First, I agree with you. Now that that’s out of the way…
Why should the government spend less when the GOP just demonstrated that deficits don’t matter as long as the money goes to people and the economy improves to cover the deficits? How are they going to argue in the future when the Dems take Congress (and eventually the White House) and want to increase welfare spending because that money goes to the people, who will spend it, increasing the economy to cover any deficits? The GOP is screwed either way on this bill. Their only hope is to keep control of Congress, and that looks doubtful. And beyond all that, they just forfeited the moral high ground to complain about the National Debt.
