I don't think this comment by Senator Dodd on "
Meet The Press." yesterday on a Democratic "fix" to Bush's phony Social Security "Crisis" has gardener enough attention. I know the GOoPers were looking like a bunch of idiots, but look at the ground work Reid & Co. are laying out here:
This is a solvency issue, and there are ways of solving the solvency issue, in my view, without having to get into benefit cuts. Simply if you would just take what the president suggested in 2001 for his tax cuts, which were not to be permanent but to expire within 10 years. If he would not make those permanent, those tax cuts will amount to about $11 trillion in revenue losses over the next 75 years. The solvency issue for the Social Security Trust Fund is around $3 trillion. Just reduce that tax cut by $3 trillion, keep $8 trillion if you want. That solves the solvency problem without cutting benefits at all.
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This is a perfect sell to the electorate: With the Democrats, we can have our cake and eat it too. After all,
we are Americans.
I hope we continue to hear this line of attack, and we in the blogosphere need to amplify it. Not only are we in a perfect political place to launch this line, it's good policy--something that America could use, instead of the lobbyist written bills of the GOP. Not only that, it can unite the Democratic base. I think if there's one thing Democrats can agree on, it's repealing Bush's tax cuts.
Next stage will be the "GOP out of touch" pivot. Too far from Nov 06 still for that...
cross posted @ jScoop