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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zzpat who wrote (65668)4/9/2018 2:59:52 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 366220
 
They believed the fairy tale that invading Iraq would 'pay for itself' as we 'seized their oil' as proposed by Trump just recently. Republicans are learning impaired



To: zzpat who wrote (65668)4/9/2018 3:14:50 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 366220
 
The CBO estimated in June 2012 that the Bush tax cuts of 2001 (EGTRRA) and 2003 (JGTRRA) added approximately $1.5 trillion total to the debt over the 2002–2011 decade

Exactly. Very small compared to the entitlement situation. (Even with static estimates.) Your comparing single digit trillions to an issue that's hundreds of trillions.


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