Robert Reich: The Republican Plan with Lipstick

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The Republican Plan with Lipstick

Republicans figure that if they can’t sell the pig, they’ll just put lipstick on it and find some suckers who will think it’s something else.

That’s the proposal emerging in the Senate from Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee and also Democrat Claire McCaskill of Missouri. It would get the deficit down not by raising taxes on the rich but by capping federal spending.

If Congress failed to stay under the cap, the budget would be automatically cut.

According to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the McCaskill/Corker plan would require $800 billion of cuts in 2022 alone. That’s the equivalent of eliminating Medicare entirely, or the entire Department of Defense.

Obviously the Defense Department wouldn’t disappear, so what would go? Giant cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, education, and much of everything else Americans depend on.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. What a BRILLIANT idea!

Somehow I feel as though they're behaving like kids in school who figure out how to cheat on a test. It's easier to learn the material so you can do well, but no, they put their efforts into cheating.

The Republican plan to put a cap on spending is the same old convoluted method.

Give it a rest, you idiots!

Just raise taxes on the rich, and we will be in a much better place.

:mad:

[hulka38]

2. It's not just Republicans.

The Democratic Party leadership is playing a lesser role but an important one of enabler as it did with the Iraq War.

[TheKentuckian]

3. If it was just the TeaPubliKlans then it would be DOA and a non-subject.

The circle D, Turd Wayers are deep in this too.