Laffy

Via @emptywheel:

WOWOWOW.

It must really suck for all those people whose full time job it is to **report** on Congress who should have known better about this being an "offset."

Surely they're all crafting apologies for their subscribers right now?

Jake Sherman:

🚨 BREAKING -- CBO says the #House's #Israel aid bill is not offset at all.

Will add $12.5B to the deficit in the next decade.

Cuts to IRS will decrease revenue by $26.7B

Nov 1, 2023 at 3:15pmWeb
Show threadEnema CowboyNov 1, 2023

@GottaLaff @emptywheel

Revenue raising ideas.

1. Permits to hunt billionaires for sport.
2. Allow one state to secede. The one that offers the US the best deal wins. Then Puerto Rico can be made a state, and we won't have to change any flags.

Show threaddeilann v -0.2.1.  Nov 1, 2023
@Enema_Cowboy @GottaLaff @emptywheel the state does not necessarily need to make the case that they should secede - they can nominate another
Show threadEnema CowboyNov 1, 2023

@deilann @GottaLaff @emptywheel

Some of the states (mostly the same set as 160 years ago) are chomping at the bit to get out from under the heel of Washington D.C. Now as eager as we may be to get rid of some of them, there's a lot of US property that needs to get moved out. Then there's the matter of reimbursing US taxpayers for capital improvements, not to mention relocation stipends for those who wish to remain US citizens.

Show threaddeilann v -0.2.1.  Nov 1, 2023
@Enema_Cowboy @GottaLaff @emptywheel considering consequences sounds less like our government than a charity raffle style budget cutting
Show threadBrad PatrickNov 1, 2023
@GottaLaff @emptywheel Brilliant! Exactly as intended! #Burnitalldown The GQP have no business being near the levers of government at all.
Show threadMasterMischiefNov 1, 2023
@GottaLaff @emptywheel it's almost like Republicans don't care about the deficit.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaNov 1, 2023
@GottaLaff @emptywheel shows the stupidity of GOP tax cuts to the wealthy, too
Show threadKaryn CampbellNov 1, 2023
@ppatel @emptywheel @GottaLaff there are some who knew this was not an offset. I knew it was political games by Johnson.
Show threadMattNov 1, 2023

@GottaLaff @emptywheel it’s just so hard to use google though when your job is to uncritically report what Republicans say. Easy to miss stuff like this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-shrink-deficits-or-fund-bidens-spending-plans-give-the-irs-more-money/2021/03/25/2959bcd8-8d90-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html

For every extra dollar invested in the IRS, the government could be getting $6 back

Years of inadequately funding the IRS have left money on the table.

The Washington Post
Show threadJohn LuskNov 1, 2023

@GottaLaff @emptywheel

I don't think it's the reporters on the ground, actually. I bet they knew immediately. Something in the food chain above them transmogrified their stories into false-balance pablum.