NYT Reports That Senators Are Working On A Fiscal Cliff Deal — And Paul Krugman Is Already Furious

[kentuck]

64. The hard truth of the matter is that somebody has to bite the bullet...

We can have the wealthy, who have harvested the wealth of the last 3 decades contribute a little more, or we can have the poor and middle-class surrender some of their unearned assistance from the government? It should be an easy choice for the Democratic Party but it isn't. They are politically scared to death to raise taxes even a penny on anyone. They will probably hesitate about putting the paycheck tax back in effect? Which it should never have happened in the first place.

Sometimes our Party acts as if taxcuts are the solution to everything that ails this economy. It is sickening sometimes. On top of that, to even discuss cuts in Social Security and Medicare, while spending a trillion dollars a year on a defense budget and fighting wars that are not necessary to fight, should be an abomination against everything we believe as Democrats.

Maybe it is a losing argument for Democrats to argue differently?