Make America's deficits great again
By Desmond Lachman, Opinion Contributor — 07/09/19 03:00 PM EDT
Two and a half years into his term, President Trump has little to show for breaking with erstwhile Republican Party orthodoxy on trade and budget policy.
Indeed, far from delivering on his promise to cut America’s trade deficit, Trump has presided over a ballooning deficit that’s on pace to be some 25 percent higher than when he took office. This is happening at a time when the budget deficit is widening and the country’s public debt is well on its way to exceeding 90 percent of GDP.
Sadly, the Trump administration seems unfazed by the country’s deteriorating long-run financial position. It shows no indication of correcting policy course to put the economy on a sounder long-run economic footing. This makes it all too likely that the country’s incipient twin deficit problem will only worsen in the remaining 18 months of Trump’s first term. That in turn will further mortgage the country’s economic future and diminish the U.S. dollar’s attractiveness as an international reserve currency.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/452045-make-americas-deficits-great-again
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On the mark.
The abysmal ignorance of many regarding the R party is astonishing as these
insist the R's are upholders of conservative principle, a hysterical assertion.
From day 1, the R's have been the Party:
* of centralized and expansive Government in contrast to States Rights,
* of duties, excises and tariffs rather than free trade,
* of corporate and personal taxation.
Trumpet is just another in their endless queue of economic illiterates who
will spend every nickel and dime he gets his hands on.
