Opinion piece as in someone’s opinion. Please discuss your take on that opinion. This does not represent the opinion held of everyone at WaPo. This is not fact but opinion. Not sure how much more of a disclaimer about it being an opinion I can give.
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Tax and spend and if that’s not enough to cover keep spending and hell go on and spend a little more the kids will get it. Politicians are not looking out for our own well being, they exist to accumulate power and keep their job. You don’t keep your job by making hard decisions when they’re unpopular. And the continued hard decisions that keep having to be made as the cost keep rising, do you entrust politicians to keep raising taxes so that the debt load doesn’t spiral our of control? Or do we accept that it’s virtually impossible for hard decisions to be made by politicians and there will be a constant kicking of the can.
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But this poses a whole other round of questions that are rarely asked of progressives. If health-care costs continue to rise — as they have for decades in every country regardless of the structure of its health-care system — how are we supposed to structure our tax collection to pay for a single-payer system? Will we automatically keep raising taxes to match health-care costs? How do we guarantee that lawmakers regularly update what will inevitably be an unpopular tax burden so that health-care spending doesn’t result in massive deficits in our federal budget?
The answer shouldn’t surprise you: Progressives don’t know. Nor do they care. This they made abundantly clear in announcing this week their opposition to a common-sense rule designed to keep federal deficits to a minimum.
On Wednesday, a number of prominent progressives announced that they would not vote for a rule backed by Democratic leadership known as PAYGO, or “Pay As You Go,” which would require the incoming Congress to offset any new spending with either an increase in taxes or a cut in government spending. In other words, it’s meant to keep deficits from spiraling further out of control.
Tax and spend and if that’s not enough to cover keep spending and hell go on and spend a little more the kids will get it. Politicians are not looking out for our own well being, they exist to accumulate power and keep their job. You don’t keep your job by making hard decisions when they’re unpopular. And the continued hard decisions that keep having to be made as the cost keep rising, do you entrust politicians to keep raising taxes so that the debt load doesn’t spiral our of control? Or do we accept that it’s virtually impossible for hard decisions to be made by politicians and there will be a constant kicking of the can.
Progressive favorite Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) quickly chimed in on Twitter with her support: “PAYGO isn’t only bad economics, it’s also a dark political maneuver designed to hamstring progress on healthcare + other leg. We shouldn’t hinder ourselves from the start.”
That should worry anyone. The mentality that resources are infinite and we shouldn’t worry about pay for things because it’s a dark political maneuver. Instead the kids have told me go on and put it on them. If you need more just keep spending, whatever it takes. We’ll worry about how to pay for it later on amirite. That’s the path to national bankruptcy and economic ruin.
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