Robert Kuttner: Social Security: Secure With Obama?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 2nd, 2012 5:43 am by HL
Robert Kuttner: Social Security: Secure With Obama?
The Republicans handed President Obama a nice tactical victory when they caved-in and agreed to extend the payroll tax cut on Obama’s terms. But the extension deal is only for two months, which means the battle will be fought all over again in February. You could say this is double-stupidity on the Republicans’ part, since the public will be treated yet again to a debate in which the Democrats want to tax millionaires in order to spare working people a tax hike, while Republicans defend the very rich and demand further cuts in valued programs as the price of avoiding a tax increase on ordinary Americans. But maybe it’s Democrats who have set themselves a trap. What if the president’s nice partisan victory is actually hollow, or even Pyrrhic?
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