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The New York Times’ columnist Paul Krugman is one of the few fixtures of the major prestige media honest enough to forthrightly explain why there should be no “controversy” (a word beloved of journalists) about Republican policies.
These policies are not just mistaken, nor are they something about which reasonable people can differ — the GOP consciously advocates for them in bad faith, using arguments they know are false.
Krugman’s favorite target is tax cuts for the rich. Although they have repeatedly been proven not to help the real economy (beyond giving a temporary cocaine buzz to investors), and although their supposed zero impact on deficits is laughably false, Republicans make these justifications with robotic consistency.
Inside testimony proves their bad faith arguments go back decades. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill’s memoir recounts how, when he warned that the 2001 Bush tax cut would throw the budget into deficit, Vice President Cheney cut him short in his trademarked charming manner: “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter… This is our due.”
Of course, once Barack Obama became president amid economic turmoil largely the result of the GOP’s own policies, deficits mattered to Republicans once again – and intensely so. But they magically ceased to matter when Donald Trump became president.
See the pattern?
www.alternet.org
From a former aide huh? Must be just another disgruntled employee.
These policies are not just mistaken, nor are they something about which reasonable people can differ — the GOP consciously advocates for them in bad faith, using arguments they know are false.
Krugman’s favorite target is tax cuts for the rich. Although they have repeatedly been proven not to help the real economy (beyond giving a temporary cocaine buzz to investors), and although their supposed zero impact on deficits is laughably false, Republicans make these justifications with robotic consistency.
Inside testimony proves their bad faith arguments go back decades. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill’s memoir recounts how, when he warned that the 2001 Bush tax cut would throw the budget into deficit, Vice President Cheney cut him short in his trademarked charming manner: “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter… This is our due.”
Of course, once Barack Obama became president amid economic turmoil largely the result of the GOP’s own policies, deficits mattered to Republicans once again – and intensely so. But they magically ceased to matter when Donald Trump became president.
See the pattern?
Former GOP congressional aide: Republicans will sacrifice lives on the altar of the economy to propitiate an angry and jealous god named Trump
The New York Times’ columnist Paul Krugman is one of the few fixtures of the major prestige media honest enough to forthrightly explain why there should be no “controversy” (a word beloved of journalists) about Republican policies.These policies are not just mistaken, nor are they something...
www.alternet.org
From a former aide huh? Must be just another disgruntled employee.
