I’ll bet you $22 billion it doesn’t pass.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Around 5:30 pm eastern today, the U.S. Senate will hold a vote on invoking cloture on the motion to proceed to U.S. Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Pennies Plan balanced budget (S. 1332), which will put the Senate on record on reining in spending, ending skyrocketing deficits, and making better use of taxpayer resources.
“We teach our children that money doesn’t grow on trees, and then they grow up watching politicians pretend otherwise. Meanwhile, our debt soars past $22 trillion, endangers our country, and artificially limits what our nation can achieve. Today, the U.S. Senate can vote to put a stop to it and change course,” said Sen. Paul.
As spending and debt continue to skyrocket, Senator Paul’s budget simply states that for every on-budget dollar the federal government spent in Fiscal Year 2019, it spend two pennies fewer a year (a cut of two percent per year) for the next five years (at which point balance is reached – without touching Social Security). In the following five years after it balances, the proposal would result in a $913 billion surplus.
The Pennies Plan budget provides legislators with full flexibility to make the best decisions on where to cut, setting a goal of balance and then calling on Congress to use the tools provided to make the changes in law needed to achieve that objective.
The plan requires each committee with mandatory spending to be involved in the reconciliation process, as was the process’ original purpose. It also facilitates needed budget process reform, raising the waiver threshold for all budget points of order so the Senate is held to a higher standard and making the budget spending totals enforceable for 10 years instead of just one.
Senator Paul’s legislation also includes instructions that would help pave the way for making the middle-class tax cuts permanent and further expanding access to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
What’s a budget?
Dirty cunt still posting between johns. How does she find the time.
Fucking lying skank.
ah, the poison toad, leaves his filth. Go fuck yourself asshole, go hide behind your daddy admin….big pile of dog shit
At first I was angry with your trolling, I lost my temper and responded to your ugly posts with equally ugly posts. Now I only pity you. I pray you find some peace and happiness, this is no way to exist.
Ha! That’s a good one Rand.
Tell me about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny again.
I would be surprised if anybody but Rand votes for it.
They can’t pull back on spending or the whole Ponzi quickly unwinds. Everybody knows this.
Move along now… this kind of talk annoys the King of Debt .
I predict a few in favor (Massie and Rand for instance) with the rest voting “present” so as to not have to go on record against common sense.
I am NOT taking that bet. Cut spending? Congress as a whole? Balance the budget???
Sure, SOME in Congress would vote for Rand’s bill, but I have a feeling special interests & lobbyists will gum up the works to keep it from passing. There are too many in DC who WANT the USA to fail & be taken down.
I pray I am wrong & this passes. Maybe if we hit the White House with a lot of emails & make phone calls to our state Senators we might have a hope.
This site has an email link to contact the President. The link puts up an email format. Please be polite. 😉
https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/
I just sent Mr. T the following–
“Dear Mr. Trump. PLEASE talk publicly about Rand Paul’s penny budget plan! Please call for Congress to pass it! Make this go viral as much as you can Sir. Plus we out here in USA Land are begging you to NOT raise the debt ceiling & please cut spending!
Thank you Sir for your work towards securing our Southern border, another top priority.
I support you Mr. President & plan to vote for you again.”
Contact your Congress Critter–
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/
Going to contact my Senators now.
SamFox
No pork ?
I’ll see your $22b & raise you $22b that the big cheeto will veto even if they did pass it.
“cloture – The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes.”
https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/cloture.htm
Whatever. Will never happen. If it was introduced in the Senate, the house still has to vote and there are too many moving parts, too many greasers and scumbags and grifters to get in the way of actual progress.
Good idea, but there aren’t enough good people in Congress to get it done. They collectively prefer to slowly destroy America until it collapses overnight.
The only way the Senate will pass it is if they know the House won’t. The House will pass it if they know Trump won’t sign it. Trump will sign it if he knows the court will throw it out. It will never happen because the bezzle is just too damn good.
Wow an honest plan actually making an attempt to reduce spending , taxes and truly help the economic woes affecting the greatest portion of American citizenry .
Well the hell with that shit ….. so sayeth the pigs at the trough swilling on bankrupting the nation
Its a good plan, but it will never happened. That is, until the economy implodes.
How could it pass? All the compromised republicans who’ve either taken the money or ‘did the horrible things’ who answer to the establishment liberals (communists). Nothing good gets done in washington because washington is a machine fueled by greed and lust for power and lust for deviancy. And when a “stalwart”, who normally talks a pretty loud talk on conservative issues rolls over (trey gowdy) on a key issue, you know they too are compromised and that really, it is all theatre. Bread and circuses for us poor little fools.
Complete failure. Only 22 votes to even get it to a final vote. Spend until the End.
Sad that only a tiny few give a fuck.