NEW YORK — As America's crucial presidential election approaches, the campaign has reached a fever pitch, with Donald Trump and his cronies issuing increasingly radical promises of what they would do with power. But such promises — for example, regarding fiscal policy —will inevitably be broken. After all, it is mathematically impossible to cut taxes for corporations and billionaires, sustain basic programs like defense and Social Security, and lower the deficit simultaneously.
Some of the Trump campaign's more absurd promises come from Elon Musk, who claims to know how to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. This is quite rich, coming from someone whose companies depend so much on government contracts and bailouts (without the $465-million loan that it received from Barack Obama's administration, Tesla might well have gone under).
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