Do the American people know this?

[Beachnutt]

Rethugs passed an unfunded $2.3 TRILLION corporate tax cut under trump, then raised the debt ceiling (with NO preconditions) 3 times while ballooning the deficit, and NOW under Biden they’re refusing to pay THEIR bills?

The people need to know this.

[maxsolomon]

1. the Memory Hole

this is what Dems were screaming when it was passed.

but Mericans are flibberdigibbets who are too busy murdering each other to remember.

[ancianita]

11. And the Media Hole.

[FoxNewsSucks]

14. "flibberdigibbet"

someone at work used that term last week. I had to look it up.

Never heard it before, now twice in just a few days. . .

[Ilsa]

34. I first heard it from Oscar

and Hammerstein:

How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!

From The Sound of Music.

[2naSalit]

2. Typical behavior for them, though.

[Irish_Dem]

3. This has been the pattern for a long time.

The GOP robs the US Treasury blind and then blames the Dems and makes them
fix it.

[LoisB]

4. I think not enough Americans know this. I believe many people are under the misconception that

raising the debt ceiling allows for more spending, not for paying the bills already accrued. I think they think it is like getting an increased credit line on one's credit card...now you can spend more.

[BComplex]

8. This is mostly due to FUX NOOZE propaganda, and LACK of "news".

Until they shut down fux nooze as a terrorist organization, which I believe it is, we're going to have really uninformed, angry assholes shooting everyone they have an issue with.

[LoisB]

9. I am afraid you are right.

[CrispyQ]

5. A few do, a lot forgot, but even more never knew. -nt

[Blue Owl]

6. Those fuckers

[BComplex]

7. And they need to know it as succinctly as you stated it.

You said it, Beachnutt!

[Redleg]

10. Redleg's First Rule of Political Behavior

1. American voters have short memories.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

36. No, the#1 rule

Is that a shocking number of Americans have no brains.

[dchill]

12. I SURE they saw it on Fox!

[onecaliberal]

13. Sadly the fascist media is busy trying to prop up their lyin king.

[Quanto Magnus]

15. McCarthy has been

claiming they made cuts with those debt ceiling raises....

Unfortunately, he's intentionally muddying the waters to give him leverage now and no one is calling him on that...

[Warpy]

16. Only if they ignore broadcast news and get their news in print

and preferably from multiple sources.

No, the noise blatting out of the TV set didn't inform them. Maybe Maddow or some of the others on MSNBC mentioned it, but that's as far as it went.

Oh, they saw their own tax cuts and rejoiced. Nobody told them about the fine print on those, either, and they have now mostly ended.

[lark2]

17. The facts are there for all to see and know.

Some are so blind they cannot recognize the truth - including all MAGATS in that bucket.

[WarGamer]

18. Unfortunately...

I think the VAST majority of Americans think that the US prints cash when it needs it and that's that.

I think you'd shock a chunk of the population to tell them otherwise.

[Moostache]

19. You could fill the Grand Canyon with things the American public should know but does not.

That is 100% by design to promote and promulgate minority rule in a country that demographically and ideologically HATES one of the two parties and tolerates the other.

In any sane universe, Donald Trump would not be a viable political candidate, he would be an impeached and convicted traitor/ex-president, barred from ever again holding office or trust under the United States and in very real peril of conviction for seditious conspiracy and life in prison sentencing.

[OneBro]

20. Are democrats not screaming it from the rooftops?

It isn’t a complicated issue as you so succinctly described it, but what little I’ve heard from our Democratic leadership on public radio leaves me thinking the public does NOT know about that background information.

I don’t watch tv, so I was just hoping above hope that our messaging is better there.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Biden's press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has mentioned it (probably several times)

(the above was done May 2, 2023)

[Ray Bruns]

22. Anyone who has been paying attention for the past ten years knows this. So, no

most Americans don’t know this.

[AllaN01Bear]

23. ronald ray gun slashed and burned ca . took us 30 years to clean up his mess.

rs . cut everything . make a mess of everything. then dems have to clean the sandbox. move along, nothing to see here .

[housecat]

25. He was worse than most people reaiize

[housecat]

24. The people need to hear this over and over and over before it's too late

[Rebl2]

26. Yes I

remember that republicans had no plans for a way to pay for the tax cuts they passed.

[BigmanPigman]

27. They've done this BS for 30 years.

And the moronic Americans do not have a memory of a gnat. Every fucking time a GQP is POTUS the Dems rescue the economy but the near sighted GQP idiots who vote either don't realize it (purposeful ignorance) or they choose to dismiss it.

[Mblaze]

28. Republicans are

The dead beat dads of America.

[modrepub]

29. Lot's Of People Know

I usually scroll through article comments and am (pleasantly) surprised at how may folks chime in how Republic tax cuts account for a lot of the debt. It's the M$M that can't seem to ask any Republic representative about how their tax cuts contributed to the debt problems our country faces. The only thing that seems (on their) table is cuts in spending.

In a more perfect world, Congressionally passed tax cuts or spending would be automatically rescinded if tax receipts couldn't pay for them.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

37. There's a reason for that

It's the M$M that can't seem to ask any Republic representative about how their tax cuts contributed to the debt problems our country faces.

It's not that they can't ask, but because they won't. Not as long as the MSM are in the income bracket to benefit from those very tax cuts.

People forget that these talking head traitors are among the 1%.

They will never speak up about it, because they won't stop that sweet, sweet tax cut $$$$$$ rolling in for them.

[bagimin]

30. k& highly recommended

[Sogo]

31. File this under "Things Fox News Won't Tell You."

[liberalla]

32. Excellent! You are so right - People need to know!

Thank you!

[usonian]

33. K&R

[flying_wahini]

35. We should have a thread in DU about all the things the Repugs don't know...

It would go on forever and ever….

[Roy Rolling]

38. This👇

"

[Beachnutt]

39. ☝️Exactly

[Justice matters.]

40. But, but, but... look, there are hundreds of new millionaires...

and a few* new billionaires so that's the proof our Corrupt Capitalist system works

* out of over 330 million citizens...

[calimary]

41. You've simplified it clearly enough that we can ALL use it!

Thanks!