And one such "progressive" is @LafayetteBear ..... And it is a glorious meltdown indeed.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...11/trump-musk-irs-pentagon-penny/78243290007/
At the behest of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk is flirting with audits of the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Education and the Pentagon. Forget wine and roses on Valentine's Day: That might be the most seductive sentence I've read in a long time.
A president and his top advisers are actually doing something to bring financial responsibility to the federal government? It's enough to make a fiscal conservative swoon.
Of course, not everyone is feeling the love. Democrats and much of the mainstream news media are howling like a dog that's lost its dinner. They've charged Trump with an unconstitutional overreach and Musk with being power-hungry. But taxpayers should be standing by with prosecco and praise for the administration's efforts to turn nonsense into common sense.
Consider one of Trump's latest pronouncements: The president on Sunday ordered the Treasury Department to stop making pennies because they have long been a losing proposition for taxpayers. In its 2024 annual report, the U.S. Mint said that each penny costs 3.69 cents to produce and distribute.
Even progressives' newspaper of record, The New York Times, noted last year that “the necessity of abolishing the penny has been obvious to those in power for so long that the inability to accomplish it has transformed the coin into a symbol of deeper rot.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...11/trump-musk-irs-pentagon-penny/78243290007/
At the behest of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk is flirting with audits of the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Education and the Pentagon. Forget wine and roses on Valentine's Day: That might be the most seductive sentence I've read in a long time.
A president and his top advisers are actually doing something to bring financial responsibility to the federal government? It's enough to make a fiscal conservative swoon.
Of course, not everyone is feeling the love. Democrats and much of the mainstream news media are howling like a dog that's lost its dinner. They've charged Trump with an unconstitutional overreach and Musk with being power-hungry. But taxpayers should be standing by with prosecco and praise for the administration's efforts to turn nonsense into common sense.
Consider one of Trump's latest pronouncements: The president on Sunday ordered the Treasury Department to stop making pennies because they have long been a losing proposition for taxpayers. In its 2024 annual report, the U.S. Mint said that each penny costs 3.69 cents to produce and distribute.
Even progressives' newspaper of record, The New York Times, noted last year that “the necessity of abolishing the penny has been obvious to those in power for so long that the inability to accomplish it has transformed the coin into a symbol of deeper rot.”
