6 thoughts on “Big, Beautiful Bill”

  1. It is a fact you can’t please every interest group. A bill has to pass or our taxes will go up.

    Trying to get agreement is like trying to herd cats.

    Good luck to the leadership in the house and Senate. I wouldn’t want that job.

    1. Fred, there is a part of me that feels if the Republicans had worked better for stronger majorities in Congress, then it would have been possible to pass better legislation. But it all depends on the quality of the people the Republicans elect. And of course, historically, that has been very uneven.

  2. If the mass of Republicans were anything other than Uniparty, they could cut spending. As every last one of them has promised to do when campaigning for 50 years and never done. If the Senate Dems shut down the govt via filibuster, that’s on them. Trump would get to decide what gets the revenue coming in, resulting in defacto cuts galore that Trump prefers. Dems going to benefit from that?

    Would the Dems benefit politically from the expiration of the 2017 tax reductions?

    Elected on the basis that Republicans were elected in 2024, they can’t cut spending? They can’t eliminate able-bodied single men and illegal alien criminals from getting Medicaid? They can’t in some degree defund the DeepState?

    Except for a handful of Republicans like Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, Chip Roy, and Thomas Massey, Republicans are frauds.

    1. Here is the problem with this debate, J. Sobran. Trump, Johnson and their crowd say we need the bill to effectuate deportations and border security. Folks like Paul and Massey say we need spending cuts. In fact, we need BOTH. The subtext of this discussion is that we can only have one or the other, but we can’t have both simultaneously. I think that is tragic that the GOP is so compromised and their goals are so modest. As you say, it is a fraud.

      1. “The subtext of this discussion is that we can only have one or the other, but we can’t have both simultaneously.” Kind of like the choice a parent gives a 3 year old they need to manipulate. Why can’t Congressmen who pose as virtuous do what is right in all instances?

        The Republican Congress and President are spending and borrowing more than the Biden administration, whose level of spending was grotesquely still at the hugely-elevated level falsely justified by the Plandemic. When you say you are going to clean out the Swamp, and then you lavishly fund that Swamp, you are a fraud.

        1. I can’t fault that reasoning, J. Sobran. We really should be getting back down to pre-2020 levels of spending at the very least. Even then, the deficits were too high, and the debt was mounting rapidly. Their unwillingness to do this suggests some other dynamics are afoot. But ultimately, a political party is fraudulent when it doesn’t even make any pretense of delivering on its program.

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