After this morning's Finance Committee hearing, during which an over-capacity crowd spoke almost entirely in favor of raising new revenue in order to rescue some government-provided assistance programs they believe vital, we here in the HDC were reminded of this quote from "The Audacity of Hope" by President Obama:
"We will have to stop pretending that all cuts in spending are equivalent, or that all tax increases are the same. Ending corporate subsidies that serve no discernible economic purpose is one thing; reducing health-care benefits to poor children is something else entirely."
