The $11T gap between White House and economists on Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-11-trillion-gap-between-white-house-and-economists-on-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-080017492.html

by thomassmith65 • 1 year ago

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zug_zug• 1 year ago

It's very rare that I see an article on a topic like this that seems to be succinct, not assume any existing knowledge, and make me leave feeling more informed in < 80 seconds. Maybe personal taste, but I love it.

thomassmith65• 1 year ago

It's also one of the rare articles whose NYT-style scroll-hijacking is a benefit rather than a nuisance.

pjc50• 1 year ago

This is about as close as mainstream journalism can get to saying "the President has made up the numbers".

Taikonerd• 1 year ago

This makes me so mad. Not just that DOGE and friends cut all sorts of important programs. And not just that the savings were routed directly into tax cuts for the rich.

I mean, yes, those things, but also the sheer disregard for the facts. "Those numbers make us look bad, so they're false. I can't provide you with any details, they're just wrong somehow. Don't worry about it."

firejake308• 1 year ago

White House doing girl math now. In the words of Two Minute Papers, what a time to be alive

whbrown• 1 year ago

'girl math'? really? It's literally a bunch of old men and always has been.

vyaa• 1 year ago

You leave girl math out of this.

bentt• 1 year ago

So when things are grim in 2028 what’s the plan for the election? Blame Obama?

os2warpman• 1 year ago

what’s the plan for the election?

Boogeyman. It's always a boogeyman.

Recently, we've had transgendered people, antifa, DEI, migrants, and sleepy joe. As the acute impact wears off they switch to something else based on A-B testing of which generates the most fear.

It'll be something, but what?

Honestly my bet is on black people. They're going to go full-on racist. We'll probably see shit about phrenology, genetics, and degeneracy with the historically successful (to their target audience) descriptors of vermin and leeches.

All of this bullshit to lower taxes for billionaires and enable their successionist libertarian microstate fantasies.

krapp• 1 year ago

It's going to be all of the above and they'll probably start talking about AOC's kill list again.

jfengel• 1 year ago

The remarkable part: it's going to work.

It would have worked in 2020, too. It took a full-on global pandemic to stop it, and that only briefly.

The formula works, and it keeps on working.

Mobius01• 1 year ago

If we go by prior behavior, blame the Biden administration, blame our trading partners and allies (if we have any left by then), then democratic states, then immigrants, then minorities and the more vulnerable in society… eventually they may turn on their own escape goats.

It’s hard to believe a superpower could self-sabotage so throughly.

The $11T gap between White House and economists on Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill

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