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The failure of the Super Committee

rocket88

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A couple of thoughts occured to me about the super committee.

a) Democrats don't want to cut anything

b) Of course they failed, that's exactly what the Tea Party wanted to happen.

c) It seems that Congress is getting ready to take back some of the big cuts. Finally, bipartisanship!

d) In order to save the rich from having their taxes raised, the GOP has set up a situation where everybody's taxes will be raised.
 
The committee was doomed from the start because there never really was any significant reason for either side to come to the table with anything other than demands. I'm no fan of compromise, but even I could see that this was going to fail even before they met for the first time.

Neither side is going to win the Public Relations battle on this either. They're both going to point fingers and the real losers will be the American Taxpayers.
 
They never wanted to make any significant cuts. To do so would have angered some of their campaign contributors.
 
As said, neither party wanted to accept the public outrage for program cuts and raising taxes.
So they let the automatic cuts and tax increases happen.

It was a foregone conclusion.
 
rocket88 said:
A couple of thoughts occured to me about the super committee.

a) Democrats don't want to cut anything

b) Of course they failed, that's exactly what the Tea Party wanted to happen.

c) It seems that Congress is getting ready to take back some of the big cuts. Finally, bipartisanship!

d) In order to save the rich from having their taxes raised, the GOP has set up a situation where everybody's taxes will be raised.
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If the government would stop killing jobs, the revenue problem would be solved.
 
apdst said:
If the government would stop killing jobs, the revenue problem would be solved.
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At least until Republicans realized that and cut taxes until we were deficit spending again.
 
Thunder said:
Obama and the Democrats agreed to around $3 trillion in cuts, several months ago.
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Where? Both parties seem to want cuts, it's where those cuts should be made is the main debate.
 
Thunder said:
I believe, and I will look into this, that the cuts were going to be in entitlements and other spending.
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Go ahead and look. Report back when you don't find anything.
 
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