2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Admit it - many of you are just as guilty as Obama... [View all]Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)(1) Increased taxes don't hit all at once, but over the year. This means that legislation can be passed to fix problems faced by the middle class and poor that are not linked with wealth tax cuts.
(2) Cuts to programs also do no happen instantly, and they can be fixed.
(3) Programs like food stamps and unemployment are among the ones that will be hit on day one, but Republicans don't seem itching to fix these.
(4) Cuts to Social Security and Medicare negotiated away to pay for tax cuts for some of the wealthy are a real disaster that takes money from the most vulnerable and gives it as welfare to people make more than $250,000.00 a year. Giving wealthy to the effluent of the affluent is a monstrous failure in civics.
If Republicans won't deal without hurting the poor, veterans, unemployed, and middle class so their wealthy donor base doesn't have to give up a few tins caviar that is a monstrous failure of civics. The problems with taxes and programs can be fixed within the first hundred days.
If they won't act responsibly now, lets see what the next Congress will do? We do not need to disassemble the social safety net.