The reason that Republicans struggle to say how to pay for the tax cuts is because it is impossible to pay for tax cuts with any adjustment to the budget of consequence. The laws of mathematics still apply. Unfortunately when rhetoric meets reality, reality always wins.
Unfortunately the Right Wing Echo Chamber has been successful in convincing the Tea Party folks and many Americans of the mathematically impossible. It would be interesting to see their resolve when they realize that the only solution to keep very low taxes on the wealthy including taxing the working person at a much higher rate than the investing person, would be reducing their Medicare, Social Security, and Veterans benefits.
It is easy to spew nonsense. It is difficult to govern. We’ve had a lack of responsible government for 30 years sans Bush 1/Clinton[first term].
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On Sunday’s morning public affairs shows, both Republican Senate candidates Carly Fiorina in California and Ken Buck in Colorado struggled to give specifics about how they would reduce the deficit while also supporting expensive extensions of the Bush tax cuts. Although journalists ask Republicans this question almost without fail in debates and interviews, candidates and lawmakers still consistently stumble over it. On "Fox News Sunday," host Chris Wallace told Fiorina that he hadn’t "gotten many specifics" from her and said, "So now, as a non-career politician, as the anti-Barbara Boxer, you tell me specifically what are you going to do to cut the billions, the trillions, of dollars in entitlements?" Fiorina replied by blasting talk of a value-added tax, but Wallace interrupted her and again asked her whether she would cut entitlements. The result was a lengthy exchange in which Fiorina accused Wallace of asking her a "political question" and coming up with no answers other than cutting "waste" and saying "we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices":
FIORINA: See, Chris, I have to — you know, Chris, I have to say, with all due respect, you’re asking a typical political question. […]
WALLACE: Ms. Fiorina, but that’s where the money is. The money is in Medicare. The money is in Social Security. We’ve got the baby boomers coming. There is going to be a huge explosion of entitlement spending, and you call it a political question when I ask you to name one single entitlement expenditure you’re willing to cut.
FIORINA: Chris, I believe that to deal with entitlement reform, which we must deal with, we ought to put every possible solution up on the table, except we should be very clear that we are not going to cut benefits to those nearing retirement or those in retirement.
But having said all of that, for years and years, career politicians, frankly, of both parties have said, Oh, no, the only way to cut spending is to deal with entitlements. It’s the political third rail. And then they never get about the business of cutting out waste and inefficiency. They never get to the point of banning earmarks.
WALLACE: But we’ve been talking about waste, fraud and inefficiency —
FIORINA: Exactly. Exactly.
Republicans Struggle To Say How They Would Pay For Tax Cuts (VIDEO)