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Mitt Romney's voodoo spending cuts (how's 40% cuts to domestic programs sound?)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/30/mitt-romneys-voodoo-spending-cuts/
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Mitt Romney, interestingly, is an exception to this rule: Hes not offering huge tax cuts. Or, to be more precise, he is offering huge tax cuts but hes promising to pay for them by closing tax breaks and ending deductions. That is to say, hes at least admitting that tax cuts cost money and need to be paid for. Given that his various numbers dont add up, theres a bit of pixie dust there, but it is, rhetorically at least, a turn away from voodoo and towards responsibility.
More worrying is what we might call Romneys voodoo spending cuts: His promise that his promised spending cuts, despite being deeper than any in modern history, wont hurt anyone, anywhere, at any time, for any reason. In fact shades of supply-side economics here theyll probably make government services even better.
[font size="+1"]Lets start with the promises. Romney says hell cut federal spending to less than 20 percent of GDP by 2016, and hell do it without making cuts to Social Security or Medicare and while increasing spending on defense. To make that work, Romney will have to cut every other program in the federal budget education, infrastructure, food safety, R&D, tax collections, FEMA, Medicaid, food stamps, national parks, etc by 40 percent.[/font]
Those are massive, devastating cuts. But when you ask Romney to get specific, he talks about PBS and arts funding, as he did during the debates. And when Romney is left to his own devices, he doesnt admit the reality of cutting federal spending at all. He hides all of it in vague plans to hand control over to the states.
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those 40% cuts wouldalso be applied to the State Department - including funding for security for state department officials stationed around the World.
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Mitt Romney's voodoo spending cuts (how's 40% cuts to domestic programs sound?) (Original Post)
Bill USA
Oct 2012
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Dubster
(427 posts)1. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)2. The only 'entitlements' Rmoney recognizes as valid are tax cuts for Capital Gains and Estate taxes.
to THOSE he feels [font size="5"]ENTITLED[/font].