While the nation continues to drown in deficit spending, Washington Republicans muffed many recent opportunities to reverse course.
The Republican Congress responded by spending $11 billion more than President Trump requested.
In March, 2018, Congress passed a gargantuan $1.3 trillion spending bill over the futile protest of a handful of conservative Republicans.
In an effort to exert some semblance of fiscal responsibility, the administration then proposed a rescission bill that would have clawed back some $15 billion of the $1.3 trillion spending bill.
Even with a Republican president and a Republican Congress, there has been no real appetite for cutting spending and moving toward a balanced budget.
Meantime, as liberals boast about "Being morally right," Republicans have failed to make the moral argument against more deficit spending.
Former Senator Tom Coburn has written, "Big government's false promise of easy living and smug security has wreaked havoc not only in the nation's finances, but also in the American ideals of self-reliance and human dignity." Arthur Brooks concludes, "The fact that we have hardly moved the needle on earned success after spending trillions of dollars is not merely a failure of public policy. It is the greatest moral scandal of our time." J.D. Vance, in his blockbuster best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy, poignantly portrays the devastating effects of well-intentioned entitlement programs.
https://spectator.org/republican-spenders-wheres-the-backbone/
The Republican Congress responded by spending $11 billion more than President Trump requested.
In March, 2018, Congress passed a gargantuan $1.3 trillion spending bill over the futile protest of a handful of conservative Republicans.
In an effort to exert some semblance of fiscal responsibility, the administration then proposed a rescission bill that would have clawed back some $15 billion of the $1.3 trillion spending bill.
Even with a Republican president and a Republican Congress, there has been no real appetite for cutting spending and moving toward a balanced budget.
Meantime, as liberals boast about "Being morally right," Republicans have failed to make the moral argument against more deficit spending.
Former Senator Tom Coburn has written, "Big government's false promise of easy living and smug security has wreaked havoc not only in the nation's finances, but also in the American ideals of self-reliance and human dignity." Arthur Brooks concludes, "The fact that we have hardly moved the needle on earned success after spending trillions of dollars is not merely a failure of public policy. It is the greatest moral scandal of our time." J.D. Vance, in his blockbuster best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy, poignantly portrays the devastating effects of well-intentioned entitlement programs.
https://spectator.org/republican-spenders-wheres-the-backbone/
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