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Native, lifelong Southern Californian. Solar powered house (since 2007) and two electric cars. Avid bird watcher (bird nerd).
Native, lifelong Southern Californian. Solar powered house (since 2007) and two electric cars. Avid bird watcher (bird nerd).
Financially irresponsible government?
Republicans consistently explode the deficit. In more than 60 years, no Republican has ever reduced an annual budget deficit from one year to the next, much less actually eliminated it and gotten all the way to zero (surplus). The last Republican president to reduce an annual budget from one year to the next was liberal Eisenhower, with a top marginal tax rate out of 13 brackets that never fell below 90% and was as high as 94% at one point. And he presided over what is arguably the most prosperous era of widespread broad-based middle-class prosperity in our history.
In the same time period, four Democrats have reduced the annual budget deficits — LBJ, Clinton, Obama and Biden. LBJ and Clinton got all the way to surplus (Clinton each of his last four years in office). Obama reduced the enormous deficit he inherited from Dubya Bush every year in office except his first. So far, Biden has reduced the enormous deficit he inherited from Trump every year in office, though neither of them got all the way to surplus.
And when Democrats spend, it is on economic INVESTMENTS that grow the economy, such as infrastructure, education and the things that make us more productive.
In contrast, Reagan, both Bushes and Trump all exploded the deficit with irresponsible military spending, corporate welfare and tax giveaways to the few richest elites at the top.
Fiscally irresponsible Republicans and conservatives have a lot of nerve to wag their deficit spending fingers in anyone else’s face and lecture us about “fiscal responsibility.”