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The next round, to avoid sequestration, must include tax revenues. (Original Post) ProSense Jan 2013 OP
What's our leverage? Proud Public Servant Jan 2013 #1
The deal states that for every $1 of spending cuts there needs to be $1 of tax revenue ProSense Jan 2013 #2

Proud Public Servant

(2,097 posts)
1. What's our leverage?
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 11:18 AM
Jan 2013

I don't disagree with your point; I just don't see how we get there.

If you believe we succeeded in this week's negotiations, it's because we had leverage: the GOP had more to lose that we did. But come March, it feels like the dynamic is reversed. They've got both the debt ceiling and the automatic discretionary spending cuts to hold over our head; what have we got, exactly? (And don't say "defense spending"; our party sucks up to the military just as enthusiastically as there's does.) Plus they're either going to have as Speaker either Boehner trying to make up for the appearance of weakness this week, or someone like Cantor who'd rather blow the place up than negotiate.

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
2. The deal states that for every $1 of spending cuts there needs to be $1 of tax revenue
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 11:22 AM
Jan 2013

Tax revenues!

Let's start identifying some.

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