"America has a problem..."
America has a problem. It’s called Congress. Or, the way Congress spends our tax money. And the way Congress authorizes the borrowing of money...
What's going on here? Our economy is growing at the best pace in years, and we have to borrow a trillion! Why are we doing this?
What is particularly unsettling is the performance of the Republican Party. The GOP did very well railing against Obama's doubling of the national debt. But now it runs the House, the Senate and the White House, and it increases spending all over again.
And the lack of budget discipline isn't the only problem..
National reciprocity was introduced in the Senate on March 1, 2017, and we have now hit the 48 week mark but [Senate Majority "leader"] McConnell is still looking the other way...
Failure to hold the line on spending places an unnecessary financial burden on future generation's, while failure to enact "common sense" reciprocity legislation burdens citizen's traveling interstate with the dilemma of having to choose whether to be "legal" or "safe."
Who cares about the "problem?" Good question. We will probably know the answer come next election.
/fl