Reply #50: Balancing The Budget Is A Repuke Goal? [View All]

[ProfessorGAC]

Since when? The repubs don't want a balanced budget. They never really have, their empty rhetoric notwithstanding.

In reality, running on a budget that requires revenue to match outlays is a winning political issue, if only Dem politicians would properly frame the debate. The first step is to call a spade a spade and run against the ruinous spending policies of the Repubs.

As one who does not believe (since there is no econometric data to support it) that small manipulations in the marginal tax rates affect the economy to any significant and sustainable degree, i think the goal ought to be to tell people that taxes need to be put back where they were because if we don't the Repubs will bankrupt the nation.

That might be a bit of hyperbole, but it's closer to the truth than the outright lies the Repubs have been telling about taxes and balanced budgets for the last 30 years.

So, i guess i'd dispute your "real reason" argument, since the argument you say they're avoiding is a valid one.
The Professor