GOP Releases Brutal '2019 Democratic Budget' Since Pelosi Refuses To Submit One
After the White House submitted President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for 2020, it was criticized and dismissed by congressional Democrats as being wholly unacceptable.
But at least Trump put forward a budget proposal in the first place, which is more than can be said about the Democrats who gained control of the House based in part on a promise to put it on a path toward the left’s vision of prosperity.
Rather than make substantial, if any, progress on putting together a budget for 2020 — much less for the 2019 Fiscal Year — Democrats have instead been focused on infighting between moderates and the far-left in the party, the upcoming 2020 election and the overarching goal to impeach Trump, or at least hamstring his administration’s agenda with pointless investigations.
In an email to The Western Journal, members of Republican National Committee’s Communications and Research team laid out a rough budget proposal on behalf of their Democratic colleagues based solely on a handful of major policies that various Democrats and 2020 presidential candidates have been pushing.
“(S)ince the Democrats would rather continue to focus on their political vendetta against President Trump instead of ‘really deal with hard issues,’ the RNC has decided to take the reins and release the 2019 Democratic Budget,” the email read.
Incredibly, just five of the Democrats’ major policies combined together for an estimated cost of $140.3 trillion, though it is unclear if that astronomical amount would be on an annual basis or spread out over ten years, as most congressional spending measures tend to be.
Regardless, such a sum is unfathomable considering the fact that the nation’s annual gross domestic product stands around $20 trillion, with annual federal spending levels around $4 trillion, about 20 percent of the GDP.
If that insane sum of more than $140 trillion in spending is for one year only, that is roughly 35 times the amount spent in 2018. Even if it were to be spread out over ten years at more than $14 trillion annually, as is the more likely case, that is still about 3.5 times more than current annual spending levels, and roughly 75 percent of the GDP, a thoroughly unsustainable and national wealth-destroying amount.
For the sake of argument, let’s take a moment to look at the five main policies and their estimated costs that reached a combined $140 trillion, first and foremost, the vaunted Green New Deal that Democrats have insisted is necessary to prevent imminent planetary destruction from climate change — though not a single Democratic senator voted for it.
Bloomberg reported in February that the American Action Forum, a Republican-aligned think tank run by a former member of the Congressional Budget Office, painstakingly studied and determined monetary values to the numerous environmental and societal proposals contained in the Green New Deal, and reached an estimated cost of anywhere between $51 and $93 trillion over a ten-year period.
The next policy up for consideration is reparations for slavery, for which several 2020 candidates have expressed their support. Newsweek cited a recent study by University of Connecticut researcher Thomas Craemer, who calculated the estimated hours worked by slaves during that era, as well as average wages for labor at the time, plus 3 percent compounded interest, to reach an estimated total sum for reparations of between $5.9 and $14.2 trillion.
Then there is government-run single-payer health care, often referred to as “Medicare for All,” which has also been touted by a number of 2020 candidates. Bloomberg reported that the Mercatus Center at George Mason University conducted a study and determined that extending Medicare’s health insurance for seniors program to all Americans would cost an estimated $32.6 trillion over ten years.
There’s also the proposed policy of a federal jobs guarantee, which would presumably achieve the goal of “full employment” by ensuring that every working-age individual had a job and “economic security,” even if only provided by the government. A 2018 study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concluded that a proposed program known as the National Investment Employment Corps would cost an estimated $543 billion annually, or $5.43 trillion over ten years.
Finally, there is the proposal of free college education for all, which even its staunchest supporter, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, admits would cost an estimated $600 billion over ten years, which supposedly could be paid for with more taxes on Wall Street.
Assuming the costs of all of those policies is spread out over ten years, just those five policies would add roughly $14.58 trillion in annual spending — $9.3 trillion for GND, plus $1.42 trillion, plus $3.26 trillion, plus $543 billion, plus $60 billion.
Those costs are nothing short of utter insanity and if the Democrats’ goal is to ruin this nation’s economy as a means to help usher in socialist control over everything, those five policies alone would near do it.
Truth and Accuracy
We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.
