Inaccurately Describing the Awfulness of the Trump Budget Bill Worsens Debt Panic, Hurting Everyone
To be clear, the bill that congressional Republicans dutifully passed and that Donald Trump signed on the country's nominal birthday last Friday was bad. Very bad. It seems safe to say that dooming tens of millions of people to needlessly early and painful deaths is bad. In fact, I would venture to say that it is not good, because it is a massive upward redistribution of wealth, with health care and food assistance being taken away from the non-rich in order to partially fund a massive tax cut for the richest Americans and large corporations. Yes, it is literally taking medicine away from sick people and food away from babies to make billionaires richer. (And I do mean literally , not in the silly "my head literally exploded" non-sense but in the "this is in fact what will happen" sense.) So again: both bad and not good. The problem is that there is a sloppy and misleading way to describe what is bad about that bill, and unsurprisingly, it involv...