Republicans Reveal Trump Tax Plan Will Cost US $4.5T (opens in new tab)

Isn’t the idea that taxpayers have more money to spend in a free market way instead of it being wastefully spent by the government on weird projects? And that leads to growth in GDP?

> Republicans have lost all right to claim that they are fiscally conservative.

They lost that decades ago. Anyone who believe[d/s] otherwise wasn't paying attention.

When the rationale for cutting spending is that the debt is out of hand and that our deficits are unsustainable (read many HN comments over the last few weeks), it sort of flies in the face of all reason to turn around and increase the deficit by $2.5T in year 0.

In fact, I would go so far to say all the talk was an outright liar liar bold faced lie of epic proportions.

It’s like catching the guy from an AA meeting at the bar an hour later with a bottle of Jack and him saying he’s only drinking it to keep it out of the hands of children.

Either we need to get deficit spending under control, or we don’t. There is no middle ground.

These guys have always been hypocrites. Scream bloody murder when out of power, spend like drunken sailors while in power. Never fails. 30+ years, always the same.