers to start explaining why Missourians aren’t paying high enough taxes and their case for the Clinton-Nixon policies of turning back the clock to constant Democrat whining for more taxes to feed a system that doesn’t work."