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Mocking Democrats’ Deficit Concerns, GOP Passes Permanently Unfunded Tax Cuts
On Friday, House Republicans, led by Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee Ryan, passed the first in a long line of
permanent and unfunded tax cuts for the rich he admits will blow up the
deficit. This is the same deficit Ryan has spent the past six years
screaming is the reason the nation is so desperately broke and in debt,
that slashing absolutely all domestic spending was an existential
necessity to the country’s short and long-term economic survival. In
fact, Republicans enacted austerity rules that included not one penny
for natural disaster relief unless they could cut an equal, or larger,
amount from domestic programs that benefit other Americans. It is why
there has been absolutely no spending on anything except the perpetual
war machine, still unfunded and in-place Bush tax cuts, and hundreds of
billions of dollars in church and oil subsidies.
Yesterday represented a remarkably Republican
turnaround and rapid return to Bush-era economic malfeasance; except
that Republican tax cuts are not only unfunded, they are permanent and
only benefit the largest corporations and the richest one-percent of
Americans. Ryan even took the opportunity prior to passing
deficit-increasing tax cuts to chastise and mock Democrats for
expressing their concern that the permanently-unfunded tax cuts will
permanently increase the deficit Republicans claim is destroying
America.
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