Blunt: Democrats' Budget Will Raise Taxes, Cost American Jobs

    WASHINGTON, March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- House Republican Whip
 Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement this morning subsequent to
 the release of the Democrats' budget blueprint for fiscal year 2008:
     "Democrats had an opportunity this year to deliver a budget to ensure
 taxes on working families remain low, domestic spending is kept in check,
 and the tide of runaway entitlement spending is stemmed before it plunges
 our country into economic insolvency.
     "What they came up with instead appears to be a ramshackle architecture
 of unsustainable spending, smoke-and-mirrors offsets, and irresponsible tax
 increases -- the costs of which will be measured in jobs lost, debt owed,
 and investment diverted.
     "As the Democrats' budget proposal makes its way to the floor of the
 House, be assured that Republicans will be there at every turn making the
 case for reining in reckless spending, reforming entitlements, and
 extending Republican tax relief that has created millions of new jobs and
 delivered the lowest national unemployment rate in a generation.
     "The budget is the most important statement of economic policy Congress
 produces. But in order for it to work effectively for American taxpayers,
 it must be fiscally sound, economically sustainable, and most important --
 grounded in real facts and accurate assumptions. The Democrats' budget
 doesn't meet any of these basic standards, and over the next several months
 our side will be working hard to do what we can to make it right."
 
 

SOURCE Office of the House Republican Whip Roy Blunt