A Deficit Of Commonsense
Who votes for these people?
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) argued at a news conference with the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus that the United States does not currently have a budget crisis.
“That’s the real crisis – the unemployment, not the deficit. We don’t have a deficit problem right now. In the long term, we have a deficit problem – we’ve got to get it under control but not right now,” said Nadler at the Capitol on Wednesday.
The solution? More taxes and more big government, of course. Nadler explains:
“When we talk about, ‘we’ve got a budget deficit crisis’ no we don’t. We have a tax crisis, we have a crisis that we’re not taxing properly and we have a recession and an unemployment crisis.
“The way to get out of that unemployment crisis is to spend money on more food stamps and on aid to states and local governments so they don’t lay off people and on infrastructure so we can be competitive and put people to work and if we did that, unemployment would go down, tax receipts would go up and we’d be well on our way out of this so-called crisis.”
Problem solved. Never mind that we’re sunk past our eyeballs in a $14 trillion debt swamp and that working-class Americans and small businesses are already struggling under oppressive tax burdens. Just give a little more to government and it’ll fix everything.
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