Did it also wildly inflate government spending in several key areas?
Were there even net spending cuts at all? Completely discount the whole "decrease income" bit, just - did it even actually cut spending at all?
I don't recall exactly.
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And what is the President's plan for cutting spending?
I, at least, wasn't saying anything about the President. Just disagreeing with the notion that he proposed a plan that would balance the budget... eventually. (If you don't increase income, and you don't decrease spending, and you aren't currently balancing the budget, it's not going to happen)
I'm pretty sure people didn't think it was 'extreme' in the way you implied. Rather, his methodology for a achieving what amounted to non-balanced budget was extreme. If I proposed to balance the budget by exploding orphans, I think one could quite reasonably be considered extreme. However, I don't think you could say it "obviously [...] did not go far enough.".
Again, there was the progressive caucus plan that went much further and actually DID balance the budget, but it clearly wasn't considered "extreme" by the liberals.
It just seems like a really nonsensical argument against the Democrats, anyway.
Also, there was a report posted TWICE since you showed up that effectively made the argument that tax cuts don't help the economy - you don't even NEED to google that!