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Trump Budget Director Admits Their Goal Is High Inequality, Not Low Deficits
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 12, 2017 11:51am |
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| Author | Jonathan Chait |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 12, 2017 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | What makes Mulvaney’s comments so unusual is not only their frankness, but also their comprehensiveness. Republican politicians tend to segregate their discussion of taxes and spending, so that they can frame their opposition to transfer payments as concern about deficits, while framing their desire of regressive tax cuts as being unrelated to deficits. Mulvaney, who is known in Washington as a budget hawk’s budget hawk, is essentially conceding that deficits have nothing to do with the Republican fiscal agenda. |
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