Republicans’ Deficit-Cut Pledge Lacks Specifics

Republicans’ Deficit-Cut Pledge Lacks Specifics, In their Pledge to America, Congressional Republicans have used the old trick of promising specific tax cuts and vague spending cuts. Republicans’ Deficit-Cut Pledge Lacks Specifics, It’s the politically easy approach, and it is likely to be as bad for the budget as when George W. Bush tried it.Republicans’ Deficit-Cut Pledge Lacks Specifics

The sad thing is, a truly conservative approach to the deficit does exist. You can find strands of it among Republican governors, some of the party’s current Congressional candidates and the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan. The brief version might sound something like this: The federal government has outgrown its ability to pay for itself.