Debt Ceiling Ransom Letter

Have you seen the Republicans demands to fund the debt?  Talk about a handout to the rich and powerful.  They really are insane if they think they are going to get all of this.  

• One Year Debt Limit Increase
  • Not a dollar amount increase, but suspending the debt limit until the end of December 2014.
    
    • Similar to what was done earlier in the year.
      
  • Want the year long to align with the year delay of Obamacare.
    
• One Year Obamacare delay
• Tax Reform Instructions
  • Similar to a bill passed last fall, laying out broad Ryan Budget principles for what tax reform should look like.
    
  • Gives fast track authority for tax reform legislation
    
• Energy and regulatory reforms to promote economic growth
  • Includes pretty much every jobs bill passed this year and last Congress
    
  • All of these policies have important positive economic effects.
    
  • Energy provisions
    
    • Keystone Pipeline
      
    • Coal Ash regulations
      
    • Offshore drilling
      
    • Energy production on federal lands
      
    • EPA Carbon regulations
      
  • Regulatory reform
    
    • REINS Act
      
    • Regulatory process reform
      
    • Consent decree reform
      
    • Blocking Net Neutrality
      
• Mandatory Spending Reforms
  • Mostly from the sequester replacement bills passed last year
    
  • Federal Employee retirement reform
    
  • Ending the Dodd Frank bailout fund
    
  • Transitioning CFPB funding to Appropriations
    
  • Child Tax Credit Reform to prevent fraud
    
  • Repealing the Social Services Block grant
    
• Health Spending Reforms
  • Means testing Medicare
    
  • Repealing a Medicaid Provider tax gimmick
    
  • Tort reform
    
  • Altering Disproportion Share Hospitals
    
  • Repealing the Public Health trust Fund