Republicans move to spend billions on Obamacare — before they kill it

[Benton]

(01-16-2017, 01:17 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Contract with America was a plan.

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/mind-gop-pussycats

Quote: My colleagues Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski found that the combined budgets of the 95 major programs that the Contract with America promised to eliminate have increased by 13%.

Republicans have gotten very, very good at naming things to drum up support. If they'd called it what it was — Contract to Increase Government to Support Our Campaign Supporters — it probably wouldn't have ushered in the next great generation of tax cuts for the wealthy and large companies at the expense of workers and small businesses.