{"id":21295,"date":"2017-04-27T02:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T02:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21295"},"modified":"2017-04-27T02:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T02:19:57","slug":"remember-when-deficits-mattered-to-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21295","title":{"rendered":"Remember when deficits mattered to GOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s tax &#8220;reform&#8221; plan appears to be a prescription for doing something that used to be <em>anathema<\/em> to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>It will blow apart the national budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>I recall a day when deficits actually mattered to Republicans. The GOP spent a lot of political energy and capital during the eight years of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency to lambaste the president for expanding the national debt, even though the annual budget deficit was cut by two-thirds during Obama&#8217;s two terms.<\/p>\n<p>Flashing back to 1980, I want to recall how Ronald Reagan managed to be elected president. He and his fellow Republicans tore congressional Democrats &#8212; and President Carter &#8212; to pieces because they were running deficits that exceeded $40 billion annually.<\/p>\n<p><em>Forty billion dollars!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you wish that were the case today?<\/p>\n<p>Well, deficits no longer seem to\u00a0matter. Republicans have joined their Democratic colleagues as political spendthrifts. Trump is going to cut taxes for his fellow wealthy Americans; his administration calls it the greatest tax cut in history. The spending will go on. The deficits are likely to soar. Won&#8217;t that pile more money onto our national debt?<\/p>\n<p>Where is the outrage over that?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s tax &#8220;reform&#8221; plan appears to be a prescription for doing something that used to be anathema to Republicans. It will blow apart the national budget deficit. I recall a day when deficits actually mattered to Republicans. The GOP spent a lot of political energy and capital during the eight years of Barack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remember when deficits mattered to GOP?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[775,1424,1941,2491,3197,4017,7080],"class_list":["post-21295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-budget-deficit","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-national-debt","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-tax-overhaul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21296,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions\/21296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}