Capitol Fax Quotes Barb Wheeler on Obama Speech

Barb Wheeler

Barb Wheeler

The current Republican legislator quoted most prominently by Rich Miller in his Capitol Fax was State Rep. Barb Wheeler.

What President Barack Obama said allowed Wheeler “to issue [a] statement like the one from GOP Rep. Barb Wheeler:

‘The President reiterated what the Governor and others have said before, without compromise we cannot govern.'”


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Capitol Fax Quotes Barb Wheeler on Obama Speech — 5 Comments

  1. ‘Compromise’ got us to where were we are today.

    “Compromise’ in D. C. gave us the current federal spending bills which grant EVERYTHING the usurper in D.C. asked for; including funding for his illegal deferred prosecution scams and Planned Parenthood!

    Compromise gave us the Patriot Act, NCLB and now E.S.S.A.
    Compromise gave us the State Constitution which guarantees a minimum increase of 3 percent per year in public sector pensions!

    For those who have daughters, when you were raising them, did you tell them to compromise when they say NO?

    Wake up folks!

    When a Democrat (includes Republicans who have liberal blood running through their veins) says we need to compromise, they are really saying:

    YOU MUST DO AS I SAY!

    I for one am fed up with the compromising of our Constitution!

  2. I am a liberal and don’t think compromise works, it only hurts the common people.

    Quinn raised Illinois taxes, Rauner lowered them.

    Now today on the radio they said we need higher taxes, taxes on retirement, and more taxes on food and medicine.

    No new taxes on millionaires and billionaires, but the people always get stuck with the bills that the so called experts agree on.

    Obama should be in Flint, Mi and not in Illinois.

    He went to the Detroit auto show but not to Flint.

  3. Cal: He / she was probably watching / listening to WTTW or PBS when they reported on what the Chicago Civic Federation published: https://www.civicfed.org/press-room/iifs/RoadmapFY2017RELEASE

    or for the full report, go to: https://www.civicfed.org/sites/default/files/ReportRoadmapFY2017.pdf

    I do not suggest going to WTTW for the story because this morning I get a message relative to someone / thing impersonating their website.

    Here is my Cliff Note:

    1. Limit Spending and Pay Down Bills:

    2. Revenue Cliff: The State should retroactively increase the income tax rate to 5.0% for individuals and 7.0% for corporations as of January 1, 2016

    3. Broaden the Income Tax Base to Include Some Retirement Income: .

    4. Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to Provide Assistance to Low Income Residents: increase in the State’s Earned Income Tax Credit from 10% of the federal credit to 15% of the federal amount.

    5. Expand the Sales Tax Base and Reduce the Retailer’s Discount: suspend its sales tax exemption for food and nonprescription drugs, enact a new general consumer services tax and cap reimbursement to retailers for collecting sales tax revenues.

    6. Establish Comprehensive Teachers’ Pension Funding Reform: The Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund and Teachers’ Retirement System should consolidate,

    7. Approve Constitutional Amendment Limiting Pension Protection Clause: approve a proposed amendment to the Illinois Constitution for the November 2016 statewide ballot specifying that the clause in the Illinois Constitution protecting public pension benefits applies only to accrued benefits.

    8. Make Supplemental Pension Payments:

    Charles Wheeler III from the Civic Federation has been advocating for tax increases as long as I have been following him. IMO the proverbial ‘they’ are ‘using’ gullible Republicans to push for the retirement tax.

    As a side note, there is a real problem with illegal aliens and Earned Income Tax Credits. There will be about two million tax returns in our country this year filed by illegal aliens claiming dependents living in foreign countries.

    General Accountability Office (GAO) estimates one-fourth of the annual $52 billion in earned income payments is fraudulent. The math here is pretty simple. One-fourth of $52 billion is $13 billion.

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