Reporting from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s 2012 Fiscal Summit, The Washington Post‘s Susy Khimm writes, “Democrats talked constantly about how they should be talking about entitlements. Republicans reiterated their position that they won’t talk taxes.”
As Khimm does note later on, this isn’t exactly true. Republicans talk about tax reform all the time. They want to close loopholes, broaden the tax base, lower the rates, and keep revenue at its historical average. The chart below, produced by The Heritage Foundation, shows why: Our federal government is suffering from an entitlement spending problem not a taxing problem.
