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Title: The Omnibus Spending Bill Is a Fiscal Embarrassment
Source: Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/archives/2018/03 ... s-spending-bill-is-a-fiscal-em
Published: Mar 22, 2018
Author: Veronique de Rugy
Post Date: 2018-03-22 09:46:58 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1297
Comments: 10

Republicans prove yet again why they deserve to be labeled the biggest swamp spenders.

Republicans are once again proving why they actually deserve the label of the biggest swamp spenders. The latest gigantic omnibus spending bill would fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year—with a price tag of $1.3 trillion. That doesn't include entitlement funding or payments for the interest on our debt—which continue to grow and drive our debt higher, as Republicans have apparently given up on slowing down spending.

Most Republicans favor the bill as a way to avoid the self-inflicted risk of another government shutdown. Never mind that members have had no time to read the 1,000-page bill and figure out what is actually in it. They just have to take Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's word. He said, "It has some things no one likes, and it has a lot of things not everybody likes but most people like. It was a fair compromise."

Schumer's uncharacteristic cheerfulness about the measure probably had much to do with the $900 million in funding for the Gateway tunnel project, a boondoggle supported by all New York-area lawmakers. It most likely won't be in the final bill, though, because President Donald Trump threatened to veto the bill if the project were to be included. Immigration is another sticky point, but we can all expect it to be resolved at some point by nudging the right people for their support.

You can also expect Republicans and President Trump to spin this as a "yuge" victory for their team. After all, isn't it a sign that they can govern? Sure, if you tolerate massive deficit spending, being irresponsible, and pushing all that liability down the throat of future generations. I don't, because I actually care about the well-being of my kids and grandkids.

To be fair, this is no surprise. These are the same guys who agreed back in February to add $300 billion of spending over two years to the already monstrous federal tab. Showing yet again that bipartisanship isn't good news for those of us who care about the fiscal path our country is on, the agreement blew the budget caps that were meant to control excess spending by opportunistic politicians.

Democrats are, of course, loving it. Let's face it; they know that when Republicans are in power, they can act like a drunken teenager with Daddy's credit card, but they sober up when they have the gavel. What's worse, Republicans are terrible negotiators. For example, Democrats have once again managed to get most of their non-defense priorities funded by the Republican-controlled Congress and White House in exchange for allowing more defense spending. The result is a $143 billion boost to this year's spending above budget caps. Who cares about budget rules and deficits when you can throw more cash at the Department of Defense?

This will, of course, lead to much larger deficits than originally projected. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, red ink for 2018 will reach $800 billion. That's a solid $230 billion higher than what was projected by the Congressional Budget Office in its June 2017 10-year forecast. That's a whole $2 trillion in additional debt after just one year of Republican control of the legislative and executive branches.

Larger deficits also mean larger interest payments. A CRFB analysis found that "interest payments will quadruple, topping $1 trillion per year in as little as a decade. That's more than we will spend each year on the military or Medicaid, and as a share of the economy, it is the highest in history. ... Over the next decade, we'll spend around $7 trillion—$55,000 per household—just servicing our debt."

The economy is growing. The scale of the Afghanistan War is relatively small—and even some defense hawks recognize that there's enough waste and unnecessary spending already in the military budget that could be cut to pay for whatever modernization is necessary. Unemployment is going down, and people feel more hopeful about the economy. This is hardly the time for Republicans to deliver the biggest increase to federal spending in years. Yet that's what is happening. Don't be fooled by the forthcoming victory dance.

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

pushing all that liability down the throat of future generations

Future generations always have recourse to the great middle finger of voting to simply default and cancel debt.

Imagine it were today, and an old debt, incurred by parents, arrives so large that it will essentially swamp us and end our lives as we know them. We have two choices: let our lives be ended, or say "Fuck you!" to the investors of old who bought the investments, and the politicians of old who voted to enslave us. "Fuck you, we are not paying this debt, we are passing a law that wipes it out." Then we pass the law that wipes it out, and people holding those notes lose. They whine and cry, just like investors whine and cry when Brazil or Italy or anybody else does this. But there is no real recourse - the debt is cancelled by main force - and life goes on.

If we can't discipline ourselves to stop the deficit spending in this generation, then it's a cinch that the future generations are just going to vote to cancel the debt but keep the bridges and tunnels, etc. And they'll still have the army to make their decision to "steal" final.

Oh well. You can't bind the future all that well, because you'll be dead, or very old and feeble, when the time comes, and you will not have the strength to bind them to the rules you set.

If the future breaks the convenants that the past has sought to place upon them, it will be essentially like the Eskimos pushing their old and sick out to die alone on icebergs. We'll be the old and sick, but that's the way it goes, I guess. Everybody dies. And debts can be erased by the strong.

Vicomte13  posted on  2018-03-22   10:25:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1)

Psalm 37:21 King James Version (KJV) 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

A K A Stone  posted on  2018-03-22   10:28:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Deckard (#0)

The result is a $143 billion boost to this year's spending above budget caps.

True. But if the federal government takes in an additional $143 billion in taxes and tariffs, why, they haven't added a dime to the deficit.

So. How much did the government take in? Oh, you don't know yet? Then maybe you should just STFU until you do.

misterwhite  posted on  2018-03-22   10:47:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: misterwhite (#3)

But if the federal government takes in an additional $143 billion in taxes and tariffs

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Jameson  posted on  2018-03-22   10:57:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Jameson (#4)

But if the federal government takes in an additional $143 billion in taxes and tariffs
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Are you Laffering at me?

$143 billion represents a mere 8-10% increase in income tax revenue alone, plus the revenue increase from corporate taxes and the new tariffs. Doable.

misterwhite  posted on  2018-03-22   11:41:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: misterwhite (#5)

Are you Laffering at me?

Good one!!!

Jameson  posted on  2018-03-22   11:46:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Vicomte13 (#1)

" Future generations always have recourse to the great middle finger of voting to simply default and cancel debt. "

That is exactly what they should do !

And they should also take a chainsaw to the Fed budget. Cut departments, programs , salaries, retirements, etc to the bone !!!

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)

Stoner  posted on  2018-03-22   14:58:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Deckard (#0)

YUGE disappointment.

This is what happens when you give the subversive NWO McConnell-McCain wing an inch.

It's appearing like the GOPe is signaling that they have aces in the hole. Trump STILL has no backing from enough people within the hijacked phony Republican Party. VERY BAD NEWS for We the People.

Liberator  posted on  2018-03-22   15:04:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Vicomte13 (#1)

If we can't discipline ourselves to stop the deficit spending in this generation, then it's a cinch that the future generations are just going to vote to cancel the debt but keep the bridges and tunnels, etc. And they'll still have the army to make their decision to "steal" final.

WE can. It's our alleged "Reps" who are stabbing us, their constituency, in the back. "Future Generations"? The Mitch McConnels and Pelosis are only concerned with maintaining power and wealth for, by, and of The NWO Elites. And crushing the Middle Class and shoving future gens down the rungs of stairs.

"It's a Republic...IF you can keep it." ~ Ben Franklin (who KNEW it wouldn't last.)

As Mark Levine recently said, OUR Senate is MORE corrupt than the Roman Senate. (Yes, Levine, whose radio show is now dynamite. He also just documented, exposed and indicted Elaine Cho and his wife Mitch McConnell of playing patsy with...China.)

Liberator  posted on  2018-03-22   15:10:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Deckard (#0)

let me see if I get this straight, your budget is in deficit, so you are borrowing to pay interest, and Dumbo is willing to sign up for more debt. It sounds like the strategy he has used in business, borrow and walk away. So when is the US going to declare bankruptcy, they have a polite word for it, repudiate your debt. Well if it was good for Greece it must be ok for you. I don't get it, why aren't your bonds rated as junk bonds?

paraclete  posted on  2018-03-23   1:38:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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