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Will Democrats ever stop falsely blaming tax cuts for the $1 trillion deficit?

By Brad Polumbo

Published July 22, 2019 10:14pm ET

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Will Democrats ever stop falsely blaming tax cuts for the $1 trillion deficit? — You can say one thing about the Democratic Party’s messaging: At least it’s consistent. Ever since the GOP passed its landmark tax reform bill in 2017, left-wing critics have employed the same refrain every time budgetary issues come up: Republicans have no credibility to invoke debt concerns because they voted for the tax cuts supposedly […]

You can say one thing about the Democratic Party’s messaging: At least it’s consistent.

Ever since the GOP passed its landmark tax reform bill in 2017, left-wing critics have employed the same refrain every time budgetary issues come up: Republicans have no credibility to invoke debt concerns because they voted for the tax cuts supposedly causing our upcoming $1 trillion annual deficit in the first place.

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