June 12, 2006
The Democrat Agenda
- Democrats will introduce a domestic agenda for the 2006 campaign this week, confident that their opportunity to pick up seats is the best in a generation, yet divided over how much an agenda will matter.
The Democratic program will consist of bread-and-butter priorities: increasing the minimum wage, cutting costs of prescription drugs, reducing interest rates on student loans, rolling back subsidies for oil companies, and pay-as-you-go budgeting, according to party officials.
Hard to disagree with Andy Roth @ Club for Growth's blog who writes...
- Aside from the subsidies (which is a good idea, and an even better one if they extended it to ALL industries), this list is nothing but price controls and higher taxes. That’s the best they can offer?
Isn't it kind of late in the game to introduce an agenda? I guess the plan was to run on Republican self-destruction for a while. Politics Posted by AlexC at June 12, 2006 11:05 PM
I'd buy into the student loan rate reduction as well. These are after all 100% guaranteed loans, you can't get much lower risk than that.
Posted by: silence dogood at June 13, 2006 3:01 PMHuh? The reason they're guaranteed is because defaults are covered by our tax dollars. If interest rates are reduced it's not by well-heeled bankers developing social conscience - it's by subsidizing them with more of our tax dollars.
Why is college education so expensive? Because the demand is astronomical. College has become the 13-16th grades of secondary school. And for what purpose? Mostly to delay matriculation from Barone's Soft America to Hard America.
Posted by: johngalt at June 13, 2006 3:19 PM | What do you think? [2]