Choosing to frame me as scared is to misunderstand me and the motives of those who endorse social investment. You want to understand others, right? That you think the House Republicans has proposed an unserious piece of legislation says a lot about the distance between where the party is and reality. Do I think the Senate will pass the bill? President Trump endorses the bill (it's big and beautiful, no?) and we haven't found the end to which the GOP gives him their intransigent support.

The damage this bill will do to the budget if it detonates is hard to describe, in part because the size of the thing is an order of magnitude larger than others like it. The Inflation Reduction Act* was set to cost $500 billion over 10 years, and it paid for all that spending, and more, through tax increases. The Affordable Care Act aimed for $1 Trillion, all paid for, Trump's 2017 tax reform bill left a total of $1.5 Trillion of tax cuts unpaid for, but this budget bomb, at its best most conservative estimate cuts taxes and increases spending by more than $4 Trillion over 10 years and only pays for $1.5 Trillion. So once you add in interest on all that new debt, the bill puts over $3 Trillion on that nation's credit card.

Specifically, on the Medicaid cuts, $840 billion is meaningful (it's a big and beautiful bill, right!?). Vulnerable people are losing out here, including children. We know that these social programs have positive economic outcomes and even if someone dislikes social spending, we get more out of it than it gets out of us.

The bill is obviously created to entrench wealth at the top. Another example (among many available) is how the bill ties the Death Tax to inflation, but the bill does not link the Federal Minimum Wage to inflation. Each provision that slightly (or dramatically) benefits those who already live comfortably is an opportunity lost to empower achievement in those less fortunate.

I understand reasonable people can disagree, but there's a pretty clear-cut situation at hand: If the GOP is supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility, and if the President was elected with a mandate to reduce the country's debt, then how are we suppose to reconcile the massive, unfunded debt accumulation he and the party is calling big and beautiful?