Dems offer Medicare, Social Security changes, GOP still says no to taxation increases

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Ezra Klein notices a slight miss of balance here: Democrats have called for desert reforms. Republicans have deserted taxation increases.

“Republicans start a spending discuss by observant any resolution in that wealthier people (or entities) compensate some-more taxes is off a table, and Democrats start it by observant Social Security and Medicare are off a table,” writes Dave Weigel. He goes on to validate that a bit, though this is a fake equilibrium that we hear a lot, and that isn’t true.

President Obama’s 2012 bill enclosed a call for bipartisan negotiations on Social Security and a set of beliefs a administration says it will pursue in a deal…. The existence is that Democrats have due taxation increases, spending cuts and desert reforms. You can disagree that they don’t go distant enough, though they’re all there. Republicans, as of yet, have not certified a need for new taxes, or even a death of proxy taxation cuts. There are people in both parties who have been comparatively some-more or reduction responsible, though in general, one celebration has put all on a list and a other hasn’t. That’s an critical disproportion between their mercantile stances, and it shouldn’t be obscured.

So what should occur next? If taxation cuts are off a table, afterwards Weigel’s fake equilibrium should come turn true, and Social Security and Medicare come right off that table, where they are indeed unresolved out right now by their lonesome. That’s an easy one. Because zero Democrats can tempt them with will make a Republicans give on taxes. Offerings won’t work, usually threats will. Like a hazard of supervision wholly floating adult over their insistence on impoverishing a nation’s seniors. When that starts to play out in a press, you’ll substantially hear a lot some-more Republicans sounding like Montana’s Rep. Denny Rehberg.

It’s feasible probable that digby is on to something, that we’re witnessing some critical kabuki with Durbin putting Social Security on a table so that Obama can swoop in in a finish and save it. But, as she says, “[t]he usually problem is that these negotiations tend to take on a life of their possess and we never know accurately how they’re going to come out.”

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