Former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney echoed his party’s ideological shift on coronavirus spending Tuesday morning, hammering a message of austerity and warning that the stimulus package is causing people to lose perspective on what government costs.
Obviously the only way out of this mess is cut taxes on the wealthy, it’s the only way. /s
Didn’t Trump exile this guy to Ireland? What’s he doing on teevee here?
They’re trying to get a capital gains tax holiday in the newest package. Yeah that’s the ticket for feeding all those who have lost their jobs.
What a fkn toad. NOW that they are ramping up for the election, SPENDING is a ‘thing’ even though even BEFORE the pandemic they were spending (and grifting) like drunks on a spree. NOW it’s all the DEMOCRATS fault and the CONS must launch multiple ‘investigations’ to show how ‘innocent’ THEY are.
“We’re at risk of training people to believe that government is free, that we can borrow whatever we want to with no consequences whatsoever, and that is extraordinarily dangerous,” Mulvaney said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Now Mick, I know government services aren’t free and the next President (a Democrat, undoubtedly) will most likely have to RAISE taxes to pay for all of the COVID-19 stimulus spending.
More nonsense and blather from Tricky Mickey. Repubs have a special hypocrisy prize with all deficit matters.
No big spending on the 99.9% but A-OK to pass and sign another MULTI-TRILLION tax bill for the .1%. That tax bill is the very mostest important piece of legislation ever during this time of COVID19.
War is free. This is from 2018
First, the economic costs: According to estimates by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the war on terror has cost Americans a staggering $5.6 trillion since 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.
“We’re at risk of training people to believe that government is free.”
Who’s “we”? Who believes that government is free? Which people don’t believe it, but are at risk of being trained to believe it? How is the risk measured? What are the consequences of people believing that government is free? Why is it that people are so easily trained?
“that we can borrow whatever we want to with no consequences whatsoever,”
45* has lived his entire life like this.
Why is Mulvaney questioning this method of economic genius?
“If the economy continues the momentum that we’re beginning to see over the last couple of weeks of data, then I think that one might conclude that the stimulus we’ve already passed is enough,” he told reporters at the White House.
What was it people used to say?
“I’d like to have some of that stuff he’s smoking.”
ah the old strangle/starve our way to health approach !
but when one coldly looks at human beings as simply “units of productivity” to be used or discarded in accordance with some set of utilitarian model - then this is what you get. These guys calculate that currently there is an excess of humans in various labor sectors.
Anyone with Peach Tree want to set up a billing for dollars spent on Golfing since 2017? It will be a late invoice, but hey, fiscal integrity demands it. Any Human Capital Stock wanna?
“We’re at risk of training people to believe that government is free, that we can borrow whatever we want to with no consequences whatsoever, and that is extraordinarily dangerous,” Mulvaney said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Oh, there will be consequences. Quite possibly even a 1.5% increase in the top marginal income tax rate. The horror!
Former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney echoed his party’s ideological shift
I wonder if Hassert, or some other " Trump economics guy", has a pie chart of that calculation?
Mick, you’re wrong. It’s not ‘government.’ It’s a crime family operation and 100,000 have paid for it with their lives.
I’m pretty sure it’s the people who have eviscerated the government’s revenue stream to give handouts to the 1%, repeatedly blowing up the deficit, who are are the ones behaving like government is or can be free…
Hmm anyone know if Mulvaney is still pulling down a government paycheck for being the US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland? Can one just phone that type of job in?