Letter: Republican tax plan anything but fiscally conservative

I find it disheartening to watch “fiscally responsible” Republicans, who now have control of government policy and spending and are unable to pass anything of substance, now rush to pass budget and tax “relief” that dramatically increases the deficit.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration released a budget proposal that included draconian cuts and asserted it would yield a small surplus after 10 years, assuming the accompanying economic growth. At that time, Congress ignored that budget proposal as it was very busy repealing the dreaded Obama Care, and that dastardly Congressional Budget Office found that the administration’s economic growth projections were “overly optimistic,” with the federal debt growing by $10 trillion over the next decade. Such Republican fiscal hawks deemed the proposal unacceptable!

After many months of failed legislation progress, Trump and Republicans seem in need of success and are willing to expedite a budget bill that casts spending to the wind while offering a tax reduction for all, resurrecting the fantasy of eliminating debt by growing our economy on steroids, which independent economists assert is implausible. This is the sound fiscal management we were promised would “Make America Great Again?”

Republicans, Mr. President, you’re fired!

This story was originally published November 9, 2017 at 2:57 PM with the headline "Letter: Republican tax plan anything but fiscally conservative."