It's not the proposal about >$500K mortgage-interest deductions, nor cutting Pentagon spending, nor the 15 cents/gallon gas-tax increase.
Nope.
It's that the Commission uses the 2008 Fed spending plan as a base, not-to-be-reduced number. All the rest of the "cuts" are simply cuts from projected increases.
Ryan's right: it's a start. But not, by any means, a finish.
Wadding up this report and using it as ass wipe would be a "good start".
ReplyDeleteIt's useless.
Obama outta have his head examined for creating this side show.