what happened to Republican debt concerns?

[Deleted member 159002]

Republicans talked a lot about 'tightening our belts' and running the government like a family budget while we were trying to get out of the last recession. Now they've passed a tax cut that will increase the debt, at a time when the economy is already at full employment. What happened to the debt concerns?

 

[steveflynn]

Republicans talked a lot about 'tightening our belts' and running the government like a family budget while we were trying to get out of the last recession. Now they've passed a tax cut that will increase the debt, at a time when the economy is already at full employment. What happened to the debt concerns?

Those debt and deficit concerns, pretty clearly I'd say, only get brought up when Democrats are in power and when Republicans are in power they disappear.

 

[abiG]

 

[JosephDredd]

Grover fucking Norquist himself just assured everyone they were never against growing national debt.

 

[steveflynn]

Well, actually people should care. The Republican Party for years now has run on, ostensibly, being the fiscally responsible party and it's clear as day that when they get into office they're clearly the antithesis of being fiscally responsible. It's a clear bait and switch strategy that they utilize in order to win elections. Remember when the debt clock and not burdening our future generations in debt (as well as having a balanced budget amendment? ) were all concerns/issues that the GOP always used to bring up? There should be a fiscally responsible/prudent party to choose but the current GOP shouldn't be included as one.

 

[Terry Noonan]

No politician can balance a checkbook. They might be able to but are then reminded they need to earmark funds to their donors.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Vanished like a fart on the wind

 

[Deleted member 159002]

Those debt and deficit concerns, pretty clearly I'd say, only get brought up when Democrats are in power and when Republicans are in power they disappear.

It's crazy. There are times when increasing the debt is good policy. You don't balance a budget during a freakin recession. Debts should be paid down when the economy is strong. The GOP position on fiscal policy has been the exact opposite of what it should be.

 

[tonni]

The black guy left office

 

[ShoelessRye]

Debt concerns are only when there is a Democrat in the WH and the GOP is trying to force them to have to cut Social Security and Medicare. Obama actually almost fell for it in his "Grand Bargain" talk with Boehner, but House Freedom Caucus/Tea Party nutters actually blew it up because any deal making with Obama was considered a total sell out.

 

[whougonnacall]

Anti Tax and spend became pro reduce tax and still spend

 

[National Acrobat]

They got elected

 

[djacobox372]

Talk is cheap, history tells us that democrats are the only ones that lower deficits. Reagan, Bush Sr. Bush JR, and now Trump all started office with shrinking deficits and immediately increased them.

Carter, Clinton and Obama all started office with rising deficits and immediately lowered them.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Republicans talked a lot about 'tightening our belts' and running the government like a family budget while we were trying to get out of the last recession. Now they've passed a tax cut that will increase the debt, at a time when the economy is already at full employment. What happened to the debt concerns?

Yeah, there as consistently committed to avoiding debt as Democrats are to avoiding war. No matter the rhetoric, it's always business as usual.

 

[Madmick]

Republicans talked a lot about 'tightening our belts' and running the government like a family budget while we were trying to get out of the last recession. Now they've passed a tax cut that will increase the debt, at a time when the economy is already at full employment. What happened to the debt concerns?

Hi, I'm still here. Sorry, I can't speak for the Trumpets. They don't believe in anything but White Nationalism.

 

[wonderbread]

Republicans talked a lot about 'tightening our belts' and running the government like a family budget while we were trying to get out of the last recession. Now they've passed a tax cut that will increase the debt, at a time when the economy is already at full employment. What happened to the debt concerns?

They are only concerns when they are looking for votes... Then it doesn't matter. Neither party really gives a fuck about the country.

 

[panamaican]

They boosted the debt so that they could have a stronger argument for "entitlement reform", which is just a euphemism for cutting funding to those programs and not actually reforming them.

 

[ShoelessRye]

They boosted the debt so that they could have a stronger argument for "entitlement reform", which is just a euphemism for cutting funding to those programs and not actually reforming them.

Problem being they set Democrats up with an easy push back given they added $1.5T to give tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations.

I mean it won't stop Republicans from trying as Orrin Hatch is saying there is no money to fund CHIP, which is like $8B for 10 years to provide health insurance for kids but give $1.5T to millionaires and billion dollar corporations.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

The gop strategy of lying is more evident than ever.

All these people do is lie, lie, lie and eventually they lie so much and for so long that people start believing their bullshit.

This is one of their main strategies. If you lie enough it becomes truth. The examples of this are endless. Trickle down lie has been peddled for 30+ years. And it fucking works. People eat it up

 

[VivaRevolution]

The Chamber of Commerce, oops I meant RNC, is a bunch of lying con men, that is what happened.