Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine, a former governor of Virginia, said Tuesday night at the DNC that Democrats, not Republicans, should be trusted with the task of “fixing our budget,” reminding the audience that it was Republicans who ran up the national debt under President George W. Bush.
The last time they were in charge, the other side turned a record surplus into a massive deficit with two wars, trillions in tax breaks, loopholes and entitlements they wouldn’t pay for. Now, they’re pushing budget-busting tax cuts and economy-busting spending cuts.
To pay for their plan, they’d slash middle-class tax breaks, raising taxes on the middle class. They’d turn Medicare into a voucher system. And rather than raise taxes on the wealthy by a single penny, they’d put thousands of defense jobs at risk. Let’s be clear: That’s not fiscally responsible. That’s fiscally reckless.
