re: #65 Obdicut

Not really. From the point of view of increasing the deficit, they’re exactly the same.

You think Obama is interested in taxing for taxing’s sake or something?

And no, you shouldn’t construct a budget based on revenues. You should determine what spending should be, in order to provide for the challenges facing us, and you raise the revenue to support that. The key part, of course, is constraining what spending should be to actual needs.

And of course GW Bush did exactly the opposite—handed out tax cuts for no reason and then increased spending. The John McCain of 1999-2000 was appropriately negative about the idea…I miss that guy.