Former Treasury Secretary Lew Says Tax Cuts Will Leave the U.S. Broke

The tax bill does the opposite of what anxious voters were calling for says Jack Lew, former U.S. Treasury Secretary.Source: Bloomberg
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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said the Trump administration’s decision to add a significant amount of debt through last year’s tax legislation is leaving the country broke.

“It’s a ticking time bomb in terms of the debt,” Lew said in a Bloomberg Radio interview with Tom Keene and Jonathan Ferro. “You cannot run a fiscal policy by spending trillions of dollars you don’t have at a time that the economy is doing well.”