Tales From the Supercommittee
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It’s hard to believe the unabashed disdain and disregard of Republicans at a time when the Occupy protests are spreading around the country and world. For Democrats, 2012 should be theirs to lose. (Don’t put it past them.)
But it already seems clear that nothing is more important to them than protecting corporations and the wealthy from tax increases: not the Pentagon, not homeland security, not education, and not the country’s economic health.
And always the veil of lies and junk accounting:
In contrast, Republicans say they are willing to cut $2.2 trillion from the deficit, but only about $40 billion of that would be from new revenues. None would be from new taxes. (Republicans are actually proposing to lower overall tax rates, paid for by ending some tax loopholes. They say that that would produce $200 billion in new tax revenues, based on the discredited notion that the government can then count on higher revenues from increased growth. No impartial judge, including the Congressional Budget Office, accepts this kind of estimate.)
