Tri2gohard wrote:
RangerGress wrote:
He would have our country try a lot harder to live within it's means and that's probably my primary voting issue. Our nation spends a lot of time worrying about problems, real and imagined. But, imo, the problem that is really gonna kick our ass is our deficit. Only Rand Paul and the guy from W. VA seems to be serious about restraining our spending. To all other politicians, spending restraint seems to be but a political stick to occasionally whack the opposition with and hope no one spots the incredible hypocrisy of the criticism.
Leaving Manchin out of it for a second, please square this assertion with Rand Paul's vote for Trump's tax cut relative to the deficit.
Thanks.
When Trump pushed for and passed his tax cuts, I wrote at the time what a mistake it was, because “the time to fix your roof is when the sun is shining.”
Well, it started pissing with rain in 2020 and we have an even bigger hole in the roof now. And now really is the time we need to provide the economy with a huge amount of stimulus, because without it we could see a decade or more of lost growth and that would actually drive our debt-to-GDP level much higher over the long term if we’re timid about spending now.