Republican U.S. representatives, including Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, are either misinformed about the tax bill’s benefit for low- and middle-income citizens or they don’t care.
This bill has been reviewed by many outstanding economists and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. While it initially gives tax breaks to lower- and middle-income people, these tax breaks evaporate over time while the much larger tax breaks for high-income people and large corporations remain. The bill will add about $1.5 trillion to the national debt and will not stimulate the economy.
Bruce Bartlett, who once advised Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, said that tax cuts do not stimulate job growth and this has been proved over and over. He has written an article regarding this, published Nov. 20 in The Guardian.
Their vote for the tax bill will hurt those most vulnerable in the long run. I suspect that, to lower the deficit, the Republican Party will next cut spending on Medicaid and Medicare. Give to the rich and take from the poor. This is not what the preamble to the Constitution says we should be about nor is it what Jesus preached. Shame on them.
