Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Two grassroots political organizations -- one from the right, one from the left -- are offering Capitol Hill an entirely different way of looking at deficit reduction.
Rather than seeing it in partisan terms, or simply as a zero-sum choice between raising taxes and slashing social programs, the two groups on Thursday released a list of $1 trillion in proposed cuts targeting wasteful spending, ineffective programs and massive giveaways to special interests. The two organizations -- the public-interest group U.S. PIRG and the anti-tax National Taxpayers Union -- have agreed on more than 50 specific recommendations for the congressional super committee on deficit reduction. |