Ryan Budget

Jonathan Zasloff's take, on David Brooks' take, on the Ryan Budget. [Moment of Deceit « The Reality-Based Community]

Here's my favorite.

Brooks... The Ryan budget will put all future arguments in the proper context: The current welfare state is simply unsustainable and anybody who is serious, on left or right, has to have a new vision of the social contract.

Zasloff.... No, that is not the proper context. The proper context is 1) that if we ended the Bush tax cuts, bringing us back to the socialistic 1990′s; and 2) stopped fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we could get a great deal of the budget under control. Moreover, every other advanced democracy is able to cover its entire population and control costs better than we do. That is the proper context.

Point Zasloff.

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