tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post8383438110149054272..comments2024-03-28T03:24:05.678-04:00Comments on NAKED KEYNESIANISM: "In Bernie, I Trust" - Sanders Goes on Offense Against Austerity with 'Progressive Budget Blueprint'Matias Vernengohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09521604894748538215noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595404115121834255.post-71703331371319126332013-11-15T00:31:28.162-05:002013-11-15T00:31:28.162-05:00So in other words (from what you've quoted), r...So in other words (from what you've quoted), raise taxes and lower spending. This is 'against' austerity, how? It looks to me like just another 'progressive' variation of fiscal tightening. Any of these specific proposals might be laudable in themselves, but unless there's some plan for matching items of increased taxes and lower spending with offsetting lower taxes elsewhere and/or higher spending elsewhere, in order to avoid the fiscal contraction implied by them, it ought to be dead on arrival.Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06230465687035823565noreply@blogger.com