GOP commentator makes a prediction about new House speaker

Political commentator Erick Erickson discusses the divide over aid for Ukraine and Israel inside the Republican party with CNN’s Jake Tapper. #CNN #News

[knightron]

Never heard the GOP talk about fiscal responsibility during trump's term where he added $8 Triilion to the national debt.

[racookster]

Funny how nobody mentions TRUMP'S HUGE TAX CUTS TO BILLIONAIRES, isn't it?

[DonKin-omyr]

The 3% need to give back their Trump cuts

[peterdhanes]

Time for the super-wealthy and corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes.

[soundthinking]

Johnson trying to get his rich slimeball friends a break by having the IRS not bother them as they crime away. Classic GOP.

[corwin]

Capitalism is failing because of Reganomics. Although they print money at any one time it is finite. The extremely wealthy get a much larger share of that money than 99% of everyone else. This is untenable. There has never been a country, civilization or culture that has survived the disparity in wealth that we have today.

[jjteacher]

Why is it always cut? Most of the wealth goes to the few who have worked for decades to rig the system. The Reagan, Bush's & Trump tax cut benefitted the few. Why do we continue to make the rest of us suffer?

[rdh]

Why are Republicans after the IRS? Seriously

[lbn]

THANK YOU JAKE TAPPER for your honest reporting

[JazzBanjo]

How about we increase revenue by taxing the uber rich their fair share? Cutting taxes for the wealthy is the whole reason we have a revenue-to-debt problem.

[hbgriss]

They will use everything to waste time. Then blame elsewhere

[SamadPathan_.]

The fact that Republicans see certifying a presidential election as a negative shows you the state of the party.

[teresagunn]

They should be cutting the huge tax benefits it gave to themselves and their billionaire friends use that money for aid to all 4 places!!

[steve]

His argument about a fiscal crisis is B.S. unless he wants to take back some of the Trump tax cuts for Billionaires and corporations...yeah, silence.

[jbtpa]

Instead of what to cut why AREN'T they looking at collecting every cent owed according to the bills they've passed?

[mrs-hp]

I would be so embarrassed if I were a Republican

[redalert]

There was a time, when George W. Bush was in the White House, when Republican incompetence was quite amusing. It's no joke any more: the entire future of the USA is dangling by a thread.

[susettehorspool]

Part of the problem with that 100% going to debt financing is that we have hardly any income, because billionaires are not paying the taxes they owe. Income is way lower than it should be, which is why the IRS needs that financing, so they can chase up the low or no-payers. Then Congress needs to pass legislation to increase what the 1% owes. We should be looking seriously at the huge divide between the 99% of us who don't have a lot, but are paying our share and the 1% who have the majority of income and AREN'T paying their share. It's not like they haven't benefitted by US taxes, after all. How are they shipping their goods (on roads, bridges, airports funded by the government)? Who's paying their employees for health care (talking to you, Walmart)? Who is paying to educate their employees, etc. etc.?

[ssmt]

It’s time to reverse the Bush and Trump tax cuts. That would be a good start to paying off the debt that America has incurred since Reagan. Unfortunately that still will not be enough to us out of the financial hole that we’ve dug for ourselves.

[pricillacollier]

I pay my IRS debt annually. Why not the rich.