Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) says that, as long as Democrats don’t screw it up too much, the tax cut compromise plan set to work its way through Congress this week is the best law that the federal government has enacted since President Obama took office.
“We have a Democratic Congress that doesn’t leave office until January 5, taxes are set to go up on January 1 without this agreement, and once Washington raises taxes, it almost never cuts them,” Jindal told the National Review. “If we can get this through the Democratic Congress, even with its flaws, it will be the best legislation they’ve passed in two years,”
Like just about everyone else who’s seen it — including Obama himself — Jindal takes issue with some parts of the compromise. Still, the not-running-for-president-just-ask-him Gov. of Louisana seems to have a higher opinion of the compromise, which would add more than $900 billion to the deficit, than Obama’s critics on the left do.
“This isn’t a perfect deal and it’s not what I would have written, but after what we have seen the past two years with more government and more taxes, this deal is a big relief in the nick of time,” Jindal said.
In the end, Jindal says the deal ls about as good as Republicans could hope for before they take over the House next year.
“[L]et’s be honest, it took a whipping at the polls to drag President Obama to stop a tax increase,” Jindal said. “American voters should congratulate themselves.”
