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Republicans are only deficit hawks when it comes to spending money on things every day people benefit from. If they actually gave even a single shit about the d
by babypuncher 7mo ago
Republicans are only deficit hawks when it comes to spending money on things every day people benefit from. If they actually gave even a single shit about the deficit, they wouldn't hand billionaires massive tax breaks every single time they take power.
- CalChris 7mo agoReagan campaigned against Carter’s profligate spending.
- babypuncher 7mo agoAnd then proceeded to blow up the deficit even more himself. What they campaign on and what they actually do are different things.
- tstrimple 7mo agoAnd then blew up the deficit and started our massive accumulation of debt. A pattern gleefully followed by every single Republican administration since. Every single Democratic administration since has reduced the deficit the "spend and give tax breaks" Republicans have run up. But it's a losing battle clearly.
- CalChris 7mo agoCarter reduced the deficit as well until the recession hit in 1979 and tax revenues decreased.
- scoofy 7mo agoIt really is like our body politic is still mentally stuck in 1980. It's crazy. Republicans still campaign on "balancing the budget" while demonstrably being responsible for all the major explosions of debt we have experienced in our lifetime. The whole thing is absurd.