Fiscal sanity is a beleaguered minority in one of the two parties, and wholly unwelcome in the other. I'm with Ted.https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1285962044978507777 …
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It's not a blank check, it's a $1 trillion dollar check! It has the number he opposes written on it!
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He opposes the trend, not merely a specific amount. I remember when Reagan lamented the debt was approaching $800B.
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What do you make of Cotton's counterargument that such a collapse makes a D takeover dramatically more likely, and with it an even larger climate/health/child care/student debt spending package if Biden wins
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Republicans only care about deficit or debt when dems are in power
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The problem is that in the emergency of this scope, effective responses all but require a blank check mindset.
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That said, I appreciate the existence of a contrarian voice.
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It's not the actions in a pandemic/recessions, it's the actions when things are humming along.
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dude, it quite literally has a price tag on it
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They're the same thing. Our ancestors would have worked through the pandemic, and some would have died. They would have seen this as a fit alternative to sticking us with the debt. We, OTOH, don't care about posterity. At all.
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My great-uncle's memoir says that at one point in 1918, everyone in my great-grandparents' household (four great-uncles off in Europe, the other 11 people still home) was sick. Not a hint of demanding free greenbacks from DC.
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