I do feel sorry for Erick Erickson, I really do. He so wants to be part of the political system of the United States, but both Parties are really going downhill, as I noted here.
And now he notes it here.
We are expected to cheer on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act because it is the Republican bill.
This Republican bill adds to the deficit, adds to the debt, picks winners and losers, raises the debt ceiling beyond the $37 trillion in existing debt, and just rearranges deck chairs as the nation sinks into insolvency. It is fiscally irresponsible.
Without its passage, taxes will go up. That is the only real justification for this legislation. But taxes are going to go up on everyone significantly eventually because this legislation does not seriously tackle the issues of our fiscal solvency and uses sleights of hand to suggest any real benefit.
The Senate version of the plan will raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion. The House wanted to raise it $4 trillion. We will be crossing $40 trillion in debt soon.
I cannot help but notice how he clings to the spectre of higher taxes as if it’s the worst thing in the world, even worse than those baby-killers he imagines exists. But this paragraph is better yet:
This piece of legislation will not win or lose an election in November of next year. But it will also not have the stimulative effect so many of its cheerleaders want to claim. It may offset some of the costs of tariffs, but will saddle us with more debt and ultimately drive up interest rates to burden Americans, disincentivize the creation of families, and put more young workers on the path towards socialism as they blame market forces instead of Washington for their economic stagnation.
Erickson recognizes the Republican tenet of lower taxes – never mind cutting health-enhancement measures that improve worker productivity – do have a limit.
But will he recognize the corruption endemic to the Republicans? I’m sure he knows the Democrats’ ideology is the anchor around their necks, and not the pro-choice position; but the moral character of his fellow conservatives is doing worse than the Democrats, so far as I can see.
Go read his piece. It’s a painful bit of agony, and I do mean it when I say I feel sorry for him. But it’s his problem, not mine.
