Shanty
Death Tongue
There's no need to offset necessary spending with cuts that hurt the economy in the still continuing wake of the GOP's Great Recession. Yes, the wake is receding, but it could have been mitigated with some more spending, that would have paid for itself by correcting the damage the housing bubble did, and seeing revenues increase faster than they have under the GOP obstructing recovery. One way to help the economy recover is infrastructure spending. If you offset the spending with unnecessary cuts, you don't see the revenues come in as fast.But many Republicans say they'd rather offset increases in transportation spending with cuts to other government programs rather than tax increases.
This is good.
Instead, Obama is pushing a plan to close tax loopholes and use the revenue to pay for increased transportation spending for the next four years.
This is bad.