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Richard Schwab Writes
"Let's Not Blur Deficit Reduction Into Social Warfare"
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (whom I greatly respect and admire) has "got it right." He wants to include tax reform in the federal budget deficit debate. He points to the lessons learned from the 1990s when President Clinton balanced the budget with a plan that didn't just cut domestic discretionary spending (currently only 12% of the total budget,) but also tackled mandatory spending and reform to the tax code. Senator Schumer is promoting a similar strategy for any deal struck on a continuing resolution for the rest of this fiscal year.
Schumer is critical of the House Republicans' current approach for focusing so narrowly on domestic discretionary spending. He argues this approach is harmful to economic growth and does not meaningfully reduce the deficit and much less the debt. I would add that this narrow focus on domestic discretionary spending unnecessarily puts at risk education, health, and critical social safety net programs.
It appears conservative lawmakers and activists want to use the budget process to force action on their politically volatile social issue policy goals. Choking off funding for Planned Parent Hood, defunding the new health care/insurance reform law, overturning environmental, financial, consumer protection regulations, and defunding Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio are just a few of the targets.
A side bar: The scale of the cost of Public Broadcasting is minuscule in the context of the deficit as a whole. Yet the value of Public Broadcasting to our nation is monumental. Public Broadcasting received $430 million in federal funding for 2011 and $445 million for 2012, and the most recent Obama budget bumps funding slightly to $451 million. These funds represent an unrecognizable, tiny drop in the nation's deficit bucket. The effort to eliminate funding for Public Broadcasting has more to do with a Culture War than debt reduction.
I stand with Senator Charles Shumer and the White House in a call to "broaden the playing field" when it comes to deficit and debt reduction.
Richard O. Schwab was formerly associate head of school and middle school head, Cincinnati Country Day School. He is also neighborhood team leader, Glendale Organizing For America Community Team (www.gofact.blogspot.com) He lives in Glendale.
Richard O. Schwab
830 Congress Ave.
Glendale, Ohio 45246
H.513-771-4397
M.513-470-4599
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (whom I greatly respect and admire) has "got it right." He wants to include tax reform in the federal budget deficit debate. He points to the lessons learned from the 1990s when President Clinton balanced the budget with a plan that didn't just cut domestic discretionary spending (currently only 12% of the total budget,) but also tackled mandatory spending and reform to the tax code. Senator Schumer is promoting a similar strategy for any deal struck on a continuing resolution for the rest of this fiscal year.
Schumer is critical of the House Republicans' current approach for focusing so narrowly on domestic discretionary spending. He argues this approach is harmful to economic growth and does not meaningfully reduce the deficit and much less the debt. I would add that this narrow focus on domestic discretionary spending unnecessarily puts at risk education, health, and critical social safety net programs.
It appears conservative lawmakers and activists want to use the budget process to force action on their politically volatile social issue policy goals. Choking off funding for Planned Parent Hood, defunding the new health care/insurance reform law, overturning environmental, financial, consumer protection regulations, and defunding Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio are just a few of the targets.
A side bar: The scale of the cost of Public Broadcasting is minuscule in the context of the deficit as a whole. Yet the value of Public Broadcasting to our nation is monumental. Public Broadcasting received $430 million in federal funding for 2011 and $445 million for 2012, and the most recent Obama budget bumps funding slightly to $451 million. These funds represent an unrecognizable, tiny drop in the nation's deficit bucket. The effort to eliminate funding for Public Broadcasting has more to do with a Culture War than debt reduction.
I stand with Senator Charles Shumer and the White House in a call to "broaden the playing field" when it comes to deficit and debt reduction.
Richard O. Schwab was formerly associate head of school and middle school head, Cincinnati Country Day School. He is also neighborhood team leader, Glendale Organizing For America Community Team (www.gofact.blogspot.com) He lives in Glendale.
Richard O. Schwab
830 Congress Ave.
Glendale, Ohio 45246
H.513-771-4397
M.513-470-4599
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