Aldo Raine
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The cut/stimulus we didn't even need.
The economy chugging along nicely with 80 straight months of growth, and unemployment at 4.6% (and dropping) when Obama left office, even lower by the time of the cuts. Near 4.2%.. "Full employment"
Never been done in such a circumstance.
So now we are having a "sugar high:" getting the last few tenths out of the long term growth, at a cost of risking it all.
And in case you don't realize it, the Individual tax cuts are Temporary, while the corporate ones permanent.
This is the Hollow "great economy" Trumpov Trumpets now: the "sugar high" from these Tax cuts.
Trump tax cuts carry a big price tag: Huge debt and risk of another financial crisis, budget office warns
By EVAN HALPER - JUN 26, 2018
Trump tax cuts carry a big price tag: Huge debt and risk of another financial crisis, budget office warns
The tax cuts championed by President Trump are pushing the nation toward an unprecedented level of debt, heightening the risk for another financial crisis, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.`
The budget office’s annual look at the government’s long-term financial outlook paints a grim picture, projecting soaring deficits in the coming years, with debt ultimately peaking at more than 152% of the nation’s gross domestic product.
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The biggest problem in the coming decade stems from last year’s tax cut. It is estimated to increase the deficit by more than $2.3 trillion over that period. Under the tax law, individual income tax rates are slated to Increase sharply at the end of the decade, while corporate taxes remain low. If Congress allows that individual tax hike to take effect, the tax cut’s long-term impact on the debt will begin to fade after the next 10 years.
But if Congress balks at that big tax increase — many members of Congress already have said they want to make the individual cuts permanent — the red ink would be even worse than projected, the budget office said.
The impact of the tax cut comes on top of a preexisting problem — the spiraling price of providing subsidized healthcare and Social Security for the huge baby boom generation as it moves into retirement, the budget office said. Most of the rest of government spending is projected to decline, relative to the size of the economy, the report said. The one big exception is interest payments, which will rise as the debt increases.
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Rising debt also threatens to weaken the global power of the United States as it increasingly depends on foreign investors to lend money to the Treasury, the report noted.
Federal debt already stands at the highest level relative to the size of the economy that it has been since the aftermath of World War II, 78% of the gross domestic product. The last time the debt was that high, the nation was deep in the red from the war effort and the public works projects implemented in response to the Depression.
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News flash#1: we've already got huge debt and the risk of another financial crisis.
News flash#2: we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. We cannot possibly raise taxes enough to balance the budget, let alone pay down any debt.
News flash#3: since when does an effing democrat give a rat's ass about the debt? It's a sad day for the rest of us that the GOP doesn't seem to either; I dunno when the shit is going to hit the fan, but it's coming. I feel really bad for future generations. We screwed them over royally.
We most definitely have a things spending problem, but we also have a revenue problem. Elimination of all expenditures for all people and corporations would certainly be a good place to begin!
But as you said without Washington tightening it's belt and keeping us out of frivolous wars it would not matter!