While the cost would still have been high, it wouldn’t have been as bad if Trump hadn’t fired the pandemic response team, hadn’t ignored the intelligence reports and HAD started facing up to the situation much earlier.
Have you heard the latest ignorance and stupidity from our great leader in the Dark House after he and Americans were advised by medical professionals to wear face mask. “Well I’m not wearing one”
Where were you when the Republican House/Senate/President passed the Tax Cut and Spend Scam? That took the legs out of any potential tools we could use to combat a real crisis.
Where was your debt concern when 45* gave away tax cuts to the rich he so desperately wants to be accepted by? Even now he’s talking more about helping corporations than the citizens, even the ones who voted for him.
Our Congress has fallen into such a bad habit of “just putting it on the tab” whenever there’s an expense. Right now we are in a time of public crisis and we have to pay unimaginable amounts of money to get us out. ..So Congress has just “put it on the tab”.
When this crisis has passed, those of us who didn’t need the money to live should help out by covering the tab for those who did. That’s how we do it in America .. we help each other out. Taxes should be raised proportionately to pay to repair the crisis. Why should our unborn children pay for it ?
Perhaps tax cuts for corporations that were already making record profits weren’t the best idea. Who would have thought?But it’s all good, Trump told his wealthy friends at Mar a Lago “you all just got a lot richer” when they passed.
So how did the national debt get so large the last few years before covid-19?…in a period that was supposedly very prosperous? The national debt goes up in prosperity and crisis. Either something is wrong with the system, the people running it, or both.
No, it’s not considered debt if it feeds corporations endless supplies of unregulated funds while you suffer with something that won’t pay the rent for a month or two.
Concretionist almost 4 years ago
Mmmmkay? I guess he’s telling us that the debt is as awful as the pandemic? Or is he just saying “yeah, one caused the other”?
RAGs almost 4 years ago
While the cost would still have been high, it wouldn’t have been as bad if Trump hadn’t fired the pandemic response team, hadn’t ignored the intelligence reports and HAD started facing up to the situation much earlier.
Dtroutma almost 4 years ago
2.2 to 6 Trillion dollars added, no big deal. Well except for the corporate cut of that.
superposition almost 4 years ago
And sending a highly contagious diseased population back to work is going to fix the economy? How?
ajmsdca almost 4 years ago
its okay. a democrat will fix it so that another gop can wreck it, like for decades now
Daeder almost 4 years ago
The virus is relatively new, the debt is not.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Republicans are concerned that some of that money will not go to the richest.
jimchronister2016 almost 4 years ago
Have you heard the latest ignorance and stupidity from our great leader in the Dark House after he and Americans were advised by medical professionals to wear face mask. “Well I’m not wearing one”
Patjade almost 4 years ago
Where were you when the Republican House/Senate/President passed the Tax Cut and Spend Scam? That took the legs out of any potential tools we could use to combat a real crisis.
walfishj almost 4 years ago
Varvel would rather be dead than broke.
stellans Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Where was your debt concern when 45* gave away tax cuts to the rich he so desperately wants to be accepted by? Even now he’s talking more about helping corporations than the citizens, even the ones who voted for him.
William Bednar Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Mr. T. is alerting all his Alt-Right Conspiracy Idiots who are his most ardent supporters, that this, the Covid-19 pandemic, is “fake news”.
HarryPeter almost 4 years ago
You can’t fix stupid
Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 4 years ago
No problem.. just borrow money.. it’s free evidently. trump has a long history of borrowing then walking away.. surely America can do the same.
brit-ed almost 4 years ago
So you want them to reinstate a fairer tax level on the wealthy? That’s what started the rising national debt under trump…
fusilier almost 4 years ago
Since you look back to that Shining Era of the 1950s, you might also look at the tax structure.
fusilier
James 2:24
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
Do you love it, do you hate it, there it is, the way the Republicans made it.
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
More tax breaks for billionaires and hotel owners and yacht owners, etc…
Addled Brain almost 4 years ago
Our Congress has fallen into such a bad habit of “just putting it on the tab” whenever there’s an expense. Right now we are in a time of public crisis and we have to pay unimaginable amounts of money to get us out. ..So Congress has just “put it on the tab”.
When this crisis has passed, those of us who didn’t need the money to live should help out by covering the tab for those who did. That’s how we do it in America .. we help each other out. Taxes should be raised proportionately to pay to repair the crisis. Why should our unborn children pay for it ?Another Take almost 4 years ago
Gary, Your Fearless Leader had run up a record debt before the crisis.
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
Study warns 35 million could lose employer-sponsored health insurance
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/study-warns-35-million-could-lose-employer-sponsored-health-insurance/
Radish the wordsmith almost 4 years ago
Trump is refusing to reopen the Obamacare exchanges to help millions of uninsured Americans get coverage during the coronavirus pandemic
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-refuses-to-allow-uninsured-sign-up-for-obamacare-2020-4
ferddo almost 4 years ago
Not that Trump or the GOP were adverse to raising the National Debt before COVID-19 appeared…
Monchoxyz almost 4 years ago
Put on a face mask for the first this morning. I never knew I was that agoraphobic.
DonnyTwoScoops almost 4 years ago
Perhaps tax cuts for corporations that were already making record profits weren’t the best idea. Who would have thought?But it’s all good, Trump told his wealthy friends at Mar a Lago “you all just got a lot richer” when they passed.
NeoconMan almost 4 years ago
I’m with Varvel on this one; time to get rid of all the useless eaters so we real Americans can make some money again.
ScottHolman almost 4 years ago
If he wore one, you folks would howl how un- presidential it is.
StackableContainers almost 4 years ago
So how did the national debt get so large the last few years before covid-19?…in a period that was supposedly very prosperous? The national debt goes up in prosperity and crisis. Either something is wrong with the system, the people running it, or both.
sevaar777 almost 4 years ago
No, it’s not considered debt if it feeds corporations endless supplies of unregulated funds while you suffer with something that won’t pay the rent for a month or two.