I think there are a few in both parties who would rather have a political issue for elections in the fall than accomplishing something and arguing about who did it. I'd much rather be arguing about success and who did it rather than failure and whose fault it is. I've been around politics long enough to understand that we're probably headed for some sort of a compromise. The economists who advise us frankly have trouble remembering their own Social Security numbers and yet they're telling us what it's going to look like in America eight or nine years from now. The people I speak to in Illinois and others really want us to focus on the bottom line, keep this economic recovery moving forward, creating good jobs and opportunities and pay down the national debt, make those your two first priorities.
Tax cuts run a distant third.
Those are not my numbers. That's the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. If I could do this my way, I would simply wait, have a presidential election and then have a tax cut, if people voted for one. Unless we give some of this money back, it's going to be gone by the time we have a new President because it's being spent. Dick talks about buying down debt.