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Old 04-13-2018, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
Tax cuts are considered spending (or more accurately tax expenditures) by tax gurus. The bottom line is that Republicans always want tax cuts, but have never cared about spending by Republican administrations. They only care about spending by Democrats.
No, that's "inside the beltway" political speak, and those "gurus" are political animals making flawed arguments.

As far as your comment that "They only care about spending by Democrats", wake the hell up! You might have been able to make that argument 20 years ago. But Trump has put the support of his base at risk with this latest budget bill / albatross.
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