The U.S. has a massive budget and eye-popping debt precisely because Congress annually fleeces the rich. To believe otherwise is to believe in Santa Claus, ferociously dumb markets, or both.
What’s disappointing is that Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell plainly believes in neither, but let’s her often reasonable disdain for the GOP and its rhetoric get in the way of reasonable commentary. Take her latest column for the Post. It’s about the Republican Party’s efforts to extend President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
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