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It's interesting how temporary tax cuts always seem to expire, but temporary taxes never seem to.
by ericdykstra 14y ago
It's interesting how temporary tax cuts always seem to expire, but temporary taxes never seem to.
- fennecfoxen 14y agoAdd to this temporary spending programs. GWBush's last year added ~$1 trillion in "emergency" spending, growing federal spending by an astounding ~50%, and SOMEHOW four years later it's turned into entitlements and the like, part of the permanent spending baseline. (This is the same baseline-based math which calls a reduction in the rate of spending growth some sort or another of a "devastating cut", naturally, though you'll see more ostentatious examples of this rhetoric with California's recent education-policy games than you will at the national level.)
- orangecat 14y agoWell, there seems to be universal agreement that the "temporary" tax cuts for the non-rich should be made permanent. With which I disagree; if we want to have an expensive welfare state and police the world, we should have the honesty to pay for it.