...dealing with idiots on our own side is very frustrating. Don Surber likes the idea of a $5,000 dividend check for taxpayers, and so do I. But the thing I really want to underscore in his article is this bit of drivel by House Speaker Mike Johnson:
House Speaker Mike Johnson told CPAC, “I mean, politically, that would be great for us, but if you think about our core principles, fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives. That’s our brand. And we have a $36 trillion federal debt. We have a giant deficit that we’re contending with. I think we need to pay down the credit card.”
When a Republican who has been in DC for 8 years talks about our core principles, he means his donors. Mike just began his fifth term in Congress. His brand is a national debt that will be $40 trillion by the end of the year. It is time to stop pretending there is any virtue left.
Yeah, exactly. If Mike Johnson thinks that fiscal responsibility has been the GOP's "brand" for the last couple of decades, then how does he explain that it's been about as successful as K-Mart? And why does fiscal responsibility always equate to "taxpayers last"?
with a $2T savings estimate, which is probably wishful thinking, an annual budget shortfall over $1T and a $36T debt it's probably a bad idea to give away inflationary $5k check; if they actually save a little more than $1T that gets rid of the budget deficit, but does nothing to lower the debt;there are proposed tax breaks which will possibly lower tax revenue so they will need to put through a lower budget where we don't need to borrow, t; a booming economy would make it work.
ReplyDeleteOk, I'll settle for $2500.
DeleteI don't care to leave rescued and salvaged funds in the hands of Congress -- they're too handsy with money.
ReplyDeleteIf it gets applied to the deficit, I'm golden with that. But sending a substantial check (i.e., a lot more than the $200 "gift" Obama mailed out) would be a reasonable way to let the voters know things are changing.
I agree. Failing that, I'll make them one last offer: free Bojangles sausage biscuits once a week for the next six months.
DeleteIn his defense, he's not really on our side.
ReplyDeleteI guess I could go either way. But, if they want to stimulate the economy, I promise I'll spend the money in the most economy stimulating way I can think of.
ReplyDeleteI would be ok with this, if they only gave it to people who actually paid income taxes, and the amount could not exceed the amount of taxes they paid.
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