Current Events > Right on schedule, Republicans suddenly start caring about the deficit again

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/right-on-schedule-republicans-pretend-to-care-about-deficits-again/ 2021/01/21/a749e500-5c17-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html

Its almost like clockwork. As soon as a Democrat enters the White House, Republicans pretend to care about deficits again.
The one thing that concerns me that nobody seems to be talking about anymore is the massive amount of debt that we continue to rack up as a nation, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) complained during a confirmation hearing this week for Treasury Secretary-nominee Janet Yellen. For me, he continued,that is a huge warning sign on the horizon, the fact that we have an ever-growing deficit, an ever-growing debt and no apparent interest in taking the steps that are necessary to address it.

His colleague Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) likewise carped that U.S. deficit levels are frightening. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) piled on, saying that waiting for interest rates to rise to indicate that debts are unsustainable would be too late.
And so Republicans laid the groundwork for blocking the Biden administrations request for more covid-19 fiscal relief, on the grounds that further spending is not merely unnecessary but also irresponsible. Despite ongoing economic and public health needs.
These foul-weather fiscal hawks neglect to mention, of course, that the GOPs prized 2017 tax cuts added nearly $2 trillion to deficits back when the economy was doing okay.
Nor did they note that again, before the coronavirus pandemic the Republican-controlled Senate passed and President Donald Trump signed spending bills that added another $2 trillion to deficits. That was on top of what the country had already been expected to borrow over a decade, according to estimates from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

There's more in the article but I can't be bothered to copy and paste the whole thing while on mobile.

Anyways



Wish there was a legal way of telling Republicans to "Shut the fuck up" in regards to the deficit after the past 4 years

Also ffs wapo get better links

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wackyteen posted...

Wish there was a legal way of telling Republicans to "Shut the fuck up" in regards to the deficit after the past 4 years

telling someone to shut the fuck up isn't illegal though

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so they agree taxes should go back up for the rich? to help with the deficit

Doom_Art posted...

telling someone to shut the fuck up isn't illegal though

I meant legally.

Like legal recourse

Like if they bring it up on the senate floor or something, they get sent to time out or something (bit of sarcasm here)

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Raikuro posted...

so they agree taxes should go back up for the rich? to help with the deficit

obviously not

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The GOP are a bunch of fucking assholes and clowns, and wish that shitstain of a political party would go extinct

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austerity is for the good times

DarthAragorn posted...

The GOP are a bunch of fucking assholes and clowns, and wish that shitstain of a political party would go extinct

They're currently eating themselves alive so perhaps your wish will come true one day

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