Because doing so would be a political disaster, and likely an economic one, too. How’s that for a reason?
Your understanding of the Washington budget process must have been formed in the Early Pleistocene period.
What we have right now from Obama is the first meaningful reduction in the growth rate of Social Security benefits since the program was founded. You want to leave that on the table in favor of an absolutely swingeing set of tax hikes? WHY? WHat do you love so much about tax hikes?
Lemmie get this crystal clear. You are willing to accept a tax increase while the budget ceiling hits Saturn? You re willing to keep rolling over for each and every created disaster to postpone the one right behind it?
Does it penetrate your oh so modern economic expertise that doing this crap every few months results in Obama spending more and more, the GOP giving him more and more of YOUR MONEY, and that you are saying “Please sir, can I enjoy another bigger sX!t sandwich?
Are you really that historically ignorant of the past several years or just a die hard GOP fan? And yes, that is a serious question.