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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Josh Marshall

      You can't find a more perfect distillation of liberal budgetary theory than "tax cuts are spending."https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1153761367696035841 …

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      Josh MarshallVerified account @joshtpm
      You're such a clown. You voted for a massive tax cut which is entirely new deficit spending. You're a liar and a fraud and you also have bad hair. https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1153753564336050176 …
      84 replies 172 retweets 654 likes
    2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      You know, you’re too smart to write this stuff as anything but trolling. You understand—as I wrote to you last night—that “wanting to cut redistributive social welfare spending” is not the same as “wishing to balance the budget and reduce the federal debt.”

      5 replies 0 retweets 36 likes
    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @yeselson

      Tax cuts are not spending. I would think we can agree on that much.

      10 replies 2 retweets 31 likes
    4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Sure—but that doesn’t address the sheer bad faith at the heart of Paul’s tweet. He’s throwing up smoke about the deficit and debt. He has no intellectual standing to discuss that. Spending—go ahead, hate every nickel. But don’t bring in deficits and debt.

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @yeselson

      I think the budget deal is outrageous, and should be stopped. My point is that guys like Josh are operating on an alternate planet where reducing taxes is spending. That's so wrong you can't even argue with it.

      1 reply 1 retweet 24 likes
    6. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      But that is not at all what Josh wrote! He wrote a version of what I subsequently wrote—“Stop the pious, bad faith bs about deficits and debt. You (and Republicans generally) don’t care about that, just about spending, especially redistributive social welfare spending.”

      1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
    7. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      We’re saying to you guys that, yes you hate social welfare spending. But stop bringing the debt and deficit into it. You’d happily keep cutting spending forever while maintaining high deficits and debt because you love cutting taxes for rich people and corporations too. C’mon!

      4 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019
      Replying to @yeselson

      My argument is, as it has been for many years, that we spend too much, that's bad regardless of how or when we pay for it, & spending too much is how you get debt. Deficits are just a symptom of the problem.

      3:49 PM - 23 Jul 2019
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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 23 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Right, fine, but that isn’t Paul’s argument. Nor is it the argument of any R pol, as far as I can tell. Paul brings in this pious garbage about the deficit and debt. That’s what Josh and I are calling bs on. And you know that, so you should join us, or, at least stay silent.

          2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019
          Replying to @yeselson

          It would be nice if people hadn't spent weeks trying to broil him alive for suggesting that maybe we should have some spending cuts to offset new spending.

          6 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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        1. John McGreevy‏ @McGreevyNYC 23 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson

          Something else you can't argue with: cutting taxes without cutting spending increases the budget deficit. GOP congress voted for the tax cut but lacked the courage to simultaneously cut spending, leading directly to substantially greater deficit spending.

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        1. Lurker‏ @red_boxer0 23 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson

          Note that the definition of "spending too much" is "spending more than you have." Cutting taxes => you (gov't) have less to spend, meaning now the definition of "too much" has been reduced. Thus, cutting taxes means more of your spending becomes "too much".

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