“On top of the tax cut that - shocker - did not lead to increased revenues.”
That’s OK. Raising revenues is not the purpose of tax cuts. Taxes should be cut whenever the voters decide they are paying too much for government.
Focus on debt and deficits as “the problem”, is a trick of the progressive Left, intended to equivocate between overspending and undertaxing, as if they were interchangeable.
In reality, the two are never interchangeable, they are mutually exclusive; either government spending is excessive, or tax revenues are insufficient, one or the other.
In modern times, if anyone can say with a straight face that the government is not spending too much, but rather that we are undertaxed, then that person is either a pathological liar, or a moron.
No, clearly the size of the government relative to the private sector is multiples of what the founders intended for this supposed self-governing republic.
When the government exceeds its constitutional limits (tenfold?, twentyfold?) it is a tyrant - a monster. There is no obligation to feed that monster by raising taxes.
Focus on deficits is a trick if the Left to create the illusion that raising taxes is a patriotic obligation - the fiscally responsible thing to do.
“Fiscal conservatives”, who will raise taxes to reduce the deficit, are the biggest fools ever born.
I was merely referring to the fact that every key figure in the Trump administration claimed that the tax cuts would in fact lead to higher revenues. But you knew that. What the hell are you talking about, by the way?