The GOP deficit ploy

It has happened sooner that I anticipated. When the Paul Ryan GOP 2017 tax cut plan went into effect, it wasn't long before the deficit blew up. The promised trickle down that was supposed to replace the lost taxes never occurred.

The money went into corporate stock buybacks but no improvement in the economic lives of ordinary workers. If anyone was surprised by that turn of events, they weren't alive when the previous Reagan and George W. Bush tax cuts produced the same deficit increase.

Historically, the Republicans then turn on a dime and blame the incoming Democratic Administration and demand frugality. They are extraordinarily successful at pulling off this ploy. One can only sit back and admire the consummate chutzpah as Mitch McConnell begins the current iteration of the campaign of disinformation, claiming we need to cut back. This in the middle of a crisis not seen since World War II.

Will it work again? We shall soon see.

Jill Versace

Naperville