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

Even Ezra Klein repeated it on Lawrence O'Donnell'­s show last week -- "Internal divisions within the White House" and "37 Democrats in the House and a handful in the Senate threatened to balk" became the talking point both before and after the midterms.

The fact is and was that Bush's tax cuts need to expire, for EVERYBODY, and that the American people were fine with it.  But that was never to be what Obama, Democrats or Republican­s had in mind.  So it was kicked down the road, past the mid-terms, and the strategy was for Obama and Democrats to adopt Republican talking points -- That letting the Bush tax cuts expire was "increasin­g taxes".  That's straight out of the Republican game plan!:

First time a Democrat used this rhetoric -- November 30, 2010 -- We saw David Axelrod on Hardball setting up the continuanc­e of Bush's tax cuts:

"I think the most important thing to do now is the things American people expect and want.  One is to make sure they don't wake up on January 1st with a very large tax increase because the tax cuts were scheduled to expire at that time and there's a great sense of urgency on the part of the president.  I think that is shared on the part of the republican­s to make sure that doesn't happen." 

Democrats had rejected that spin years ago!  

You don't borrow money to give tax cuts.  

The 'Rule of Thumb' about when tax cuts make sense is, "When a nation's bills are paid".  When the nation is in surplus.  

You don't go on vacation when you haven't paid the rent.  You don't buy a Rolls Royce when you're living in your parents' garage.  You don't buy Godiva chocolates when there's no food in the fridge or the cupboards to feed your kids.

When a tax cut requires a nation to borrow more money, adding to the deficit, increasing the national debt, that's robbing the People to give to the rich.  Average Americans, our children, grandchild­ren, great-gran­dchildren, for generation­s to come, are getting stuck with the bill.
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