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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (40956)2/5/2010 12:59:45 AM
From: TimF2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
So... there is no 'law' (in the PAYGO budget rules, or the the voted down Deficit Commission, or in the deficit Commission the President will create by executive order) *mandating* tax increases.

Mandating tax increases is a strawman. I never said any such thing. Biased towards tax increases, not mandating tax increases.

I mean, are you complaining about food stamps and unemployment insurance payments during the worst economic string of successive bad quarters since the Great Depression?

Not that there isn't plenty to complain about, in terms of all the money the Feds are spending now, but there was no such complaint in my post. It was a complaint about how planned spending increases and tax increases are treated by the proposed paygo rules.

Which, by the way, are going officially 'on budget' for the first time since the wars started

There where budgeted items before, counted in the deficit and debt figures for each current and past year. The fact that they where in a separate budget from the normal defense budget is meaningless in terms of increasing spending or in terms of providing a proper account for the spending. The spending wasn't more because it was put somewhere else, and it was properly accounted for.
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