All talk but no action on deficit
As a candidate for senator and while in office, Bob Corker talked about balancing the federal budget. When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) was being proposed, Sen. Corker stated that he would not support it if it added one cent to the federal deficit. Yet, he did vote in favor of it.
As of December 2019, the government is losing $600 billion more in tax revenue than initially thought, bringing the total cost of the TCJA to $1.6 trillion, according to the non-partisan Urban-Brookings Tax Center Policy. Now Bob Corker supports the efforts of the Millennial Debt Commission, a local group of business leaders who want to reduce the federal deficit. Accordingly, it appears that when all is said and done, more is said than done.
John J. Sabourin Jr.
Statues are insulting; get rid of them now