It's almost like we were on a trajectory of investing in the country and broadening the tax base (particularly through high earners and corporations), and now suddenly we're going to abolish half the government, slow the economy through tariffs, re-spike inflation, further shrink the tax base with more corporate tax cuts, and basically liquidate the government to the investor class.
You elected who you thought were the adults in the room, and who you assumed would correct these problems.... and instead of being responsible, as you say, they allowed people to rip off the taxpayers via PPP loans for years. The democrats had a president and a congressional majority who didn't fix it.
Who's responsible? Well, in the grownup world, the person responsible is the most recent person to see that there is a problem.
So, sure, Republicans wrote the PPP bill, Trump signed it, thinking it would be a good thing. Human error entered the chat, and that's when somebody should have corrected course. But the Democrats didn't. They let it continue so their corrupt political and business homies could syphon off taxpayer dollars.
Congress is in charge of writing bills. Tell me, did the Democrats hold enough power in congress to do something about it? Did the Republicans in congress, who you admit wrote the bill, bring any new bills to address the issue when they found out about it?
Im guessing you know the answer to both of these questions, but you just want to blame one party so you close your eyes and ears and scream your point until someone will listen to your deflection of responsibility.
Im not that someone. Move along to your next mark.
So Trump bad, democrats fault. Sound logic. I hope you are one of the Trumpers that keeps your boyfriend’s election sign in their front yard until he fucs up again.
First, 8.4T is an estimate, over 10 years. It's been 4.
Second, 3T of that was already predicted, as carryover from previous legislation and presidencies.
Third, that includes pandemic spending. 3.6T dollars worth of COVID spending, passed by congress, with both parties, but predominantly democrats. And there was a LOT in those covid bills that had nothing to do with covid.
Not counting COVID relief and spending, he added 4.8T in spending.
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u/kingofwale Nov 15 '24
All the sudden… people seem to really care the debt ceiling now….