I was going to write about Steve Bannon today. Or maybe Harvey Weinstein. But I see that the usual suspects are writing about the fact that tax cuts won’t pay for themselves and won’t cut the deficit. So here goes. First, My Man Kevin D. Williamson. He’s all wigged out because the House Budget Committee Chair Diane Black (R-TN) is proposing sensible spending cuts while the Senate is proposing $1.5 trillion in tax cuts and $1 billion (with a B) in spending cuts. Back in the day, Kevin told ’em at the House Budget Committee: I told them as plainly as I could that the decisions made by their panel and its Senate counterpart over the next several years would very likely mean the difference between a relatively manageable national fiscal crisis at some point in the future and an uncontrollable national fiscal catastrophe with worldwide consequences. But actually, Kevin McScrooge, the chaps on the Budget Committees aren’t going to make a...(Read Full Article)