Jerome Swabb, Erie For the People Act supports voters, protects our democracy I’m shocked, shocked that it took a Democrat’s thumbs to cause them to come to an epiphany regarding toxic rhetoric. Perpetually blind to irony, Republicans are finding President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden’s, past tweets too harsh.
Under people like Trump and Thompson, the Republican Party has become in my opinion a party of shallow hypocrites.Įd Satalia, State College Neera Tanden panned for mean tweets? Really? Glenn Thompson, R-15th Dist., voted for the Trump deficit increase, but now joins with Republicans who say the Biden plan will unnecessarily increase the federal deficit.
The same Republicans who supported massive budget deficits under Trump now object to providing help to people being evicted from their apartments, losing their jobs or having trouble feeding their families. Yes, President Joe Biden’s pandemic spending bill may further increase the deficit, but suddenly Republicans have rediscovered the danger of deficits. This trickle-down theory has been discredited repeatedly, yet Republicans keep running it up the flagpole. Unsurprisingly, this proved false as the deficit increased to $27 trillion, up 36% in less than four years under Donald “King of Debt” Trump. Republicans claimed the tax cut would pay for itself, and there would be a trickle-down effect that would help the poor and middle class. Obviously, they don’t matter to Republicans, because the first thing Donald Trump did, with overwhelming support from all Republicans in Congress, was to increase the deficit drastically by instituting tax cuts that benefited mostly rich people and corporations. Some 20 years later, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke truth saying, “Reagan taught us deficits don’t matter.” That great fiscal conservative Ronald Reagan doubled the deficit while claiming that government is the problem.
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