Tax cuts and deficit financing are what has enabled the welfare state to grow so big.
If the middle class had to pay taxes to support the lazy, the lazy would get booted off the dole quickly.
We now have tens of millions of voters who have a strong financial incentive to vote Democratic.
We are one election away from one-party rule.
If you are so worried about the deficit and think raising taxes will close the gap then why not propose doubling the marginal a tax rates?
Don’t be such a downer. Trump’s in the White House and putting in conservative Supreme Court justices. The Dems control only the House. We already have very close to one-party rule...by the GOP. I’m not saying they’re all true conservatives in there but if there’s one party that’s getting shut out in the cold it’s the Demonrats.