The Unexpected: David Brooks of the NYT Slams Progressives For Their Spending

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You wouldn’t see this one coming, but it’s sure welcome.

[b]"Democrats would make that weighty tax burden much, much heavier. In fact, the entire Democratic governing vision, from President Obama on down, is based on the notion that we can have a growing welfare state and pay for it by taxing the top 2 percent.

The first problem, of course, is that there aren’t enough rich people to cover even the current spending plans. As an analysis by the group Third Way demonstrated, even if we threw every semiplausible tax increase at the rich, the national debt would still double over the next three decades…[/b]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/opinion/brooks-the-progressive-shift.html

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Good read, thanks for sharing. But I’m not sure what’s so surprising about it. Brooks is an Andrew Sullivan type conservative.

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:jester:

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Not sure about the above comparison, but either way you don’t often see one of their top writers delivering such a harsh blow to not just the left but also to the president himself. You have to admit it is somewhat noteworthy in that regard.