To hell with the ‘quiet room’

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January 13, 2012 10:00 AM
To hell with the ‘quiet room’

By Steve Benen

While some would have us limit all discussions of income inequality to “quiet rooms,” I’m relieved to see that President Obama’s economic team feels differently.

<..> Want to understand the differences between priorities of a Democratic and a Republican administration in 2013? This is an issue for the top of the list.

What’s more, the economist highlighted the right remedy to address these obscene wealth disparities: a commitment to “equality of opportunity” through, among other things, health care reform, safeguards to protect consumers against Wall Street recklessness, and the end of “unnecessary tax cuts for the wealthy.”

In contrast, in case anyone’s forgotten, every Republican presidential candidate intends to eliminate the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, give Wall Street free rein, and expand unnecessary tax cuts for the wealthy.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/politic...034736.php

Well said, the differences between the Obama outlook and the Romney outlook are impossible to miss.