As Republican lawmakers fight to lower the United States' deficit, CNN’s Harry Enten claims Americans just don’t care about the country’s deficit as much as they do about tax breaks.
“All right, as we speak, President Trump is getting ready to head up to Capitol Hill to try to salvage his multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending cut program,” anchor John Berman said.
“We've spoken to at least one Republican who says he's a no on this today," Berman added. "Why? He says, ‘The spending cuts do not go far enough. They don't do enough to reduce the budget deficits.’ Here's a question, though. It's an age-old question when it comes to politics: do voters actually even care about deficits?”
“To quote [ESPN commentator] Stephen A. Smith, ‘they don't care,’” Enten said. “They don't care about those deficits. What are we talking about here? All right. Let's take a look. Cut taxes even if the deficit increases. Look at this, 60 percent overall say, cut those taxes, baby."
"What about Republicans?" Enten asked himself. "You know, they're the ones who are supposedly so concerned over the deficit, but even there, 74 percent say cut taxes, even if the deficit increases. Both overall and Republicans, they don't care, they don't care. In fact, the only ones who do seem to care are Democrats.”
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Enten added, “55 percent of Democrats are opposed to cutting taxes if the deficit increases, but when it comes to Republicans, we're talking three-quarters. The overall public, three-fifths don't care. They say cut those taxes even if the deficit increases.”
Berman noted voters never really care about deficits. “But the polls and the data here show something a little different.”
“Yeah!” Enten said. “Cut taxes even at the deficit increases now. You know, it's that 60 percent we spoke about. But back in 1996, the real last time where there really was a movement to bring that deficit down, bring that debt down. It was just 23 percent who said cut taxes even at the deficit increases. So we've seen a tripling, far more than doubling, of the percentage of Americans who say that we should cut those taxes, even if the deficit increases.”
Enten noted the last president to lower the debt was Calvin Coolidge — who left office in 1929.
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