Thread: Boxer: "Poison Pill" In GOP Payroll Tax Bill "Will Kill 8,100" People For Christmas

[QUOTE=Forplay;2013575]Is this loon for real,

"They have attached a poison pill -- literally, colleagues -- because it will kill 8,100 more people more than would have otherwise been killed from pollution," Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Cali.) said on the Senate floor today about Republicans trying to roll back a Clean Air Act provision.

Republicans included a measure to kill an EPA regulation in their payroll tax cut proposal.

"So have that for a Christmas gift," Boxer said after she scared people with the 8,100 number.

Boxer: "Poison Pill" In GOP Payroll Tax Bill "Will Kill 8,100" People For Christmas | RealClearPolitics


What exactly was the regulation the pubs wanted killed. You would think the link would have detailed it, so we could see what it was.

Was it one of those regs that special interests lobbied to kill? How important is this regulation, and does it destroy a lot of jobs? Or does it just make the bottom line of a few a less bit fat?

So odd that each time anyone mentions a regulation, they never tell you exactly what it is, and who it would affect. Makes me real suspicious. When you don't tell the rest of the story. That is propaganda, ain't it? That most of us view as the news.

And it's keeping the rules as they are now... not rolling anything back.

Boxer is a loon...

Probably couldn't figure out a way to divert any money from this to her husband thus it is bad in her eyes.

Originally Posted by tsquare

And it's keeping the rules as they are now... not rolling anything back.

Boxer is a loon...

No, it isn't.

And no, she isn't.

Republicans added a provision in the bill that would delay the regulating of industrial boilers, known to emit 20 different known carcinogens.

http://docs.nrdc.org/air/files/air_11092801a.pdf#page=5

Democrats have all the best solutions overall.

They want stuff like this kept in check so that there are even fewer people who get sick.

Republicans hate the idea of gov't-run health care because they feel that they shouldn't have to pay for the lazy bum down the street who put off getting insurance but now has a pre-existing condition in the respiratory illness he's got from living in an apartment building with an out-of-date boiler that's helping to make the building sick.

Replacing the old ones would create jobs.

And keep people healthy, which saves all of us money.

Of course Republicans are delaying it. That's just how stupid that party is these days.

What else?

Republicans hate poor people. They also don't fancy illegal immigrants, lawful immigrants, gays, women, blacks, the latino vote, etc.

The Democrat answer?

Abortion!!

We'll kill ourselves!

That means less poor people, which means LESS Democratic voters.

Of course, Republicans don't like abortion. They get really sentimental about it because yeah, the idea of it is pretty gross.

Can't have anything to do with morality though, since Republicans are for the death penalty.

But of course they're against euthanasia for people who wish to end their lives, which must cost Republicans money by the end of their lives.

Republicanism is the art of acting out a total hypocrisy.

Meanwhile, Democrats are basically saying, "We'll kill ourselves so that there's fewer of us" and Republicans keep having a partisan, knee-jerk reaction instead of actually stopping and thinking for a minute.

Originally Posted by Jason Marcel

No, it isn't.

And no, she isn't.

Republicans added a provision in the bill that would delay the regulating of industrial boilers, known to emit 20 different known carcinogens.

http://docs.nrdc.org/air/files/air_11092801a.pdf#page=5

Democrats have all the best solutions overall.

They want stuff like this kept in check so that there are even fewer people who get sick.

Republicans hate the idea of gov't-run health care because they feel that they shouldn't have to pay for the lazy bum down the street who put off getting insurance but now has a pre-existing condition in the respiratory illness he's got from living in an apartment building with an out-of-date boiler that's helping to make the building sick.

Replacing the old ones would create jobs.

And keep people healthy, which saves all of us money.

Of course Republicans are delaying it. That's just how stupid that party is these days.

What else?

Republicans hate poor people. They also don't fancy illegal immigrants, lawful immigrants, gays, women, blacks, the latino vote, etc.

The Democrat answer?

Abortion!!

We'll kill ourselves!

That means less poor people, which means LESS Democratic voters.

Of course, Republicans don't like abortion. They get really sentimental about it because yeah, the idea of it is pretty gross.

Can't have anything to do with morality though, since Republicans are for the death penalty.

But of course they're against euthanasia for people who wish to end their lives, which must cost Republicans money by the end of their lives.

Republicanism is the art of acting out a total hypocrisy.

Meanwhile, Democrats are basically saying, "We'll kill ourselves so that there's fewer of us" and Republicans keep having a partisan, knee-jerk reaction instead of actually stopping and thinking for a minute.

Lets do away with cars, plains, trains, trucks, booze, cigarettes, doctors, hell anything or any group that ever killed a person. We'll have a healthy nation with no one working.

Originally Posted by Forplay

Lets do away with cars, plains, trains, trucks, booze, cigarettes, doctors, hell anything or any group that ever killed a person. We'll have a healthy nation with no one working.

Don't forget dust, bug spray, the sun, water, hair spray, and cell phones.