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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats, emboldened by GOP cuts and policies, back bigger government
Democrats have spent years working to counter Republican attacks on them as big-spending liberals, from passage of the last balanced budget during the Bill Clinton years to Barack Obamas insistence that the Affordable Care Act pay for itself.
But now that Republicans have blown up the deficit with a $1.5 trillion tax cut and other high-cost policies, many Democrats feel freed.
In recent months, Democratic lawmakers and candidates have endorsed plans allowing anyone to buy into Medicare, to make college effectively debt-free, to replace the payday loan industry with small government banks and to provide a job guarantee that would spend to put people to work.
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Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Their policy proposals get us there.
Not bigger as stated in the misleading header, but effective & efficient.
Big difference.
modrepub
(3,491 posts)If the Repubs are going to punish states that have high taxes by caping local and state deductions then it's only fair that states that don't pay "their fair share" should not get more federal money than they contribute. Why are we building and supporting infrastructure in places with declining populations or areas that pay little federal taxes? Just seems fair.