Burn, baby, burn
Today's Republicans are arsonists. They are burning our government down and bragging about it. Our government is close to a shutdown due to Republican intransigence and incompetence. That is just fine with the party at war with America because it views our government as the enemy.
The GOP tax plan will add, conservatively, $1.5 trillion to the national debt.
That is the estimate using dynamic scoring. (Dynamic scoring is fantasy math that doesn't use actual math, but instead uses fantasy land predictions.)
Professional economists say the bill will raise taxes on everyone making less than $70,000 a year, while giving a massive break to those making more than $5 million a year. The breaks for average people start phasing out the first year and expire while the breaks for industry and the rich start phasing in the first year and remain permanent.
This tax plan will automatically remove $25 billion from the Medicare fund. This happens automatically when the debt soars as the GOP bill ensures it will. This is part of the bill even though it's not written down. It's called a "starve the beast" strategy, and every GOP representative votes for the strategy every time.
Basically, they explode the debt. Then they say, "Look, we now have to cut entitlements."
Today's GOP offers nothing that helps the people. Children go hungry because of GOP strategies and "principles."
People suffer and die because of GOP "principles."
Then Republican voters bend over and say, "Thank you, sir. May I have another?"
Brian Rhoades
Genesee
Future looks bleak
After ranting and raving for eight years against deficit spending, Republicans are now embracing it with gleeful eagerness. President Trump's tax cut encumbers America with more than $1.5 trillion of debt. Deficit spending makes sense when the economy is floundering and needing an economic boost, as it did in 2009.
But it makes no sense when the economy is booming as it is now.
In 2012, the state of Kansas implemented tax cuts very similar to what the Republicans just passed for the nation. It was a dismal failure. The Kansas economy tanked, expected revenues never materialized and the Kansas Legislature had to pass huge tax increases in 2016 just to keep the state afloat.
Trump's tax cut puts America on the same course as Kansas. The economy will stall as corporations and billionaires hoard their new-found money overseas.
The deficit will cripple us with unstable markets and foreign debt.
Within five years, affordable health care, Social Security and Medicare will be eliminated, and the super-rich will become ultra-rich.
By then, the temporary working-class tax cut will have expired and then you will be forced to shoulder the new tax burden.
Paul Oman
Clarkston
