“… because if we continue the current trajectory of spending, it just goes up like a rocket,” South Carolina Senator and long-shot Republican presidential nominee Tim Scott asserts without noting that deficits would be righted if the ultra-wealthy paid a fair share of taxes, something Republicans oppose. “If we went t- –there’s no longer Covid, by the way. We can’t use that as an excuse. Someone say, thank God, right? So if we went back to the level of spending before we had a crisis, it would reduce our spending by billions of dollars.”