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CSM: Hillary Clinton's budget would actually work
Hillary Clinton's budget would actually work
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2016/0507/Hillary-Clinton-s-budget-would-actually-work?cmpid=TW
You don’t have to like the new government programs she’s proposing, and you don’t have to like how she’d pay for it. But in an election season when other candidates think nothing of adding trillions of dollars to the debt, Clinton’s agenda seems almost frugal.
By Howard Gleckman,
May 7, 2016
The folks over at the Committee for A Responsible Federal Budget have added up the cost of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s policy platform and how she’d finance it. And, lo and behold, it looks like she’d actually pay for nearly all she wants to do. In contemporary American politics, this is nothing short of amazing.
You don’t have to like the new government programs she’s proposing (a collection of new spending and tax credits aimed at addressing a long list of kitchen table issues). And you don’t have to like how she’d pay for it all (almost entirely by raising taxes on high-income households and businesses). You might be discouraged at her lack of interest in tax reform. And you might wish that she’d acknowledge the need to reduce the federal debt, not just stabilize it.
Still, in an election season when other candidates think nothing of adding trillions of dollars to the debt, Clinton’s agenda seems…almost frugal.............................
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She consulted with experts to tinker with her goals to make them doable before she proposed them to the public. She has always wanted to be able to deliver on her promises. The other thing she has going for her proposals is a broad coalition of support in Congress and across many states. Sadly, some of those regressive red ones are pretty stubborn, but if anyone can figure out how to start putting dents in their armor of archaic resistance--Hillary Clinton can.
