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Salviati

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7. While I agree that's certainly a byproduct of their plan...

Reply to ToadRibs (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 27, 2017, 03:11 PM

Sep 2017

... the whole "starve the beast" strategy, it's also important to note that cutting taxes is also an end unto itself for them. For a lot of them, they aren't cutting taxes to stimulate the economy, or starve the government of funding, they aren't cutting taxes with any vision of what will happen in the future, they're cutting taxes because they want to pay lower taxes.

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Could someone please explain to me.. [View all] busterbrown Sep 2017 OP

We will just eat the children underpants Sep 2017 #1

LOL n/t LuckyCharms Sep 2017 #5

This pretty much explains how Johonny Sep 2017 #2

I think the whole point ToadRibs Sep 2017 #3

Anybody who wants to cut the federal government, is ignorant of how they got where they Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #4

Exactly what I think? busterbrown Sep 2017 #14

While I agree that's certainly a byproduct of their plan... Salviati Sep 2017 #7

*pay* for these tax cuts? what on earth are you talking about? unblock Sep 2017 #6

True! LOL 🤑 nt procon Sep 2017 #8

To pass it under reconciliation rules, they need to pay for it MiniMe Sep 2017 #10

i not sure about that. i think they only need it to fit into the original budget unblock Sep 2017 #12

just die Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #9

We have a $20 trillion debt and they are cutting taxes, that is doc03 Sep 2017 #11

You will pay for them. That's the answer, in a nutshell. MineralMan Sep 2017 #13

Exactly.... busterbrown Sep 2017 #15

We will pay. Weekend Warrior Sep 2017 #16

Reward sane govt.workers for doing good work. busterbrown Sep 2017 #18

pay? credit card publikklans? pansypoo53219 Sep 2017 #17

We will just borrow more money SIMPLE that's what Trump does so it must work blueinredohio Sep 2017 #19