No it is not. The budget is a wish list of where the
administration and congress plan to spend money, it does not
actually spend one single penny.
Here is another amazing klahnism for your entertainment.
If that is all there is to a budget, it would be really
easy to balance the budget. All you have to do is WISH for
it to be balanced!
Yep.
It is no fun when you illustrate his error by reducing his
position to an absurd conclusion, and then instead of
recognizing his error he embraces the absurdity.
You can balance the budget that way in the beginning of the
fiscal year, but not at the end.
There he is, folks, in his red nose and his floppy shoes, acting like a fool for the sake of entertaining people. Here, he has just done a complete back-flip.
This started with him making the the absurd claim that a budget surplus is not needed in order to pay off the federal debt. Just having a BALANCED budget, he said, would cause the debt to disappear over time.
In an effort to make that seem less stupid, he tried to argue that debt IS revenue. And he tried to argue that paying off debt IS spending. He later came up with a limited definition of "budget" as "wish list" which would mean that NO merely-wished-for surplus or deficit would EVER affect actual debt, since they are just wishes. And now, when the absurdity of that is pointed out to him, he uses "budget" in a manner that completely contradicts his own definition of the word.
Applaud. Laugh. He is putting on a show.
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