Tom Toles for October 17, 2018

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    DD Wiz Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Tax giveaways and corporate welfare for the few richest elites who already had the most failed. The deficit, which Bill Clinton reduced from then-record levels to his last four straight years of budget surpluses before Dubya Bush exploded them to new records that Obama CUT BY TWO THIRDS before Trump now explodes them to new all-time records (because of the tax giveaways and corporate welfare for the rich), so of course the TrumpubliCON elitists have their usual solutions:

    Pay for the tax giveaways and corporate welfare by cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

    Just as the Democrats predicted while the TrumpubliCON CON artists promised the tax cuts would pay for themselves (they didn’t; never have; trickle-down is a scam).

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    kballweg Premium Member over 5 years ago

    last fall: Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says “Not only will this tax plan pay for itself but it will pay down debt,” boosting revenue/cutting deficits through growth, reduced corporate tax avoidance this fall: Treasury reports 2018 deficit up 17%, corporate tax payments down 31%.

    Wow, who would ever have imagined that the GOP response to this news would be…… (Bloomberg) — "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the U.S. budget deficit is “disturbing” and spending on entitlement programs must be addressed by both Republicans and Democrats".

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    Coopersdad  over 5 years ago

    @DD Wiz…You have to understand…..trickle-down works like this: the rich person gets to drink an expensive bottle of wine on the poor man’s dollar and for his share he has to stand real close to the urinal….it will trickle-down.

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    Daeder  over 5 years ago

    The image is misleading, he’s not actually wearing clothes.

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    lopaka  over 5 years ago

    Got to find some silver lining somewhere………. Ah, the one percenter’s can now afford to have the shocks on their Mercedes polished. yayyyy.

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    mr_sherman Premium Member over 5 years ago

    If you like that, read this.

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-calls-to-cut-social-security-medicare/ar-BBOtGyE?ocid=ientp2

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    Masterskrain Premium Member over 5 years ago
    REMEMBER, “Deficits don’t matter!”: Darth Cheney. (At least not to a REPUBLICAN "Con"gress, they don’t!)
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    stealth694  over 5 years ago

    Add it to Carter’s IOU, Reagan’s IOU, Bush Senior’s IOU, Bush Junior’s IOU, Obama’s IOU,, only one President left office with a surplus and that was Clinton.

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 5 years ago

    Republicans have doubled the deficit in two years and are going to cut Medicare and Social Security to pay for their tax breaks for rich people.

    Vote the heartless thieving Republicans out of office.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 5 years ago

    A banker, a tea-partier, and a union member are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies. The banker takes 11 cookies, then turns to the tea-partier and says “You should watch out for that other guy; I think he wants more than half of your cookie.”

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 5 years ago

    Trump’s DC Hotel Tagged With $5 Million in Unpaid Worker Liens

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-05/trump-s-dc-hotel-tagged-with-5-million-in-unpaid-worker-liens

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 5 years ago

    Mueller said ready to deliver key findings in his Trump probe, but not before midterms

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mueller-said-ready-to-deliver-key-findings-in-his-13313678.php

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    William Bednar Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Yep. Trump pocketed any money left over. Now do you see how fraud and corruption come in handy?

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    Ontman  over 5 years ago

    He’s not done looting yet.

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    superposition  over 5 years ago

    Realizing the importance of basic economic skills the political parties raised the bar for representatives well beyond the minimal Constitutional requirements of age and citizen … in a dream, I had long ago while social studies were still part of the curriculum.

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