re: #227 uncah91

If we simply let the bush tax cuts expire, the deficit would go poof once we got out back to full employment (and got out of Afghanistan).

That sounds plausible though I haven’t seen numbers.

once we got out back to full employment: I suspect there’s more to that than the level of taxation and spending.

Proposing even more tax cuts isn’t facing the problem. Look up the phrase “starve the beast” and you will understand that the crisis is a manufactured one.

I know the phrase, thank you, but looked it up just in case I had misunderstood it. I hadn’t.

In exchange for your suggestion, I offer Thucydides’ warnings about partisanship.