Boehner's own 'fiscal experts' agree that the Republican position on taxes is unworkable

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Boehner's own 'fiscal experts' agree that the Republican position on taxes is unworkable
by Hunter
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/27/1020679/-Boehners-own-fiscal-experts-agree-that-the-Republican-position-on-taxes-is-unworkable?via=blog_1

You may recall, if you are the sort of person to recall such things, that John Boehner's office recently issued a statement claiming an assortment of economists and other figures were really, really put out by the president's deficit reduction proposals, because taxes are mean and scary and the deficit can only really be tackled by throwing our grandmothers out on the street, culling the sick, and reducing our interstate highway system to two-lane dirt roads complete with Oregon Trail style river crossings.

Political Correction took a look specifically at the "fiscal experts" cited by Boehner as saying the White House plan would do "more harm than good." It turns out that no, five of the six didn't say anything of the sort. Boehner's office, as usual, is lying. But what those fiscal experts did say is more interesting:
http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201109260016

While five of the six "fiscal experts" cited by Boehner's office didn't actually say what Boehner's staff claims they said, they have said that deficit reduction will require revenue increases, in direct contradiction of GOP dogma. And they've also done so in blunt language that leaves no doubt about the Republicans' irresponsibility.

Former Government Accountability Office head David Walker, for example, has said: "Anybody that passed basic math would have known that you cannot end up dealing with our structural problems in our deficits without having more revenues." Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Budget has noted, "You can not get to any reasonable goal without new revenues," and "Policies that exempt tax cuts from budget constraints are not only economically dangerous, they are cowardly." Former CBO director Rudolph Penner says the problem "cannot be entirely solved on either the tax or spending side of the budget," and "If one wanted to balance the budget without any increase in tax burdens, there would have to be draconian cuts in Social Security, Medicare and other programs." And Robert Bixby of the Concord Coalition thinks deficit reduction will require spending cuts and revenue increases, adding, "It's long past time for partisan purists in Washington to recognize that."

Imagine that: Boehner's own experts are using words like "dangerous," "cowardly" and "draconian" when describing the Republican insistence on no new revenues.

Does John Boehner care what they really say? Of course not. Nothing about the Republican position is based on the opinion of "experts."

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[The Second Stone]

1. I'm stunned that only one out of six of their

go to economic opinion whores has not seen fit to lie about the revenue problem, and in fact one has called them cowardly.