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That’s not relevant to this discussion. Congress already authorized the spending in question. The debt limit is about whether we’ll pay the bills we already pro
by KerrAvon 4y ago
That’s not relevant to this discussion. Congress already authorized the spending in question. The debt limit is about whether we’ll pay the bills we already promised to pay (the sane position), or instead behave like Trump or Elon Musk stiffing their contractors (which would be very, very bad when it’s the USA government doing it).
If you want to limit spending, you have to do it at appropriations time, which is when Congress decides what to spend money on. That’s when you can sanely have the “should we spend all the money we don’t have” argument.
Do note that Reagan spent money “we didn’t have” like it was going out of style. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, left office with a surplus, promptly squandered by George W. Bush, whose hole we are still digging out of. Trump made this a lot worse, of course, because that’s all he’s capable of doing with any situation.
- meragrin_ 4y ago> If you want to limit spending, you have to do it at appropriations time, which is when Congress decides what to spend money on. Yet, you say: > Do note that Reagan spent money “we didn’t have” like it was going out of style. No blaming of the Democrats in control of the House? > Bill Clinton, on the other hand, left office with a surplus So the Republican congress under the majority of Clinton's tenure had nothing to do with the spending? > promptly squandered by George W. Bush Yeah, that had nothing to do with 9/11, the dot com bust, or the Democratic congress which contributed to at least third of the debt under Bush even though they represent a quarter of Bush's term.