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Redstate...
The
Super Committee Failed The Day It
Was Created
Posted by Erick Erickson
Tuesday, November 22nd
The
Super Committee has failed to find
a way to trim $1.2 trillion from the deficit. The fact is, though, the
Super Committee
was a failure from the moment it was conceived. Congress, both
Democrats and
Republicans, could not control itself. So it punted its failures to a
Super
Committee and even the threat of massive defense cuts could not prompt
Congress
to kick its spending addiction.
Now,
some members of Congress are even
saying “to hell with the defense cuts. We’ll stop those cuts.” Of
course.
But
it was all a bunch of smoke and
mirrors for one simple reason.
We’re
going to add ten trillion
dollars over the next ten years and all this committee was supposed to
do was
find $1.2 trillion to trim over the same ten years, i.e. a hundred
billion
dollars in cuts a year to a trillion dollars in deficits a year.
The
math never added up. The Super
Committee and the elaborate theater that preceded it were just a
bipartisan way
to cover up the fact that both Democrats and Republicans have screwed
the
country out of its life savings while they’ve been funding their pet
projects
from bridges to nowhere to solar panel firms.
And
this all leads to a calamitous
dirty little not so secret that the Democrats have no answer for. If
Republicans, who were willing to raise taxes on the Super Committee by
the way,
gave the Democrats their ultimate dream — taking 100% of all dollars
earned
from every single person who makes $200,000.00 a year or more — we
still
wouldn’t close Barack Obama’s budget deficit. There’d still be a gap.
That
leads us in two directions no one
in Washington wants to go. Either start raising taxes on the middle
class or
start cutting significantly from the federal budget.
Because
no one in Washington outside
of the real conservatives are willing to do either, the Super
Committee, the
Budget Control Act, and every statement to every reporter by every
leader of
either party is all smoke and mirrors.
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this and other columns at
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