I can't help but be bemused by this sudden concern with deficit levels, since the obvious solution, not often suggested by those that raise the alarm in such stark terms, is to increase federal funding levels (by requiring the most affluent among us to chip back in more by way of taxes), which have been artificially low since at least the early 1980s.
Our thanks to the Republicans, whose attention to the deficit dramatically underscores both the need to permit the Bush era tax cuts to expire and the devastating failure of trickle-down economics.
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