Nominated for Best Metaphor

by Prometheus 6
March 9, 2005 - 8:32am.
on Economics

...is the Washington Post Editorials.

Lawmakers are preparing to unveil a budget resolution today that would provide for speedy passage this year (with amendments limited, and no filibuster allowed) of $70 billion to $100 billion in tax cuts. Given the tax cut fever of recent years, this number is said to be a sign of restraint, of a majority chastened, finally, by the mountainous national debt. Perhaps so, but this is the restraint of a dieter who is accustomed to scarfing down three pies a day and wants applause for cutting back to one.