Will the new tax plan mean the end of Social Security and Medicare as we know it?
In fact, both the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate that, even assuming historically high levels of growth, the pending tax cuts will still add over a trillion dollars to the debt over the next 10 years. Similarly, a recent survey of 38 leading economists unanimously agreed the GOP tax bills would cause the U.S. debt to increase substantially faster than the economy.
Ordinarily, projections like these would stop true Republican deficit hawks in their tracks, except for the fact that soaring debt projections are exactly the point of these tax cuts. The thinking is pretty simple, if cynical: if you can’t muster the support to cut entitlements outright, just make future benefits impossible to pay for.
Republican leadership has already tipped their hand toward this “starve the beast” strategy. In a recent interview, Speaker Paul Ryan said his members “have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit.” Staying on message, Senator Marco Rubio reiterated that “you also have to bring spending under control. . .The driver of our debt is the structure of Social Security and Medicare for future beneficiaries.” And President Donald Trump announced last week that welfare reform will “take place right after taxes, very soon, very shortly after taxes.”
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