The Right Wing Obviously Doesn’t Give A Shit About The Deficit

On 7/14/2010 1:50 PM, Kickin’ A&*$?%s and Takin’ Names wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:11:48 -0400, H&*$?%e
> wrote:
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>> http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/conservatives-dont-care-about-the-deficit-4/
>>
>> July 14th, 2010
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>> Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit
>>
>> …………………………………………………………………………………………
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>> It’s the persistent refusal of the journalistic class to internalize
>> the fact that the conservative movement in America doesn’t care about
>> the budget deficit.
>>
>> It’s not that they sometimes care more about other things.
>>
>> Or that they care less than they should.
>>
>> Or that they’re hypocrites on occasion.
>>
>> It’s that they don’t care about it at all.
>>
>> Not even a little.
>>
>> Indeed, they’re opposed in principle to deficit reduction.
>>
>> The conservative movement has more record of boosting foreign aid to
>> sub-Saharan Africa than it does to deficit reduction.
>>
>> …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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>> To recap the key points:
>>
>> 1) There have been two presidents who were members of the modern
>> conservative movement, Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, and they both
>> presided over massive increases in both present and projected
>> deficits.
>>
>> 2) The major deficit reduction packages of the modern era, in 1990 and
>> 1993, were both uniformly opposed by the conservative movement.
>>
>> 3) When the deficit was temporarily eliminated in the late-1990s, the
>> mainstream conservative view was that this showed that the deficit was
>> too low and needed to be increased via large tax cuts.
>>
>> 4) Senator Mitch McConnell says it’s a uniform view in his caucus that
>> tax cuts needn’t be offset by other changes in spending.
>>
>> 5) The deficit reduction commission is having trouble because they
>> think conservative politicians won’t vote for any form of tax
>> increase.
>> http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/07/debt-commission-eying-mostly-cuts-package/
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>> In sum, there are zero historical examples of conservatives mobilizing
>> to make the deficit smaller.
>>
>> What is true is that most conservatives oppose increases in
>> non-military spending when those increases are proposed by Democratic
>> presidents.
>>
>> A minority of conservatives are more consistent opponents of increases
>> in non-military spending.
>>
>> But the key element of conservative fiscal policy is that tax revenue
>> as a percent of GDP should be made as low as possible.
>>
>> This isn’t a goal they pursue that stands in some kind of balance with
>> concern about the deficit, it’s the only goal they pursue.
>>
>> You can like that or not, but every single journalist who writes
>> articles about the deficit debate that doesn’t highlight the
>> conservative movement’s deep, decades-long hostility to deficit
>> reduction is being grossly irresponsible.
>>
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>>
>> Harry
>
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> “Deficits don’t matter,” D&*$?%k Cheney.

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