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Why Republicans won’t reveal their spending cuts
« on: February 03, 2023, 03:30:38 AM »
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-republicans-wont-reveal-their-spending-cuts-172121419.html

House Republicans seem to be tying their own shoelaces together, because spending cuts, while popular in theory, are abhorrent in practice. Everybody wants somebody else's spending cut. Nobody wants their own spending cut. It’s true, as Republicans and some Democrats claim, that federal borrowing is on an unsustainable path. But the mushrooming federal debt is the result of reckless behavior by both political parties during the last 20 years, and neither party is going to risk voter wrath by getting serious about fixing America’s finances now.