Scot Lehigh (@globescotlehigh) 's Twitter Profile
Scot Lehigh

@globescotlehigh

Op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe. Currently featured in my twitter header: @MarciaCrumley's painting "Daylight Fading."

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Vaughn Hillyard Peter Navarro is basically that tax guy you find in the yellow pages. You arrive and are lead into a dark wet basement and there is Pete under one yellow ceiling Lamp with a PC from the 90’s The financial crypt keeper.

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It not clear to me that MAGA can either walk or chew gum competently, let alone do both of these complex tasks at the same time.

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Here, Peter is essentially repeating that age-old supply-side lie that tax cuts pay for themselves, but doing it in jargony code.

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Notice that Senator Kennedy doesn't say you either believe in fiscal discipline or you don't. Or you either believe in reducing deficits or you don't. And for good reason: This bill does neither -- and despite his cornpone act, he knows it.

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Actually, it's truth-check time, and this new law, with its tax cuts, will mean a big increase in national debt and yearly deficits.

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So: It's fine to take votes that will amount to a big net increase in deficits as long as you vote for relatively small spending cuts along the way? Isn't that essentially theatrics?

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Cutting diplomats is penny wise but pound foolish. My old boss, SECDEF Bob Gates, used to point out that DOD has more people in military bands than the number of foreign service officers. They punch above their weight and deserve better than this. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

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And everyone who voted for it voted to continue to give most of those tax breaks to upper earners -- and by so doing, to swell the national debt and annual budget deficits. Senator Cornpone knows that.

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Rosie has vexed his majesty! Thankfully, King Donald the Tariffer will only banish her, not clap her in irons as a stern 16th regent might. ihttps://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/12/nation/rosie-odonnell-donald-trump-citizenship/?s_campaign=sharetool_Twitter_view via The Boston Globe

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So, after six months of futility, Trump has essentially moved to Biden's policy on Ukraine, Ditto on Iran. If only he were a little quicker study . . . Trump backs Kyiv in war with Russia through weapons and threats to Moscow wapo.st/44uvzcL

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Is it just me or do both the Post and the Times seem to be doing more silly stories on everyday matters that should be self-evident to anyone who is, say, awake? Or even, in this case, asleep . . . Do you use a fan to sleep? Here’s what to know. wapo.st/40Y49d3