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What should be done about the economy? Republicans claim to have the answer: slash spending and cut taxes. What they hope voters won’t notice is that that’s precisely the policy we’ve been following the past couple of years. Never mind the Democrat in the White House; for all practical purposes, this is already the economic policy of Republican dreams.
The NYT is an arm of the Democrat Party in print. No surprise here at all.
Republicans never wanted a vast Great Society debacle or to grow government employees for no reason by 900% as a percentage of the population.
The mess is caused from Democrats giving the Treasury away for the vote for decades and the power they give the Teacher's union.
What should be done about the economy? Republicans claim to have the answer: slash spending and cut taxes. What they hope voters won’t notice is that that’s precisely the policy we’ve been following the past couple of years. Never mind the Democrat in the White House; for all practical purposes, this is already the economic policy of Republican dreams.
We've been slashing spending and cutting taxes? Really? Where?
We've gone from $3T to $3.8T a year in spending. not a cut.
And while some taxes have been cut, others have been increased, like the $700B in new taxes in Obamacare.
The NYT is an arm of the Democrat Party in print. No surprise here at all.
Republicans never wanted a vast Great Society debacle or to grow government employees for no reason by 900% as a percentage of the population.
The mess is caused from Democrats giving the Treasury away for the vote for decades and the power they give the Teacher's union.
Ronald Reagan was a "small government" republican. He is also the record holder for...
1- Highest rate of growth in debt (287% over two terms).
2- Largest federal government payroll (3.11 million at the end of his second term, and at a time the population of the country was substantially lower).
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And while some taxes have been cut, others have been increased, like the $700B in new taxes in Obamacare.
Let us hope that democrats actually include a plan to pay for their programs, as opposed to $800B Medicare reform of 2003 that republican believe need not be paid for. And, considering that the federal government does spend nearly $900B on health care, and gets less than a third of it from taxes, it is only fiscally responsible to have the money to pay for what you spend. No?
The Republican economy is what we're still struggling through.
Obama isn't blameless, though. In 2009/10 he had an opportunity to repeal the Bush tax cuts and to address the economy with an allied congress. Instead, he agreed to extend the Bush policies in a failed effort to try to gain some kind of "bipartisanship." Then spent those two years concentrating on his health care legislation.
The economy continued to lag, and his democratic congress was defeated in 2010.
The current teabag congress has stubbornly blocked any attempts at economic recovery. And they'll never cooperate with the president on anything substantive. So, what we have currently is exactly the Republican economy we had when Bush left office.
Enjoy it, conservatards. And throw your support behind the guy who specialized in shutting down manufacturers and laying off thousands.
Ronald Reagan was a "small government" republican. He is also the record holder for...
1- Highest rate of growth in debt (287% over two terms).
The current GOP controlled house would like to challenge and object:
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which took office in January 2011, has enacted federal spending bills under which the national debt has increased more in less than one term of Congress than in the first 97 Congresses combined. Source
LOL. That is what the dems are gonna run with it's all the republicans fault?? So it was Bush's fault when the democrats controlled congress and spending went looney and now its the republicans fault when they control the house. Keep spewing that nonsense as only the swooners are buying it.
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The Republican Economy
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