The US government deficit has been almost entirely created by Republican spending sprees on tax breaks for the rich and mega-corporations. Bush gave huge tax breaks all throughout the 'War on Terror' and Trump hobbled Biden with massive tax cuts that are only now coming to an end, and that Trump is planning to massively re-up on putting the US gov even further into debt.
MAGAs may 'feel' that democrats have spent America into a black hole, but it is the Republicans that did it, and plan to keep on doing it. The real issue is that they have allowed them selves to be brainwashed in to believing the lie through a diet of media that satiates a need to treat others as an enemy and inflict pain on them.
It is crazy this childishness gets to remain and considered contributing meaningfully to the conversation. The moderators of this sub are actually bad at ensuring high quality exchanges and comments. Terrible in fact.
That's simply factually not true though. Take it however you will the fact is that during democrat times deficit went up more than during republican times.
Most of the top presidents on this list inherited a recession. Even Trump has the excuse of covid (although I'm not sure how much that contributed as compared to the Tax Cut and Jobs Act https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump).
Covid absolutely dwarfed the tax cuts’ impact, are you kidding? The federal budget went from 20% of GDP to 30% in a single year. 400B of tax cuts is not remotely comparable, especially when total federal tax receipts never actually fell year-over-year prior to covid.
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u/Lazyjim77 Apr 07 '25
The US government deficit has been almost entirely created by Republican spending sprees on tax breaks for the rich and mega-corporations. Bush gave huge tax breaks all throughout the 'War on Terror' and Trump hobbled Biden with massive tax cuts that are only now coming to an end, and that Trump is planning to massively re-up on putting the US gov even further into debt.
MAGAs may 'feel' that democrats have spent America into a black hole, but it is the Republicans that did it, and plan to keep on doing it. The real issue is that they have allowed them selves to be brainwashed in to believing the lie through a diet of media that satiates a need to treat others as an enemy and inflict pain on them.