A Guide to Budget Rhetoric →
Arnold Kling offers some perceptive words Congressional budgeting and campaign rhetoric.
Because the budget is so far from being sustainable, budget rhetoric needs to be re-interpreted.
When their side refuses to cut spending because it would be "cruel," they are ensuring that future spending cuts will be even crueler.
When our side refuses to raise taxes, we are ensuring that future tax increases will be higher.
Until the baseline is a sustainable budget, the rhetoric will be the opposite of reality.
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