Morality Games
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I disagree with ANY tax increases.
However, that is a very long list of spending cuts. Are you saying that most are (D) sponsored subsidies? I don't know, just asking. If so, than I agree with you on that.
Low taxes for corporations have little utility right now, as due to the recession corporations have made so many reductions to their work forces that they won't be able to function if further cuts are made; the one point they won't compromise on is that they won't cut pay for executives. Since everything else is being sacrificed, I don't see a point in sparing the salaries of the people whose mismanagement culminated in the recession.
As for your other question, as an example, organic food has been on the march for the last couple years, leading to the establishment of health food sections in supermarkets even in isolated areas; that's because recent discoveries have drawn connections between the additives in most foods and prevalent health problems. The corporations founded on providing our chemical-laced diet are starting to feel the hurt, and they have more affinity with Republicans than with Democrats, so the directive to come down on organic food is probably at the behest of their lobbyists.
Truth be told, I'm not against reducing subsidies for organic food as long as subsidies are cut/taxes raised for competing industries. Prices at the supermarket will go up, unfortunately, but Americans still throw away vast portions of food, so I can only be so against it.