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Trump’s austerity snake oil

It’s a decades-old GOP playbook: Cut taxes for the rich, which explodes deficits, then argue the middle-class has to bear “pain.”

Trump surrogate Elon Musk, who will head the 47th president’s efficiency commission, is proposing cutting a third of spending, but won’t say what will be cut. That’s part of the GOP playbook, too.

They promise not to cut Social Security and Medicare, but there being no other way to cut spending that much, after they’ve fooled voters they’ll say those cuts are “necessary.”

As P. T. Barnum said, there are fools born every minute. And I would add, they all vote Republican. Read story here.

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