GOP budget flummery
Duncan Black over at Eschaton posts:
“One possibility I haven’t seen raised elsewhere is that Trump intends to announce massive tariffs lasting years, the Republicans will “book” this revenue when they do their budget bill, cut taxes on rich people accordingly, and then just erase (some of) the tariffs.
“Some budget shenanigans are above my pay grade, so I don’t know if this makes any sense.”
GOP SOP. Pass a budget that explodes the deficit. Then jump up and down pointing at the deficit and demand spending cuts. That’s all they know.
“One possibility I haven’t seen raised elsewhere is that Trump intends to announce massive tariffs lasting years, the Republicans will “book” this revenue when they do their budget bill, cut taxes on rich people accordingly, and then just erase (some of) the tariffs.
“Some budget shenanigans are above my pay grade, so I don’t know if this makes any sense.”
GOP SOP. Pass a budget that explodes the deficit. Then jump up and down pointing at the deficit and demand spending cuts. That’s all they know.
You have got that right Joel–the GOP is a one trick pony