Hopefully, We Can Unfrack This in the Conference Committee

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So, based on my not so informed analysis, what the Senate now has a deal on sucks. It appears that the only criteria used by those “wise people” in the middle was what had extensive lobbying support.

Cuts:

  • Aid to states.
  • Education funding.

Kept or increased:

  • More tax cuts.
  • Increased funding on the census. (Like that’s going to help now?)
  • Subsidies for digital TV receivers. (Whiskey tango foxtrot)?
  • More tax cuts.
  • The $15,000 house flipping tax credit.

Total spending is down by around ¼, and tax cuts are up.

Without some Republican style shenanigans in the conference committee (how about stripping out all the tax cuts?) this will really suck.

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