Alabama congressional candidate Tabitha Isner has no clue how deficits work

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October 2, 2018

Long-shot Alabama Democratic congressional candidate Tabitha Isner wants to raise your taxes. Granted, she won’t say it like that. Instead, she will argue we need to end the tax cuts.

This argument is quite different than most Democrats were arguing during the debate over these tax cuts, they were arguing that the tax cuts were permanent for business and only temporary for individuals. Not that Isner knows this but that was due to budgeting rules and the plan was to make those cuts permanent all along.

Now it is happening and Isner is not happy about those tax cuts being made permanent.

Yesterday, the House voted to extend the tax cuts. Those cuts are exploding the deficit, so the GOP says it'll start cutting Social Security and Medicare next. Tax cuts for the wealthy on the backs of our Seniors? No thanks, Martha Roby. #alpolitics https://t.co/yr90mTqJdm

— Tabitha Isner (@TabithaK) September 30, 2018

She’s not the only Alabama Democrat who doesn’t understand what is going on. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-7) slammed President Donald Trump’s tax cuts that were passed last year and criticized the new tax cut legislation.

The reality is far different from her understanding of how the federal government works and how tax cuts have impacted the federal budget.

Tax revenue is actually up since the tax cuts have taken place. According to CNSNews.com, “The federal government collected a record $1,521,589,000,000 in individual income taxes through the first eleven months of fiscal 2018.”

The reason our deficits and debt are growing is that we continue to spend more money than we bring in.

Per CNSNews, “[T]he federal government also ran a deficit of $898,112,000,000 for those eleven months.”

Again, we are bringing in more money than ever, but we are spending more than we bring in.

Obviously, that means we have a spending problem instead of a tax problem.

Isner’s analysis is just plain wrong. Additionally, and more importantly, she isn’t actually concerned about budget issues at all. She is still pushing the insane “Medicare for All” program with no real plan to pay for it.