Addressing debt would be Republicans' top priority if they take back House

[left-of-center2012]

BALTIMORE - As House Republicans kicked off a 48-hour retreat here Thursday afternoon to plot their path back to the majority, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters the GOP’s top priority if it retakes the chamber in 2020 would be to address the national debt.

“First thing we would do is make sure our debt is taken care of,” the California Republican said.
“This is continuing to grow.”

McCarthy’s remarks came the same day the Treasury Department announced that the U.S. budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion in the first 11 months of the fiscal year.

Trump’s inclination to push off addressing the deficit was on display earlier this summer when he urged Republicans to support a bipartisan budget deal to raise the statutory discretionary spending caps by $324 billion over the next two fiscal years.
“There is always plenty of time to cut,” he tweeted at the time.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/mccarthy-debt-republicans-priorities

[John Fante]

1. Arsonists to Address Fire They Started

[SharonAnn]

11. Just like Paul Ryan and the GOP House did?

[Wounded Bear]

2. Yeah, I'm sure they'll be correcting their personal debt problems...

top priority.

[spanone]

3. What bullshit.

[unblock]

4. They won't care about the debt until Democrats are in charge

This is complete b.s. they're shoveling to make fiscal conservatives think they'll do something about the debt.

But they won't do a damn thing as long as it's republicans who are creating the damn debt, particularly with tax cuts for the rich.

[Midnight Writer]

5. When GOP talks of addressing the debt, they mean cutting Social Security and Medicare.

I don't understand why Democrats do not make hay from this. Plenty in Republican leadership have made public statements about this.

[superpatriotman]

9. +1000

That (and more tax cuts for the rich) are the only ways the mind of a right winger can solve the debt

[tymorial]

6. It's like an anti vaxxer talking about the spread of measles nt

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[Lochloosa]

7. We don't have a debt problem, we have a revenue problem.

[Blue_true]

8. Addressing debt.

Those mouthbreathers are something else. Their image of cutting debt is to gut social programs and Social Security and Medicare, while increasing tax cuts to the rich.

President Obama actually expanded Medicaid and reduced the annual deficit from $1.3 trillion to $580 million. How did he do that? He left social programs, Social Security and Medicare alone and rolled back the Bush tax cuts to the rich.

If republicans were really interested in reducing debt, they would work with democrats to increase taxes on the rich and rich companies.

[uponit7771]

10. I believe them, they would address the nations debt by hiking taxes on the middle class and lowering

... them on the rich.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. They'll address it alright - stick it in an envelope and address it to.....

the next Democrat to be elected president. Same song and dance we've heard many times before. Reagan, W, etc...

Some call it the Two Santa Clause economic theory........

Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years
by Thom Hartmann

Link: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/01/26/two-santa-clauses-or-how-republican-party-has-conned-america-thirty-years

(WARNING: Photos of Rethugs)

KY..........

[W_HAMILTON]

13. LOL

[struggle4progress]

14. lol

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. Can ya'll please put the satire disclaimer when posting Onion/Borowitz type shit? nt