If your family makes less than $250,000 a year, your taxes won’t go up.
That is a new Clinton pledge. Good bumper sticker but maybe a bad idea, according to most Progressives.
Amazingly, many Progressives were very upset with the limits. More than half a dozen economists told "Time" that while Clinton’s red line may be good politics in a general election, it is misguided policy that would limit her ability to work with Congress to enact a domestic agenda. They say that Clinton’s $250,000 threshold constrains her from proposing progressive items that might require broad tax increases and give her an arbitrary obstacle to negotiating a smart tax policy. “From the perspective of the progressive policies we actually need—not to mention the pressures on the fiscal budget in coming years—it’s a serious mistake to sign up to these thresholds as if they’re etched in stone,” said Jared Bernstein, chief economist for Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.
These people have extraordinary demands for their personal plans and policies. And they are certain; there is little modesty in their beliefs or their conclusions. Nor are they hesitant to draft bystanders into their vision--at the bystander's expense. They are a righteous as if they were drafting people into a war against the Nazis. This is a Pharisee's assumption of rectitude and power. And anyone who disagrees shies away as they are accused and pilloried.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
What this really means is, when these people want to spend other people's money, they mean all other people. And probably all they can get.
Amazingly, many Progressives were very upset with the limits. More than half a dozen economists told "Time" that while Clinton’s red line may be good politics in a general election, it is misguided policy that would limit her ability to work with Congress to enact a domestic agenda. They say that Clinton’s $250,000 threshold constrains her from proposing progressive items that might require broad tax increases and give her an arbitrary obstacle to negotiating a smart tax policy. “From the perspective of the progressive policies we actually need—not to mention the pressures on the fiscal budget in coming years—it’s a serious mistake to sign up to these thresholds as if they’re etched in stone,” said Jared Bernstein, chief economist for Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.
These people have extraordinary demands for their personal plans and policies. And they are certain; there is little modesty in their beliefs or their conclusions. Nor are they hesitant to draft bystanders into their vision--at the bystander's expense. They are a righteous as if they were drafting people into a war against the Nazis. This is a Pharisee's assumption of rectitude and power. And anyone who disagrees shies away as they are accused and pilloried.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
What this really means is, when these people want to spend other people's money, they mean all other people. And probably all they can get.
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