Legal Commentary

The Roadmap

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Meteor Blades, Andrew Whitehead of EPI critiques The Roadmap of Republican Paul Ryan:

The Roadmap would place the entire burden of deficit reduction on spending cuts. "The hefty tax hikes on the middle class included in the plan do not go toward deficit reduction. Nor does the Roadmap’s overall revenue plan improve the long-term fiscal outlook. The plan actually reduces federal revenue relative to either current law or current policy."

So here's my question, in light of The Deal, what is the Democratic alternative? And I do not mean a "wish list" alternative, but one the President and Dems are willing to fight for. After The Deal, are we to really expect that Dems will not capitulate? After The Deal, the threat of government shutdowns and debt ceilings won't have the Dems telling us that agreeing to 98% of the GOP agenda on taxes and spending was not "the best they could do?"

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).