Monday, February 25, 2013

Well, of course, he sez that; he's just doing his masters' bidding


Walker Says Entitlements Should Be Cut to Reduce Deficit.  (Bloomberg, 2/22/2013)

Achieving Further Deficit Reduction Solely Through Spending Cuts Entails Cutting Entitlements That Benefit the Poor and Middle Class While Shielding the Biggest Entitlements for the Wealthy.  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1/9/2013)

Excerpt:     Republicans say that from here on, we should do only spending cuts, focusing on entitlement programs. But their approach to entitlements is highly selective — they seek to cut the entitlement programs on the spending side of the budget, whose benefits go overwhelmingly to middle-class and poor families. But they want no deficit reduction to come from the most wasteful and inefficient of entitlements — those embedded in the tax code


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