Obviously fiscal policy doesn’t really grab my interest as much as the other things I usually write about. But the Deficit Commission’s non-report suggesting that veterans pay for their combat injuries, working people take a payroll tax hike and social security benefits get cut so we can reduce the corporate tax rate is infuriating. There’s a lot of preening babble about sacrifice from the austerity crowd, but what it comes down to is the idea that the deficit should be balanced at any cost as long as it doesn’t involve rich people paying more money.
This probably doesn’t have much of a political future, but as a symbolic expression of the values of influential political elites I find it pretty appalling.
