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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.
Hanlon's Razor applies here. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
You guys are so picky, c'mon. Math is hard.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This is all just part of Trump's Alternative Math program.
Calm down, people, we don't want a fight here. Let's put aside our differences and try for the possibility of lasting peach on this site.
You're treating a symptom while the disease rages on. The fish rots from the head. Why not cut off the head?
TRUMP: We're gonna have the biggest math errors! Way better and bigger errors than the democrats!! Nobody makes math errors better than me, believe me. No one's every had more than a trillion dollar math error. They said it couldn't be done. I'm really smart - I went to the Wharton School of Finance. We're gonna have errors more than, more, er, than TWO TRILLION DOLLARS!
Can't you people leave him alone for a single day? He finished up his orb business, then left the middle east to arrive at Israel, had a great time at the Holocaust museum and randomly decided to confess to outing an Israeli spy in front of Netanyahu - but all you people can do is make fun of his tiny, tiny hands.
You're treating a symptom while the disease rages on. The fish rots from the head. Why not cut off the head?
I really think we should give peas a chance.
Just like during the election, Trump continues to do things in a way that challenges the modern political orthodoxy. It is very clear that most politicians today conduct themselves in a very similar manner to each other, they're all good at "acting like a politician".
Trump continues to act in a way that is markedly not "like a politician". He speaks his mind (agreeing with what's said or not), nominates businessmen to senior posts instead of bureaucrats, speaks more openly with foreign leaders, etc, etc. Mostly, it's just a different way of doing things.
To a good chunk of the country, arguably even a majority now if some have flipped, they can't fathom anything but political orthodoxy and stories like this, and all of late, send them into an apoplectic rage. To me, I don't really care if there's a rounding error - the comment about a first-year economics student makes no sense. We didn't elect an economist, we elected someone who's going to try cutting the budget instead of successive govt's of both stripes growing them. Like all the Trump stories here I see silly focus on the non-important part of the conversation and quick jumps to demonize without understanding the substance. Just like during the election.
It's not a filler-filled pile, it's just full of fiber*.
(*) warning, may contain nuts.
these are the trolls you deserve though