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A Subsidized Citizen Is An Expropriated Citizen
In a statement posted on Twitter/X, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) said:
REMINDER: The single biggest driver of our national debt for the last 25 YEARS have been Republican-led tax cuts.
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) August 21, 2026
Senator Murray’s claim that tax reductions are the cause of the national debt relies on a fundamental distortion of political economy—one that treats uncollected private earnings as a government loss rather than property left with its rightful owners. Blaming a deficit on tax cuts is functionally identical to a compulsive overspender blaming his credit card…
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