President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TIME: President Trump's budget includes a simple accounting error that adds up to a $2 trillion oversight. Under the proposed budget released Tuesday, the Trump Administration's proposed tax cuts would boost economic growth enough to pay for $1.3 trillion in spending by 2027. But the tax cuts are also supposed to be revenue-neutral, meaning that trillion dollars is already supposed to pay for the money lost from the tax cuts. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers called the oversight an "elementary double count" and "a logical error of the kind that would justify failing a student in an introductory economics course" in an op-ed in the Washington Post.

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Re:Not an error. A lie.

[rickb928]

From his speech in Jerusalem:

"Earlier this week, I spoke at a historic summit in Saudi Arabia. There, I urged our friends in the Muslim world to join us in creating stability, safety and security. I was deeply encouraged by the desire of many leaders to join us in cooperation toward these shared and vital goals. Conflict cannot continue forever – the only question is when nations will decide that they have had enough."

And so your second statement is itself invalidated. The rest of your little rant, if of similar quality, is discredited also.

Re:Not an error. A lie.

[Archangel Michael]

Emoluments clause [wikipedia.org] that restricts members of the government from receiving gifts, emoluments, offices or titles from foreign states without the consent of the United States Congress

Funny, how that didn't apply to Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, her husband Bill "Blew Dress" Clinton who took Millions of dollars from Russia, while securing a deal to sell a larger percentage of Uranium to Putin.

If the Democrats didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any.