Ken
O’Brien
“The simplest way to understand these budgets is
surely to suppose that they are intended to do what they would, in fact,
actually do: make the rich richer and ordinary families poorer,” wrote Paul
Krugman, The New York Times ‘columnist and Noble Prize-winning
economist. “We’re looking at an enormous, destructive con job, and you should
be very, very angry.”
The GOP-controlled House and Senate budgets drastically
cut spending on education, retirement, environment, road and bridges, climate
change, immigration, job creation, Obamacare, food stamps, and other social
welfare programs. At the same time it gives the Pentagon a blank check, and
includes tax cuts for the rich and corporations while raising taxes for
lower-income Americans. That’s the analysis by
the National Priorities Project (NPP), not just Krugman, and they make an even
more disturbing point.
