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Originally Posted by a.e.B.O.T.
I never said anything about 95 bills, I think we all can agree with the ridiculousness of that. What needs to be done is a few democrats going across the table with a few republicans to make one bill. I think the creation of a bill of this magnitude requires consideration from multiple angles.
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That can't happen when there is a nearly complete philosophical split in opinions over what fixes it. How do you consolidate the view that we need more limited spending almost exclusively on permanent or semi-permanent tax cuts (
not rebates) and anything more will make it worse with the view that we need massive government spending on anything to inject cash and that tax cuts are a big part of what got us into it? They are fairly mutually exclusive views that aren't really going to compromise well. That's why about the only votes across party lines are the liberal state Republicans in the Senate and the fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats in the House.
ETA: And it doesn't help win any Republicans who would consider crossing party lines when a lot of said massive government spending that the Democrats are proposing is being allocated towards projects that Republicans would either love to kill if they had the political capital to do so or have been resisting implementation of for years.