I have been for cutting spending since the mid 90’s, so I’m not sure what your point there is.
My point is that you don't know why you want to cut spending, nor do you know what cutting spending's net effect on the economy will be. If you cut back spending, and dont' replace it from another source,
what is the net effect on the economy? The answer is
contraction. Cutting spending results in an economic contraction if you're not making up that spending elsewhere. So when you argue stupidly for spending cuts, you're arguing for economic contraction and a recession.
IYou cannot continue to spend and spend and spend and not expect it to bite you in the butt in the future. I also didn’t say anyone purposed raising taxes to 90%, I said that even if we raised it to 90% we could not payoff the debt with our current spending, quit trying to change what I am saying.
First of all, what is the significance and economic impact if the United States pays off its debt entirely? Let's start there and see if you
really know your shit, or if you're just some punk poseur posturing on a message board either because you're paid to, or because you need attention. Secondly,
we could have paid off our debt but you all cut taxes in 2001, turned a record surplus into four record deficits that doubled the debt in 8 years when if you did
literally nothing, you could have paid off the debt in 9 years. Conservatives are so terrible they cannot even do
nothing right.
So you screech about debt, without knowing the first thing about it, because you want to scare people into accepting cuts to the essential services you oppose on a purely ideological level. That's even assuming you've put thought into your positions, which it doesn't seem like you did.
We quit spending we will hurt for the short term however no President or Congress member will purpose that because the economy will slow down for awhile until the debt is paid down and then you will see huge growth.
Ah, so now you're admitting that cutting spending hurts "in the short term"...OK, so now at least you admit tax cuts contract an economy. Now what you have yet to prove is that when you cut federal spending, from where are you making up that drop in demand? Do you think that the economy will magically sort itself out? You do know that the only way to come out of a recession (caused by a contracting economy, caused by spending cuts) is to increase spending. So your argument is, and always has been, that cutting taxes increases spending.
AND THAT'S JUST NOT TRUE AT ALL. Which makes it
dogma, and makes you a
zealot.