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In a November 10 press release, BPC "appaud(ed NCFRF's) efforts....to address the nation's serious fiscal problems and hopes they can achieve the commission's support for a viable plan."
A supportive November 10 New York Times editorial also endorsed it titled, "Some Fiscal Reality," saying:
"The draft proposal by the chairmen of President Obama's deficit-reduction commission was a welcome antidote to the low-minded debate that dominated the midterm elections," offering "no credible plans."
"It lays out sensible principles....It puts everything on the table, including tax reform" and spending cuts. "At a time when good ideas are depressingly scarce in the political and economic debate, and bipartisan agreement even scarcer, this is a commendable start."
The editorial ended saying:
"We hoped the Republicans would pause long enough in their gleeful planning of President Obama's final defeat, and the Democrats would stop wringing their hands, long enough to read this important document - and then act on it."
Given decades of distorting and suppressing truth, endorsing imperial wars, supporting wealth and power, backing corporate interests, and disdaining working Americans, the Times' position is unsurprising. It also recommends a value added tax to "spur growth," hitting lower income Americans hardest if enacted.
Hopefully saner voices and public outrage will kill it, sending it to history's dustbin where it belongs, along with neanderthal extremists who proposed it.
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