Can we stop pretending Republicans care about fiscal responsibility?
Republicans in Congress have always talked a good game about cutting government spending and being fiscally responsible, but they sure have a knack for never following through and only making things worse.
The federal government ended the last fiscal year with a budget deficit of $666 billion. It has been known for a long-time, well-before the tax cuts were passed, that things were only going to get worse.
So what did the Republicancontrolled Congress and White House do? They agreed to a budget agreement, signed Friday morning, that will allow for $300 billion in additional spending over the next two years, including $165 billion for the military.
With America back on track with $1 trillion a year budget deficits, it’s unsurprising that President Trump made no mention of the national debt or the budget in his State of the Union address.
To the contrary, Trump called for more spending, including $1.5 trillion for infrastructure, and of course the military, because it’s apparently not enough that the US spends more on its military than the next 7-8 countries combined. Republican districts need government jobs, I suppose.
Until Republicans actually back their small government talk with cuts to the size of government, they shouldn’t be considered the party of limited government or fiscal responsibility. Once in power, regardless of the rhetoric used, it just seems that the Democratic and Republican parties stand mostly for corporatism, overspending and the perpetuation of the warfare-welfare state.