My Four Point Deficit Reduction Planby: Dean BarkerThu Nov 11, 2010 at 09:31:19 AM EST |
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Since I have about as much real power as the unelected Catfood Co-Chairs have, I humbly offer my four point deficit reduction plan:
1) Tax the uber-wealthy at the rates they were taxed when 20th century American prosperity was at its height. 2) Jobs = Revenue: Do what's necessary to keep people from suffering and encourage prosperity - jobless benefits, lowering the Social Security age, food stamps, a zero tolerance policy for banksters and fraudclosurists. 3) A public option. (Here the catfood co-chairs and I agree.) 4) Refrain from fighting uneccesary wars, and require that we pay for necessary ones. Adding: This comment from an anonymous CoS to a Dem Senator pretty much says it all: There is a prevailing view among many people that both parties are dominated by the rich, and that voting doesn't really make a difference. If we want low and middle-income Americans to think we don't have the spine to fight for them, then how are we going to convince them to vote for us? If David Axelrod has an answer for that, I'd like to know what it is.I think political activists tend to forget how dominant this view is. I know a thing or two about it - I was raised in just such a household. When you don't define your differences, Americans by and large are happy to wish a pox on both houses. |