How Republican Tax Intransigence Sank The Super Committee: A Timeline<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur guest blogger is Sarah Ayres, a research associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. By now we have all heard the latest in the months-long debate over reducing the nation\u2019s deficit…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A nice timeline of the 2010-2011 budget follies, including the various Grand Suggestions from the Super-Committee. Bottom line (albeit from my PoV), the Dems were more than willing (overly so, in fact) to offer substantial spending cuts, in exchange for modest tax increases. The GOP members were only willing to discuss spending cuts. Not surprising … Continue reading “When you have only one absolutist position, it's hard to negotiate”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25771,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/doing-the-math-on-military-budget-cuts.html","url_meta":{"origin":23953,"position":0},"title":"Doing the math on military budget cuts","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Jan-12 4:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As noted below, it's near-useless to bandy about simple amounts of proposed defense cuts without putting them in perspective -- unless you're trying to frighten people with the \"billions and billions\" on the chopping block.In other words, $487 billion sounds like a lot (which it is), until you realize it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26452,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/speaking-honestly-and-forthrightly.html","url_meta":{"origin":23953,"position":1},"title":"Speaking honestly and forthrightly on budget and taxes","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Feb-12 11:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Though the attached article notes some controversy over the effectiveness of state-run mental hospitals, and how their closure is a reflection of budget cuts, the real truth of the matter is that they are being closed because the state legislature is not willing to tax the populace to make sure\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25074,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/a-realistic-military.html","url_meta":{"origin":23953,"position":2},"title":"A realistic military","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 2:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It will be interesting to see how this actually plays out. 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