The 74-page budget deal, which passed yesterday, included within it, a clause which would result in a “Super Congress” that can and will, by itself, propose “spending cuts” (Check out Ron Paul’s article on why these aren’t really spending cuts: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/174717-when-a-cut-is-not-a-cut) and tax increases without any debate in either house of Congress. By passing the Budget Control Act of 2011, Congress delegated it’s Constitutional authority over spending to an unelected group of 12 members. Under the legislation, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell will each get to select 3 members to place on the super committee.
The Unconstitutional committee will create a package of baseline spending cuts, which are actually spending increases, and tax hikes. Congress will then be forced to vote on this package without any debate, without any amendments, and without any input into the matter. This means that if your Senator or Congressman isn’t in the 12 member Super Committee, you will have no representation in Congress as far as spending cuts and tax hikes go. 94% of the Senate and 98% of the Congress will have no say on what is cut and what isn’t cut. The same percentage will have no say on whether taxes are increased or not either. If for some reason, this committee cannot cut $1.5 trillion in future deficits in a 10 year period, automatic tax increases will be triggered.
No where in the Constitution does it state that unlimited power can be granted to 12 politicians, while everyone else is a second-class citizen.
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal stated,
The White House says nothing in the law prevents the committee from raising taxes, and Republican leaders say the details of the law block Democrats from counting an expiration of the Bush tax cuts for upper-income Americans towards the deficit-reduction goal.
It’s a reminder that the bipartisan push to pass the legislation before the Treasury ran out of cash didn’t settle the big differences Republicans and Democrats, particularly on taxes.
While Republicans are promising their constituents that there will be no tax hikes, Democrats are promising their constituents the exact opposite.
This ploy fabricated by the most corrupt and power hungry members of Congress is nothing more than political theater. Whether this Congress votes for the phony spending cuts or not, one Congress cannot bind another future Congress to spending cuts.
Jack Hunter’s article at the DailyCaller gives a great explanation as to why we don’t need an unelected Super Congress usurping our right to representation: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/03/we-dont-need-a-super-congress/
