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In reply to the discussion: Criticize the President? We should not even be having serious conversations about this. [View all]Jasana
(490 posts)as a retired accountant, this CCPI looks like a shit sandwich so anybody who proposes it should be criticized. And by the way, this bears repeating... SS has nothing to do with the deficit. Even Saint Ronnie knew that.
We need jobs. Jobs with decent wages. That will help with payroll taxes (which never should have been cut so low for so long to begin with.) Capital gains taxes. A financial transaction tax. Glass-Steagall put back in place. Medicare needs to be able to negotiate drug prices. This is just some basic common sense stuff I'm throwing out here.
It seems we are stuck with a bunch of Repubs who would rather tear the whole country down than see PBO succeed at anything. I feel for him but proposing CCPI does not make him look good. It does not make the democrats as a whole look good.