The budget ‘hoax’

Dear editor:

Republican senator admits that the president and the Republican Party are scamming the American public, but only after he votes to go along with the hoax. The following is a quote from an article in Newsweek dated Oct. 20, 2017. This is in reference to the budget that just passed the Senate on a straight party line vote with only one Republican voting against it, Sen. Rand Paul. They now have a strategy to fast-track it through the House with a minimum of discussion, completely leaving out the Democrats in both the House and the Senate.

This $4 trillion budget is partly paid for with a $473 billion cut to Medicare and taking $1 trillion from Medicaid, the rest will be added to the national debt for over $2 trillion, but it will pave the way for massive tax cuts to corporations with the old promise of jobs and higher wages, which never manifest.

This has been the argument for over 30 years, yet corporations don’t hire Americans, nor do they raise the pay of most. Most years they use their massive profits to buy back stock shares to increase their value and enrich the corporate executives and shareholders and do nothing for labor. So this is a take from the poor to hand off to the rich scheme with more for war and less for domestic infrastructure or the people.

“This is the biggest hoax cast upon the American people ever that this budget process even exists. The only thing about this that matters is in preparation for tax reform,” said Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee before voting on the bill.

While Corker voted for the budget in the 51-49 vote, he said that “unless we create a real budget process, which this is not, our country’s fiscal situation is going to continue to go down the tube.” Judith Zitko Hot Springs Village