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Trumps 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 countrys 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 Itll 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 Trumps 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
uponit7771
(93,455 posts)... next politically cause he aint running in 2028.
He gets the tax cuts or he shuts everything down consequences be damn
berkerly6240
(109 posts)we would need to substantially raise taxes... which we should on the wealthiest!