Discussion: GOP Eyes Budget Rule Change To Obscure Deficit Impact Of Tax Cuts

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Cheating the system seems to be the only way Republicans ever win. Don’t they realize that they are building themselves a house of cards that will eventually crumble around them?

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What a crock of shit!

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What could possibly go wrong with that? Look at what a boon it was for Kansas!

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Voodoo? Who do?

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When it collapses, a Democrat will come in and try to fix it, only to be thwarted at every turn by the GOP, then blamed for not fixing it.

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Gee, that doesn’t seem like a very “fiscally responsible” or even a “conservative” approach to budgeting. Oh, I forgot. These people aren’t responsible or conservative. They’re Bircher radicals (oops, I meant to say “modern Republicans”)

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they’re after proportional voting in some states too, as well as limiting voting hours…yeah, they’ll try every trick in the book outside of leveling with the voters…not very brave for a party that likes to talk about how tough they are

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Repugs are experts at tax evasion. It’s a core value for them. Slime.

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Unfortunately we are locked into that house of cards with them. If the Dems lose the Senate, the GOP will act like a pack of rabid right wing dogs. The last six years will seem like a vacation.

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I wonder what a dynamic scoring protocol applied to the Bush tax cuts would have predicted?

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My former college calculus professor, a very funny guy I might add, used to posit that “two plus two equals five for large values of two.” It would seem that Paul Ryan was in the same class and mistook humor for a mathematical truth.

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Democrats and Republicans have equally valid worldviews; they simply differ in their political philosophies:

  • One party believes in working hard, playing by the rules, and paying your fair share.

  • The other believes in “dynamic scoring”, fairy dust, and magic ponies.

Let’s not quibble over minor differences.

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I guess when they call it the “nonpartisan” CBO, that’s a word I thought I knew the meaning of, but apparently not. If one side can arbitrarily change the rules of accounting to make their positions work, how is that “nonpartisan?”

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Since new money-loving Jesus and 3rd world atom bombs aren’t working like they used to the GOP now celebrates funny math and funny history to go with funny science to cover decades of lies, corruption and rampant failure.
Strange how the bad hair and cheap suits linger…

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Dynamic scoring that accurately took into account the effect of the policy change on economic growth would be fine. The problem is that the Republican version of dynamic scoring is to use unfounded pie in the sky calculations.

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It is called “tough love,”

but they haven’t realized that the person who implements that “love” is just as F’ed as the ones they give it to.

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What we need more of: un-skewed math.

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Photo;

Paulie wishing he were ERicCantor…

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DooDooEcoNomNomNomics.

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