Debt Without Decency

Deficits and debt matter, unless there is wealth to transfer to the obscenely rich.

Where have all the deficit hawks gone? Are they migratory—only flying in when a Democrat is in the White House? How do they rationalize adding trillions of dollars to the debt?

A Big Bill With No Conscience

The same Republicans who once warned of “fiscal collapse” if we extended child tax credits or expanded health care are now silent—or worse, complicit—as the deficit balloons under policies that overwhelmingly benefit billionaires and corporations.

What happened to the principled conservatives who claimed they couldn’t in good conscience saddle our grandchildren with debt? Are they expecting the obscenely rich billionaires they're planning to gift with money to pay it off?

Or do they think we’ve stopped paying attention?

Once again, we see the truth: Deficits and debt are only a crisis when poor families are getting help. But when it comes to transferring wealth to the top 0.1%, suddenly the money is there.

And we must ask again, not for the first time, not for the last: Have they no decency?