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The GOP cannot SPECIFICALLY say HOW they are going to raise revenue without raising taxes. They gave a vague statement with no substance. Likewise, the Dems need to compromise and show specific cuts and not just to defense.
Are people finally starting to see how the two sides are failing or are there still those out there that feel "their" side is the good guys and the other is the bad guy?
Absolutely agree here. The GOP needs to put forth, at the very least, a general proposed "we can do these specific loopholes" plan initially. If they want to work with Democrats afterwards to tweak that, so be it. But they need some specifics.
That said...for a side that continues to talk about needing to take a "balanced approach" to dealing with our defiict problem, there's a definite problem. Refusing to talk about anything right now other than tax cuts and putting spending cuts off till later, ignoring the fact that CURRENT spending levels are artificially inflated due to the massive increase for supposedly "emergency" reasons over the past few years and using current spending as the "normal" baseline, and attempting to claim common sense occuring things as a large portion of your "Cuts" is ridiculous.
We're not going to see antyhing worth while done because neither side is going to show an honest, good faith, reasonable bending on the portion of this they don't want to deal with.