May 23, 2015

Jeb’s voodoo math: 2016 hopeful promises to wreck the budget — just like his brother did

Jeb’s voodoo math: 2016 hopeful promises to wreck the budget — just like his brother did

"Republicans like Paul Ryan and Jeb Bush are such huge fans of dynamic scoring because it enables them to reconcile two otherwise irreconcilable tenets of Republican economic policy: tax cuts are great, and deficits are bad. Cutting taxes reduces revenues and runs up the deficit – it happened when Reagan cut taxes, it happened when George W. Bush cut taxes, and it’s happening right now with Sam Brownback’s tax cut experiment in Kansas."