[lbo-talk] Tuff Lib'rul

Michael Dawson -PSU mdawson at pdx.edu
Thu Jan 29 14:26:40 PST 2004


Back when liberalism still stood on the podium, balanced budgets used to be the right's main attack against progressive social programs. Back when the New Deal was not a shamed distant memory, liberals used to argue (correctly) that some kinds of deficit spending pay themselves off. Pairing the "balanced budgets" fetish with charges of "big spending" is running to the right of Bush.


> Balanced budgets are a good thing. Raise spending and raise taxes to pay
> for it.
>
> -- Luke



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