Dear Republicans: No More Fiscal Hypocrisy, Please - By Joe Conason

[DonViejo]

Nothing is more predictable than Republicans complaining about budget deficits and federal spending — as soon as a Democrat enters the White House.

Wasteful fiscal decisions, especially cutting taxes for their wealthiest donors, never trouble these self-proclaimed "conservatives" in the slightest. But let a liberal spend a few dollars on a hungry child's breakfast or a teacher's salary and suddenly their hair catches fire.

So now that their old friend Joe Biden is president, Senate Republicans are roaring with indignation over his restrained, sensible proposals to lift America out of the deep hole dug by former President Donald Trump. Once a fiscal hawk himself, Biden has tried to explain that spending more now is required to defeat the pandemic, maintain vital services, save our people from starving — and eventually pay down the debt.

Yes, the deficit and debt will increase first, a prospect that suddenly seems to instill panic among the Republicans. Perhaps they ought to have thought about fiscal issues back when Trump was slashing tax rates for corporations and the wealthiest.

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[elleng]

1. 'Perhaps they ought to have thought about fiscal issues back when Trump was slashing tax rates

for corporations and the wealthiest.'

[essaynnc]

2. We do have a choice.....

Raise taxes on those that can afford it, or....... eat the rich !

[Wounded Bear]

3. Yep, all them deficit hawks, rising like a phoenix out of the ashes of a Repub administration...

SSDD...same shit, different day.

[stopbush]

4. Note to Rs: it's only money

Pres Biden is asking for $2-trillion to help Americans survive the pandemic and its economic effects.

- he is not asking that a single American lose their life on a battlefield

- he is not asking that any family lose their livelihood

- he is not requiring that millions of Americans face eviction

- he is not asking that any American die from the complications of having inadequate healthcare

- he is not asking that the number of Americans contracting Covid continue to skyrocket

- he is not asking for the stock market to crash

He IS asking that we put the rescue on the nation’s credit card at a time of historically low interest rates, because the alternative is for all of the above to happen if Congress does not pass his relief and rescue package.

It’s only money. It’s not human life.

[CrispyQ]

5. Our side needs to capture the messaging on this mess.

Tax cuts are revenue cuts. It's like government taking a pay cut. So what do you want to give up for this? We never have this conversation. What we all know is that when tax cuts are passed, the poor and the lower/working/middle classes will be the ones asked to sacrifice. Never the rich. Never the corporations. Never the military. People are waiting in longer food lines than I've ever seen in my life & the GOP managed to include bigger tax exemptions for martini lunches in the relief bill. WTF? Where is our marketing department, all over that?

We need a marketing department, stat!

[UpInArms]

6. They rob the cookie jar, spend the rainy day funds

Giving themselves and their cronies steak and lobster ...

And then bitch when others need oatmeal