Dean: Tax Deal: 'A Short-Term Washington Fix' Filled With Easy Promises

[hlthe2b]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/12/howard-dean-tax-deal_n_795501.htmlOn Tax Deal: 'A Short-Term Washington Fix' Filled With Easy Promises

"This is a short-term Washington fix," former DNC header Howard Dean declared on CBS's "Face the Nation." "It does nothing about this biggest long-term threat to America, which is the deficit. I don't hear Republicans or Democrats talking about the deficit. There is no pain in this agreement. This is the easy way out for everybody, much as everybody is complaining, hooting and hollering, this is an inside-the-beltway fuss and somebody needs to do something about the long-term problems to this country. It is not in this bill."

"The thing that bothers me about it is we have yet to deal with the biggest problem that is facing this country, which is the size of the deficit, and nobody is doing anything about it," the former Vermont Governor added later. "It is easy to promise everybody tax cuts all the time. You have got to make some cuts if you are going to do that."

Appearing on "Meet the Press," the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee, was pressed on precisely these critiques and fell back on the tax deal's stimulative aspects.

more at link above. (don't shoot the messenger)

[hlthe2b]

1. Posts on Robert Reich's and Howard Dean both being unrec'd

Why won't DUers offer a counter argument, rather than simply unrec the thread? I posted because I would like to see my smart DUer counterparts discuss and critique these opinions. Yet, both are simply being allowed to sink with constant unrecs. That is a sad comment on where we are with our discussion, IMO. :shrug:

[mikehiggins]

2. Dean For President in 2012 n/t