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Sequestration: Our Military is Due for Downsizing

Now let's look at the Washington Post's blogger who says he writes "from a liberal perspective," Greg Sargent. On Wednesday he went at the Republican position on sequestration, wielding a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. The report found that the s...

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Published in:Foreign Policy in Focus 2013, p.N_A
Main Author: Pemberton, Miriam
Format: Report
Language:English
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Summary:Now let's look at the Washington Post's blogger who says he writes "from a liberal perspective," Greg Sargent. On Wednesday he went at the Republican position on sequestration, wielding a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. The report found that the single most important cause of increased income inequality in recent years is the favored tax treatment given to capital gains and stock dividends - i.e. what the rich have used to get richer. Gut the military? That's what the Joint Chiefs of Staffhave been saying any chance they get. Sequestration would "invite aggression," says lingering Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. It will "put the nation at greater risk of coercion," says the Joint Chiefs Chair, Martin Dempsey. When asked at a recent congressional hearing which nation might coerce us, though, he couldn't say.
ISSN:1524-1939