This is yet another reminder that Republicans DONT CARE about the national DEBT. Conservative carping about the debt is 100% of the time a RHETORICAL cudgel deployed with utter cynicism AGAINST programs they DISLIKE for other reasons. When the topic is food stamps or unemployment insurance, they demand offsets to pay for them. (Because were broke, as Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it in a similar context.) But when it comes to dropping planeloads of money on CORPORATIONS and RICH people, Republicans will casually blow a HALF-TRILLION hole in the 10-year budget without blinking. If they win in 2016, they will do like Bush did.... take all of those deficit reduction savings and hand them over to the RICH. BUT, Republicans are now firmly committed to the idea that POOR people dont pay ENOUGH in taxes. Their next target is to reduce or eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit, the one thing that did so much to help the WORKING POOR to pull themselves from poverty. theweek/article/index/272922/the-republican-partys-top-priority-is-to-raise-taxes-on-the-poor-literally
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:20:32 +0000
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