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FightFight

(246 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 09:17 PM Feb 2025

Trump Tax Cuts' Cost Estimated at $5 Trillion to $11 Trillion

Trump’s tax cut wish list would cost would the federal government between $5 trillion and $11.2 trillion in lost revenue over the next decade, according to a new analysis from a budget watchdog group.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tax-cuts-cost-estimated-152108816.html

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Republican tax cuts are the driving force behind the country’s worsening fiscal outlook.

If not for the Bush tax cuts and their extensions — as well as the Trump tax cuts 2020— revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt since their enactment and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since 2001

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-tax-cuts-driving-us-160437971.html

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Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president. https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office

TRUMP HAD THE THIRD-BIGGEST PRIMARY DEFICIT GROWTH, 5.2% OF GDP, BEHIND ONLY GEORGE W. BUSH (11.7%) AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN (9.4%).--All Republicans

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Trump Tax Cuts' Cost Estimated at $5 Trillion to $11 Trillion (Original Post) FightFight Feb 2025 OP
Yep, and Trump will hang the US over the heads of reps to get the billionaire tax cuts not caring who he hurts or who's uponit7771 Feb 2025 #1
"revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely".. this is blatantly untrue... berkerly6240 Feb 2025 #2

uponit7771

(93,455 posts)
1. Yep, and Trump will hang the US over the heads of reps to get the billionaire tax cuts not caring who he hurts or who's
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 09:20 PM
Feb 2025

... next politically cause he aint running in 2028.

He gets the tax cuts or he shuts everything down consequences be damn

berkerly6240

(109 posts)
2. "revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely".. this is blatantly untrue...
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 09:23 PM
Feb 2025

we would need to substantially raise taxes... which we should on the wealthiest!

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