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.

[GLMDesigns]

The IRS looks at his taxes every year. So, unless you're saying that the IRS has not done its job his taxes have been checked.

All this is supposition upon supposition. If true he gets funds from others (pay for play) then he deserves to go to be disgraced, impeached and go to jail. Now, that applies to all politicians, including those with charities pressuring others to "contribute."

We're pretty positive the Clintons have done that for years. We have NO evidence of that for Trump. (Yet) Nonetheless you call him Herr Donald. Do you go Herr Bill as well? (There's a pun there somewhere.)

Re the election. GTFOH. There was no hack of an election. This is a tech site, remember?
Wikileaks has been more honest than the NYTs and they've been insisting that it was leak.

Re:Not an error. A lie.

[Anonymous Coward]

In a sense im not sure it matters anymore. Speaking from the perspective of canadian, the US government seems totally messed up from top to bottom.

I mean, if trump gets impeached you still get crappy people taking his job... it's just a constant stream of crap. Yet the internet seems rife with americans that seem to think everything is fine and great or want to blame it on that other guy, as if that helps the situation they are currently in.

Rightly or wrongly, it seems like america as, a sum of the whole, has some sort of mental illness.

Re:Obamacare did same thing

[Archangel Michael]

Thanks for proving the point of the GP. You're so stupid you can't even figure out that enough people aren't falling for that name calling crap anymore, especially when the Feminist Enabler to the former Rapist in Chief called everyone that disagreed with her candidacy "Basket of deplorables"

You know who is racist? All those people excusing everyone's inablities to function in society on their skin color (Democrats)

"Can't you pull up your pants?" ... "RACIST!!!" (I still don't see what skin color has to do with properly securing garments to one's body)

Re:Not an error. A lie.

[Archangel Michael]

With a mallet made of depleted uranium.

Secured by Hillary Clinton and massive donations to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, and speaking fees to the former Rapist in Cheat Bill.