In Deficit Plan, Obama Drops Compromise for Confrontation
Binyamin Applebaum, writing for the NY Times:
The key points of the plan read like a mirror image of the priorities espoused by House Republicans. The president proposed raising taxes by $1.5 trillion, mostly on the wealthy, while making only modest cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, and walling off Social Security from any changes. The plan also would reduce military spending by more than $1 trillion. […]
“This is not class warfare,” Mr. Obama countered Monday in his Rose Garden remarks. “It is math. The money is going to have to come from someplace.”
I’m happy about this. Glad to see Obama trying a different strategy for dealing with the harsh realities of governing our divided country.