Democrats in the Senate finally have their own budget plan. It would reduce debt by $4 trillion over 10 years, largely with extra taxes on the nation's top 1 percent earners rather than through excessive cuts in programs for the poor, education, health, and the elderly. If only this plan had appeared sooner...

The Saner Budget Fix

For long months ranters on the right
Have shaped the budget making fight
While Dems seemed strangely out of touch
Their only plea: "Don't cut too much."

Now Dems in Congress have a plan
That transcends the no taxes ban
It trillions trims without the gore
From stiffing kids, the old, the poor.

The budget burden pain it switches
From poor and middle to the richest
Polls show most people think this saner
Politically it's a no-brainer

Alas Republicans have sworn
No pain by rich folks will be borne
So o'er the edge what now can halt
Our fearful plunge into default?

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