----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:31 AM Subject: Re: another view of Daschle
> On budget politics, I think there is a bit of a generational thing going.
> Younger progressives who were politicized under Reagan associate deficit
> spending with tax cuts for the rich and military spending, so much of the
> old Keynesian ardor is lost on them (and me). In the abstract, I
understand
> the argument, although I've never seen it in practice, except Reagan's
> rightwing version of it. So while Feingold is a bit tighter than even I
> like, it seems far better than the "tax cut and spend" politics of
rightwing
> deficit spending.
>
> Nathan Newman
> nathan at newman.org
I'm not sure we're really in disagreement here, but when is a Democrat going to be bold enough to acknowledge the obvious: real progress requires tax increases?
-- Luke