Originally Posted by
Craig234
That sounds reasonable and helps you sleep at night, but you're wrong.
We had 12 years of hugely inflated deficits under Reagan/Bush. When he became president, he submitted a budget he specifically said was for deficit reduction - it included a tax increase on the rich. Every Republican said it would cause great harm, and it passed without a vote to spare and no Republican votes, and did the opposite of what Republicans had said, in the best test of the two parties in decades.
The first two years of Clinton's presidency, Democrats controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress, and the deficit decreased the same consistent amount it continued to the rest of his presidency. Republicans not only get zero credit for those two years, they fought tooth and nail to PREVENT the deficit reduction policies. So the best that can be said for them is that they didn't break the deficit reduction the next six years. Republicans just want to re-write history to claim credit for it.
That doesn't even deserve a response. People making well into six figures would suffer, while the benefits to those getting them, the poor, don't need them, you say.
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