This is just beyond the pale. A noted hard-right senator has the temerity to claim that deficit neutrality is not part of the plan:
"Just for a second -- health care reform, whether you use a ten-year number or when you start in 2010 or start in 2014, wherever you start at, so it is still either $1 trillion or it's $2.5 trillion, depending on where you start…"
And how does this arch-conservative justify these outrageous comments?
Well, he points out, without a thought of how unlikely this might be, that all the tax increases start in Year One of "The Plan," but that expenditures don't actually occur until Year 5.
Well, if you're going to use facts and logic...
Shame on you, Senator Max Baucus, shame on you.
"Just for a second -- health care reform, whether you use a ten-year number or when you start in 2010 or start in 2014, wherever you start at, so it is still either $1 trillion or it's $2.5 trillion, depending on where you start…"
And how does this arch-conservative justify these outrageous comments?
Well, he points out, without a thought of how unlikely this might be, that all the tax increases start in Year One of "The Plan," but that expenditures don't actually occur until Year 5.
Well, if you're going to use facts and logic...
Shame on you, Senator Max Baucus, shame on you.
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