Trumps tax plan piles on more than $2 trillion in red ink

[UCmeNdc]

Deficits do not matter when the GOP is in charge of government spending.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/republicans-once-railed-against-deficits-but-trumps-tax-plan-piles-on-more-than-2-trillion-in-red-ink/

[applegrove]

1. They want the country to be bankrupt the next time democrats get

in power. They always do.

[democratisphere]

3. They have done this over and over again since 1981 when Reagan took office.

[Cosmocat]

6. Why do we have to suffer for the fucking stupidity of

1) Their "base"
2) The "middle" who chew their cuds, babble "they are both the same" and either go along with this endless repeat of republican fuck wittery or sit it out and enable it.

[workinclasszero]

8. Yup

And then they blame the democrats for their destruction of the economy.

It worked well against President Obama sad to say.

Of course the lyin MSM goes along with it so it works.

[democratisphere]

2. I remember when redumbliCONs we're trying to sell the idea that debt

was a good thing. redumbliCONs are some of the most destructive creatures that have ever walked the Earth.

[unblock]

5. as much as they claim to hate a deficit, they positively freaked out at the concept of a surplus

they hated the clinton surplus so much they actually had alan greenspan testify about all the supposedly disastrous consequences of actually paying off the debt.

that's right, after clinton paid down a small amount of the national debt, and they freaked out about the theoretical possibility of what would happen if they paid down 100% of the debt without changing policies.

they used that "nightmarish" fantasy as an excuse to push through a ridiculous tax cut for the rich so that we wouldn't have to see surpluses ever again.


however much they say they hate deficits, they hate surpluses more.

[Cosmocat]

7. The stupid in this country is mind bending

all of the 90s, these assholes screaming deficit and the end of the world because of it ...

Then, they get POTUS with a balanced budget and all it took was their brainwashing conservative media to babble "YOU CAN'T TRUST GOVERNMENT WITH A SURPLUS" and that was what their dullards started parroting.

Toss us common folks a couple hundred dollar tax "rebate" to grease the wheels.

NOW, with the budget in the red ...

BIG TAX CUTS, from a POTUS who ... won't release his tax returns.

WE don't, but this country deserves what is coming.

[MiniMe]

4. No problem, they will just cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare nt