Hillary Clinton's budget would actually work

[riversedge]

Most of the time it is really hard to find any article --for any candidate-about actual policies. Most just seems to cover the name calling.




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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[Kath1]

1. Hillary has real-world solutions to real world problems.

And that is very refreshing.

[Cha]

2. Of course it would.. Hillary doesn't mess around. She's there to get the job done.

Mahalo, rivers~

[Squinch]

3. She's a woman. Women and minorities don't get passes for throwing around policy bullshit the way

our white male candidates do.

If her budget didn't work, she would be excoriated and there would be a lot of sexism in comments sections of all the articles that excoriated her about women and money.

Meanwhile, Drumpf and BS put out absolutely ridiculous "plans" that would ruin all of us, and people ooh and aah.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. BINGO! ^^^This!^^^ eom

[SharonClark]

6. So true

[liberal N proud]

4. Once again - Reality and Math tell the story

Hillary Clinton is the right choice.