There is no “empty till” - the printing presses are how government spending inflates the money supply and the economy driving prices slowly but relentlessly higher. If a certain amount is needed to be refunded over what was taxed this year , then cut next year’s taxes and give them the difference.
Do you call not jumping from a three-story building being a “purist”? Something called the law of gravity keeps you from make such a stupid statement.
Well economics also has laws that if broken also have detrimental effects. And yet you think that sticking to what is economically sound is uselessly being a “purist”. Well, too many like you for too long have acquiesced to the unconstitutional and economically disastrous policies of the Left because you don’t want to be “purist.”
Time to stick to what’s sound and true and stop compromising with hell - as Hayek called it - the Road to Serfdom. Now is a prefect time for Trump to fight this battle and show the Left for who they really are - thieves and liars. But you’d rather take the expedient road - the road of least resistance. OK well the end of that road there’s hell to pay.
You slough off economically unsound “stimulus” now with some vague “making it up later”. But my FRiend, “later” never comes. NOW IS later and now is the time to draw the line. Every time you delay the absolute necessity of cutting government spending and growth it become harder to do the next time.
Rots a Ruck on that one.
“There is no “empty till” - the printing presses are how government spending inflates the money supply and the economy driving prices slowly but relentlessly higher. If a certain amount is needed to be refunded over what was taxed this year , then cut next year’s taxes and give them the difference.”
Already been done for three years.
You have two forces of nature involved here, economics and politics. Sure, it would be great economics to refuse to give relief to small businesses, airlines, citizens. But it would be lousy politics, because they would vote for the guy offering the free stuff, and economics be damned. Two conflicting forces of nature, however, are managed all the time. Any sailboat that goes into a headwind has to strike a balance between the pull of the wind on one side, and the push of the wind on the other. When the wind is 45 degrees forward, you have to utilize the pull. When it’s directly abeam, you utilize the pull and the push in equal proportions, but have to struggle against the imbalance created by putting weight a-weather, so you don’t tip over. If the wind is at your back, you can rely on the push alone and sail with an even keel. I submit to you that the pull of politics right now requires a stimulus, and that the push of economics threatens to unbalance the country, so ballast must be employed to keep the whole damned thing afloat. I.e., a stimulus, but a trimmed down stimulus with no money for concert halls, planned parenthood, insolvent pension plans and other crap.