The national debt is kind of like the Washington Redskins. Soaring debt and spiking federal spending was a touchstone of the conservative movement years ago. The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation has valued those various tax breaks as adding an additional $427 billion onto the national debt. It will be interesting to see how Republicans try to portray liberal Democrats on the “spending” issue going into this November. But, like the national debt, we’ll see if things really change.

Source: Fox News January 03, 2020 03:45 UTC