SamuelRSmith said:
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I've said that on these forums before. Though the budget cuts need to be the bulk, and the tax increases should show shared sacrifice. It's bad policy to raise or cut taxes for any indivdual group of people.
The "broadening the base" that's often talked about but never proposed because it's political suicide.
Personally what i'd like to see is something like 5 to 3 to 2 cuts.
That is for every $5 of Republican picked cuts, there are $3 worth of Democratic cuts and $2 worth of tax increases.
That's really the annoying part of the whole debate. Democrats have shit they want to cut, they just for whatever reason aren't saying "hey lets cut this stuff." Likely due to purely political motivations.
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There are 3 reasons for this:
1) Many Democrats, including the President, simply do not believe/understand the financial crisis. If you're a suscribed Keynesian, which most politicians (on both sides of the isle) are, then, really, there is no argument for cuts.
2) Democrats, like all politicians, have one priority: getting re-elected, this usurps all other responsibilities. While Republicans, for the most part, are elected by those who favour smaller Government (although Republicans don't deliever on this promise, most voters don't look past the rhetoric), Democrats are not. This means that some Republicans will vote for cuts that they do not believe in (as pointed out in number 1), and some Democrats will vote against cuts that they do believe it.
3) Democrats and Republicans need to keep up an image of being different parties. They're not - on 90% of the policies, including all the most important, they are fundamentally the same . So they need to blow up that remaining 10% of difference to almost cartoonish levels. This means that the Republicans are the party of "cuts" (reducing the level of increase in the future...), and the Democrats are the party of "tax" (and with every new dollar collected in tax, a new loophole or subsidy put in...) - and they absolutely, 100%, can not stray from those positions.
I'm aware that you're probably away of these points, this post is more of a PSA, than anything else.
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