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November 9, 2011
Re: Supercommittee Goes Boom
Topics: Political News and commentariesAs many have expected, the Democrats last night rejected a framework for compromise that would have included significant new revenues, and President Obama is ever-more likely to get the optic and ammunition for the talking point he wants ... a do-nothing Congress is doing nothing.
Even though I dislike Norquist and much of what he stands for, I'm beginning to believe like Mark Krikorian - that Grover's right:
"Comprehensive" deals, whether they purport to pack together spending cuts with tax hikes or immigration enforcement with amnesty, are always a trick. As I've noted before, the political class always wants more revenue (and immigration) and will only pay lip service to spending cuts (and immigration enforcement) so long as it has to, and will welsh on the deal at the first opportunity. The difference is that Grover, being a down-the-line libertarian purist, wants unlimited immigration, so he was happy to promote the Kennedy-Bush comprehensive amnesty hoax a few years back; on the other hand, he really does want smaller government, so he's no falling for a comprehensive tax deal. (What Grover and too many of his fellow libertarians can't seem to accept is that mass immigration inevitably means bigger government.)More simply put, you just can't trust liberals to keep their word, and to them, the word "compromise" means "their way or the highway" and is nothing less than an invitation to cheat!Everyone knows there's going to have to be some tax hikes and amnesty for some illegal aliens. But the sequence is the same in both areas: The broccoli the politicians would rather not eat -- genuine spending cuts and immigration enforcement -- has to come first, without preconditions or packages or tradeoffs or comprehensive deals. Only then can there be any discussion of the dessert of increased taxes or amnesty."
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Posted by Hyscience at November 9, 2011 1:05 PM
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