Paul Waldman in the Washington Post has a nice article positing that the Democrats SHOULD negotiate with the Republicans on the debt limit, as follows:
Democrats are perfectly free to say the following: With their demand for across-the-board domestic spending reductions, Republicans are in effect proposing cuts to education, health care, …
Paul Waldman in the Washington Post has a nice article positing that the Democrats SHOULD negotiate with the Republicans on the debt limit, as follows:
Democrats are perfectly free to say the following: With their demand for across-the-board domestic spending reductions, Republicans are in effect proposing cuts to education, health care, economic development, clean energy, infrastructure, enforcement of environmental laws and a great deal more. So here are some of our demands:
• A significant tax increase on the wealthy
• An increase in the minimum wage, including indexing it to inflation
• A national paid family leave program
• A program to extend the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid to the states that have refused to accept it
• Universal pre-K
• A permanent expansion of the child tax credit
As Waldman said in his title, if the Republicans want to negotiate, bring it on.....
The whole point of Waldman's view (and others) is to force the Republicans to come up with the cuts they demand in exchange for not blowing up the US credit rating (and the world's economy). Make them own the savaging of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, or the elimination of popular government aid programs that benefit millions of citizens. So far, none of the "leaders" in the Freedom Caucus have been able to name any of the cuts they propose - and Waldman wants the Biden White House to let them twist slowly in the wind on this..... Works for me.
Paul Waldman in the Washington Post has a nice article positing that the Democrats SHOULD negotiate with the Republicans on the debt limit, as follows:
Democrats are perfectly free to say the following: With their demand for across-the-board domestic spending reductions, Republicans are in effect proposing cuts to education, health care, economic development, clean energy, infrastructure, enforcement of environmental laws and a great deal more. So here are some of our demands:
• A significant tax increase on the wealthy
• An increase in the minimum wage, including indexing it to inflation
• A national paid family leave program
• A program to extend the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid to the states that have refused to accept it
• Universal pre-K
• A permanent expansion of the child tax credit
As Waldman said in his title, if the Republicans want to negotiate, bring it on.....
That's good.
The whole point of Waldman's view (and others) is to force the Republicans to come up with the cuts they demand in exchange for not blowing up the US credit rating (and the world's economy). Make them own the savaging of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, or the elimination of popular government aid programs that benefit millions of citizens. So far, none of the "leaders" in the Freedom Caucus have been able to name any of the cuts they propose - and Waldman wants the Biden White House to let them twist slowly in the wind on this..... Works for me.