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McCain or Obama: Who's Pro-Growth?
Tweet Share on Facebook June 2, 2008 Comment (8)"Barack Obama is the pro-growth candidate," declares columnist Sebastian Mallaby in today's Washington Post. (Now I am assuming that Mallaby means this as a good thing. The growing anti-economic-growth movement, made up of extreme environmentalists, hand-wringing technophobes, and turn-back-the-clock globalization bashers, might well see it as an indictment.) Here are Mallaby's reasons for his Obama endorsement:
1) The GOP—and thus John McCain by extension—has little to offer but tax cuts. And, says Mallaby, given "the yawning budget deficit and the coming demographic crunch, tax cuts aren't affordable anyway."
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Attacking McCain's (Budget) Hawkishness
Tweet Share on Facebook June 2, 2008 Comment (3)Jonathan Chait of the New Republic rips John McCain as a phony budget hawk because he wants to cut taxes and has undue focus on earmarks. Here is just some of what Chait fails to understand.
1) Getting rid of earmarks saves money and helps change the spending culture in Washington. Earmarks are often held hostage as a way of forcing votes on other spending projects.
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