There are a couple of truisms that apply to today's Republican Party.
1. Republicans love rich people and don't care about other Americans.
2. Republicans love to whine about the national debt, but don't really care about it.
If you doubt that, congressional Republicans are preparing to prove it.
Other than giving Trump what he wants, the congressional Republicans have only one things they believe in enough to pass - reauthorizing the Trump tax cuts ((which are soon going to expire).
These cuts primarily benefitted the rich when they were passed a few years ago, and it will be the same this time. At least half of the tax cuts will go to the richest 5% of Americans, while the other 95% will have to divide up the rest.
They don't seem to care that it is estimated that passing these tax cuts for the rich will balloon the national debt by $4 to $6 trillion dollars. That's the same national debt that they whined was too large when a Democrat was in the White House.
There are two ways to lower the national debt - raise taxes or cut benefits. We know they won't raise taxes because they are preparing to cut them again (especially for the rich). They claim they will cut government spending to offset the deficit cutting taxes will do.
Where will the cuts happen. It won't be the government giveaways to the rich and corporations. No! Instead, the cuts will be to the help the poor, the working class, and the lower middle class get. Unlike millionaires and billionaires, these people actually need the government help they get. Unfortunately, the Republicans don't care. They will cut help for people who need it so they can give more to the rich.
And those cuts will not be enough to offset the massive tax cut for the rich. The national debt will be ballooned.
To be blunt, today's Republicans love the rich (and no one else) and don't care about the national debt. Their own actions prove that to be true!
