[Ibby]

Here, I'll say it without the setup and thus without the well-poisoning.

The Republican spending plan puts massive emphasis on cuts to government support to the middle- and working-class, and uses the "budget" as a cover for ideological non-budgetary attacks on rights like abortion, as well as to defund separately-passed environmental, consumer, and financial regulation, all while cutting taxes to the wealthiest bracket.

The Democratic plan cuts less from programs that directly benefit the poorer members of our society, cuts slightly more from Pentagon spending, and actually still KEEPS the bush-era tax cuts in effect, and still cuts the same amount of money from the overall budget.



it. is. not. about. costs. and it certainly isn't about jobs, or the economy. it's baldly ideological, almost entirely on social or pro-corporate grounds. You can debate the merits of those ideologies all you want, but to argue that the issue at hand is the size of the deficit is a flat-out lie.