Steve Dennis, White House Correspondent for Roll Call and the owner of some cool sunglasses, tweeted this about the budget talks between Democrats and GOP.
Budget talks in short:
Administration to GOP: You first.
GOP to admin: Show us the cuts. And no tax hikes. Thanks.
He’s right.
What does this show? Two things:
First, our political leaders wait for the other side to make a move then they react. Why? They have no policy ideas – only ideology which leads to …
Second, no politician is willing to make a move since it will piss off the billionaire benefactors (my spell-check kept coming up “BRIBERS”) who are funding their campaigns and the conflicting, corrupt policies from both political parties.
Reality check is this. We need:
- Tax reform first and foremost; get rid of silly deductions that do nothing but skew any kind of free market and give the wealthy extra advantage
- Increased tax revenue; doesn’t mean a higher tax rate if we wipe out the deductions, but clearly we are not bringing in enough money to the federal government because which leads to…
- Decrease in spending for long-term entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security
- Increase in short-term spending to boost infrastructure and training so we look like a 21st Century country.
Bottom line, folks, we cannot spend, tax, or cut our way out of this. We need to do all 3.
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