Republicans Mum on Paying for Trump Agenda

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/11/21/republicans-mum-paying-trump-agenda/

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President-elect Donald Trump “intends to launch a broad legislative agenda that includes cutting taxes, rolling back the Affordable Care Act, growing the military and rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure,” the Washington Post reports.

“The question is how congressional Republicans, after eight years of apocalyptic warnings about the growing national debt, will respond to the dire fiscal implications of proposals that would likely send the deficit soaring.”

“Taken together, the Trump agenda stands to drain hundreds of billions of dollars a year from the federal balance sheet. His proposed tax cut alone, according to independent analysts, could cost the Treasury as much as $7.2 trillion over a decade.”


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[guillaumeb]

1. If Trump is a one term President, and if the Democrats take back the White House in 2020,

the GOP can then campaign on cutting the massive (GOP engendered) deficit by cutting social programs.

[applegrove]

2. Which is why they never govern fiscally responsibly. They always want to trash

the economic outlook while enriching the rich part of their base.

[guillaumeb]

3. And because of the US conservative corporate media,

this plan is never really exposed to those who ignore politics except after Labor Day of election years.

Proving that Lincoln was correct when he said that you can fool some of the people all of the time. Apparently a solid 24% of the registered voters.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Well,anyone who has been

paying attention,and those are most likely we in the minority,have been telling the Nation how this is going to be paid for. Watch the striping of Wages,Benefits,Health Insurance as well as Pensions. And that is just the start. Throw in Wage Freezes and Seniority protections for Federal Agencies as well as Federal Contractors. Watch for the death of Medicare and Social Security as we know it.