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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: corbe on May 24, 2017, 09:11:24 pm
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Trump and GOP make government taxier and spendier
by David Leach • May 24, 2017
Yesterday, the Trump administration released its budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. Needless to say, there’s already been a lot of hype and hysteria about what it does or doesn’t do.
A casual review of the proposal shows that it contains some good news in the area of budget cuts to wasteful and unnecessary federal bureaucracies. But as is usually the case with Trump, everything good comes with something bad because these cuts are temporary; they allow the bureaucracies to stay open for business and allows for spending to rise again in the future.
So much for the campaign promise to shut down agencies like the EPA and Department of Education.
The Trump spin machine has quickly pointed out that his budget contains an alleged $3.6 Trillion in budget cuts over the next decade. Besides the fact that only in Washington can you increase spending and call it a budget cut, the reality is that what we get is expensive big-government programs that will only get more expensive in the future. For example, Trump’s budget includes Ivanka’s Paid Family Leave entitlement at a cost of $28 Billion.
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http://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-gop-taxes-spending/?utm_content=social&utm_medium=@federalists_usa&utm_source=thenewamericana.com&utm_campaign=thefederalistparty.org (http://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-gop-taxes-spending/?utm_content=social&utm_medium=@federalists_usa&utm_source=thenewamericana.com&utm_campaign=thefederalistparty.org)
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Trump and GOP make government taxier and spendier
by David Leach • May 24, 2017
. . . only in Washington can you increase spending and call it a budget cut, the reality is that what we get is expensive big-government programs that will only get more expensive in the future.
One of the oldest dodges in the book: you reduce the spending increase rate and get away with calling it a spending "cut."
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Which is why I continue to laugh at those who keep insisting that the way to stop Democrats and Big Government is to elect more Republicans.
Practicing insanity is a way of life for most people.
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Which is why I continue to laugh at those who keep insisting that the way to stop Democrats and Big Government is to elect more Republicans.
Practicing insanity is a way of life for most people.
It's insanity if they didn't know better.
But they can't say nobody told them . . .
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zxG4YNGBL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
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It's insanity if they didn't know better.
But they can't say nobody told them . . .
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zxG4YNGBL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
Cognitive dissonance with a healthy helping of Normalcy Bias.