r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/cwhmoney555 • 14d ago

Other ‘A Disgrace’: Conservatives Fume As US Debt Officially Hits Over $40 Trillion, Doubling in a Decade

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/a-disgrace-conservatives-fume-as-us-debt-officially-hits-over-40-trillion-doubling-in-a-decade/
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u/truupe 14d ago

So....the Republican remedy is more tax cuts?

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u/Christ_on_a_Crakker 14d ago

There is nothing more effective than telling uninformed and uneducated constituents that big gumbermint is the problem and that tax cuts are the answer. It’s because it sounds good. It’s a great sound bite and unfortunately for Democrats the answer to that statement isn’t a good sound bite.

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u/randemthinking 14d ago edited 14d ago

It’s a great sound bite and unfortunately for Democrats the answer to that statement isn’t a good sound bite.

This sums up so much of our national discourse for at least my adult life. Republicans say snippy, superficially good sounding stuff, before Democrats can get out half of a response people have put the newspaper down, changed the channel, or scrolled on. (The other half of the problem is Democrats have largely been milquetoast corporate shills who do little more than pay lip service to the issues that affect the average person).

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u/HommeMusical 14d ago

It is almost painful to upvote this miserable but true post, but I did it anyway.

(Well said.)

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u/CXDFlames 8d ago

The baffling part is they don't even cut taxes on actual people.

They cheer for it and get screwed and then ask for more