Mick Mulvaney Is Now a Keynesian
The Republican tax push is off to a slightly rocky start, in part because the party can’t quite agree on whether—or how much—the bill should add to the federal deficit. On one end, you have Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who says there’s “no way in hell” he’ll vote for a bill that adds to the deficit and may be serious since he’s retiring anyway.1 On the other, well, you have all the Republicans in Washington who were happy to use fearmongering about the national debt as a talking point during the Obama administration, but who now want to shred the tax code into hamster bedding, at any cost, while they have the chance.
That group apparently includes White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney, who during his time in Congress was known as squawking deficit hawk. Back during the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, he famously said that it would be better for the government to default on its obligations than pass a clean hike and warned that “we desperately need is structural change that stops Congress from continuing to spend a bunch of money we don’t have.” He also co-authored a budget amendment known as “cut, cap, and balance”—the name says it all—and once introduced an amendment that would have made Congress offset Hurricane Sandy aid with cuts to other spending, just because.
https://slate.com/business/2017/10/mick-mulvaney-says-tax-cuts-will-only-create-growth-if-they-lead-to-deficits.html
I Think Jared Bernstein is more qualified then this jerk Mulvaney
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/24/dsa-dynamic-scoring-abuse/?utm_term=.db6b20ad0721
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/24/dsa-dynamic-scoring-abuse/?utm_term=.db6b20ad0721
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