The budgets produced by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, and the votes in the Republican controlled House adopting them, are reframing the 2012 elections. This year’s elections are now defined in one corner by the spending, entitlement, and tax reforms in Ryan’s budget, and in the other corner by the spending, deficits, and tax increases in President Obama’s budgets.
Through those budgets, and the votes taken in the House and the Senate in this Congress, Republicans are establishing a record of cutting spending and taxes, while Democrats are establishing a record of refusing to cut spending, and raising taxes.
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