Cass Ballenger: “if you take a look at this chart here, you will notice that the Republican budget proposal will reduce the debt held by…”

“if you take a look at this chart here, you will notice that the Republican budget proposal will reduce the debt held by the public by approximately $2 trillion. You will also notice that the Republican debt reduction proposal bears absolutely no relation whatsoever to the rhetoric we are hearing on the other side of the aisle. Democrat after Democrat, over the past several weeks, has come down to the House floor and railed against the Republican tax cut proposal, claiming that it would do nothing for debt reduction, do nothing for Social Security, blah, blah, blah. But our proposal reduces the debt by $2 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office confirms this. Not only that, but the Congressional Budget Office scores our budget proposal as $200 billion better on debt reduction than the Democrat plan. In other words, our plan reduces the debt more than the Democrats do. How are we to take their rhetoric seriously? How can we possibly have an honest debate, when our budget proposal is routinely mischaracterized and misrepresented beyond any recognition? All I can say is thank God for C-SPAN.”