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The ballooning Trump deficit makes everything more expensive.

The Republican Congress is letting Trump blow up the national debt with his tax breaks for billionaires: auto loans, mortgage interest, and small business loans are going to cost an arm and a leg more, unless we get Trump’s fiscal, bullheaded and capricious foolishness under control. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Republican House version of his budget bill will increase the deficit by $2.8 trillion over the next ten years; the Republican Senate version has it at $3.3 TRILLION. The non-profit Committee for a Responsible Budget has the overall debt increase due to the Trump bill at $3.9 TRILLION. Yikes. But that's what happens when you lavish tax breaks on the ultra-wealthy, while slashing and pulverizing a great nation's government that is meant to serve us all.   

In addition, there is much talk of looming big dollar bailouts for those Trump likes (mostly in Red states), to make up for the damage done by his tariffs to certain of his pet constituencies, and of course that will add to the costs of most average taxpayers, including here in California, while increasing the deficit even more. Republicans have famously been known to shriek about the deficit, but history shows that time after time, they’re the ones who grow it grotesquely. We just can't afford this Republican-controlled Congress, which is so acquiescent and even complicit in the face of massive presidential overreach and ethical breach. We need actual checks and balances with a fiscally responsible Congressional majority. Vote YES on Prop 50!