{"id":137322,"date":"2018-10-15T13:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/the-trump-deficit.html"},"modified":"2018-10-15T13:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:18:26","slug":"the-trump-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/the-trump-deficit.html","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing: slash taxes on companies and the wealthy, jack up military spending, and, hey presto, deficits go up.<\/p>\n<p>The message back from the Administration (from multiple resources):<\/p>\n<p>1. &quot;Even though all that <i>cutting tax rates will boost productivity will increase tax revenue<\/i> stuff hasn&#39;t kicked in yet, we&#39;re sure it will next year! Just wait!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>2. &quot;Oooh, bad deficits. Don&#39;t worry, we&#39;re going to slash all sorts of stuff in the budget [i.e., social welfare and safety net progams] as soon as we get past this pesky midterm thing. Just wait!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Exactly as predicted, and predictable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/10\/15\/budget-deficit-swells-trump-900432'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-1qK1TDUljiKtAv73DioxcYq6MoaJ7W5iGU0C0IqhiFBNyl54c7DrWj7jq3HOWp87ZDdhAxO5y8GRu3we_aLoflBI9ZiKe0KHl-iJwub_vGVIsJc-Wf0WulJfi-p6L1BfMJdcGGuyPgt_6Nmdg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/10\/15\/budget-deficit-swells-trump-900432'>Treasury: Budget deficit swells under Trump to largest in six years &#8211; POLITICO<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JHPaDDuaiMf'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing: slash taxes on companies and the wealthy, jack up military spending, and, hey presto, deficits go up. The message back from the Administration (from multiple resources): 1. &quot;Even though all that cutting tax rates will boost productivity will increase tax revenue stuff hasn&#39;t kicked in yet, we&#39;re sure it will next year! Just wait!&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/the-trump-deficit.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Trump Deficit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137335,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/17\/a-vote-for-the-gop-is-a-vote-for-cutting-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid.html","url_meta":{"origin":137322,"position":0},"title":"A vote for the GOP is a vote for cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Oct-18 10:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Having massively ratcheted up the federal budget deficit by passing a tax cut with $1 trillion in revenue reductions over the next decade, and then jacking up military spending by a significant amount at the same time, Senate Majority Leader McConnell makes it clear that, nope, the real cause of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20501,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/19\/unblogged-bits-sat-19-mar-11-2330.html","url_meta":{"origin":137322,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 19-Mar-11 2330)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 19-Mar-11 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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