Wednesday, February 11, 2009
This Is Why I Hate Politics
Congress finally reached a deal on the stimulus plan.
In order to appease Republicans, spending on education and health programs was cut back and replaced with tax cuts. According to the New York Times, about $70 billion was allocated just to fix the alternative minimum tax, which doesn't really have much to do with economic stimulus and which many people thought was going to get fixed later this year anyway.
And now there's another $2.5 trillion stimulus package being proposed. Wonderful.
Not only are we spending huge amounts of money, and getting ourselves even further into debt, but we're not even spending it on the things that could help people the most in the long run. Great.
In order to appease Republicans, spending on education and health programs was cut back and replaced with tax cuts. According to the New York Times, about $70 billion was allocated just to fix the alternative minimum tax, which doesn't really have much to do with economic stimulus and which many people thought was going to get fixed later this year anyway.
And now there's another $2.5 trillion stimulus package being proposed. Wonderful.
Not only are we spending huge amounts of money, and getting ourselves even further into debt, but we're not even spending it on the things that could help people the most in the long run. Great.
# posted by Andrew Johnson : 2/11/2009 04:36:00 PM 
