“The better course is to stop sending the wealthy benefits they do not need, and stop providing them so many tax preferences that distort our economy and do little or nothing to foster growth.”
This part sounded kinda like the democrat line.
That depends. For instance, if you think that the mortgage interest deduction is sacrosanct instead of dumb deduction that favors the rich and helped to contribute to a housing bubble, then I suppose that could be a Democrat-sounding line.