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Donald Trump has a gift for rhetoric and hyperbole, but there really is no more oxymoronic term when it comes to the U.S. Congress than Big Beautiful Bill. Perhaps the greatest reason American politicians have been able to hide their corruption, pork, and waste is their standard procedure of passing bills that are 1000s of pages, written in indecipherable legalese. Congress and the public have little or no time to review before voting, so by the time Americans figure out what’s in the bills, all they can do is get angry and promise themselves to vote differently in the next election. Then, come election time, the politicians go back to pretending their fiscal conservatives and whip up hate for their “much worse” opponent, after which we go back to square one.
Media apologists will describe the process as necessary with all the horse trading to get to a majority vote, but that can no longer be acceptable as an excuse. You need a seemingly kamikaze President who will say “F*ck your DC swamp bullshit! Give me a balanced budget with sustainable spending cuts, or we will shut down the government, default on loan payments, whatever it takes!” And almost as important, it’s critical to get the deepest swampy creatures out of the party leadership positions in both houses. If that happens, you’re more likely to get clear single issue bills that everyone supposedly wants passed. For example, nearly all members of both parties want to extend the soon-to-expire Trump tax cuts from 2017, although there is disagreement on some of the upper income brackets and the State and Local Tax deduction limits. It shouldn’t be that difficult to find a compromise on this single-issue bill. However, current party leaders never even let such a vote take place. Instead, they package something everyone wants in a Big Bankrupting Bill that allows them to pack on all their pork and corruption.
One of most deceptive lies used by politicians and media is to say “xxxx politician voted for/against xxxx.” This is especially prevalent in political commercials where you hear “My opponent voted against a raise for teachers,” “He voted to restrict gun rights,” “She voted against a tax cut for the midddle class,” etc. These ads would be honest if they were actually a single-issue vote, but they almost never are. They’re combined with a thousand other things, and politicians must either vote for or against the whole bill.
You’re seeing the perfect illustration in Trump’s Big Bloated Bill. There are plenty of great things in it related to tax cuts and immigration, which libertarians like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie wholeheatedly support, but they’ve forced to come out against the bill because, as usual, it’s packaged with deficit-exploding spending that Republicans were elected to remove.
Enough with these massive bills! Put up streamlined, single issue bills or nothing! And if it’s something like extending Trump’s tax cuts, any politicians who votes against can be deservedly bludgeoned in future elections, with no excuses to explain their votes.
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