When the GOP took over Congress in January 2015, the federal deficit was $439 billion. They immediately set to work doubling it.
Budget deficit smashes $1 trillion mark, the highest in seven years
When Trump was sworn in, the federal debt was $19.9 trillion.
As of this moment:
Trump: I will eliminate U.S. debt in 8 years
This past fiscal year, Trump spent more than anyone in the history of the Universe. He exceeded Obama's worst year of spending by a trillion dollars.
So much for being the party of small government.
Before you try to claim it isn't Trump's fault for some reason, you should know that I will find your posts where you blamed Obama for every penny of the debt accrued on his watch.
Before you try to say "Let me know when he's got more debt than Obama" bullshit hypocrisy, remember that you pseudocons started in on Obama's spending habit right at the beginning. You did not wait until he had beaten Bush's record.
So i guess all you're left with is to blame darkies and Muslims.
What is your plan to fix the problem?
I've posted my plan literally hundreds of times, if not thousands. Probably thousands.
But what the hell, I'll do it again.
1. Eliminate all tax expenditures. This alone would save $1.4 trillion a year, providing a surplus. Then we can cut tax rates for everyone and pay down the debt. Once the debt is paid off, we can lower tax rates even more. Added bonus: Entities earning identical incomes would pay identical taxes! Extra added bonus: Special interests would no longer be able to bribe politicians to put tax expenditures in the tax code, thus removing the incentive to bribe them. Instant campaign finance reform.
2. Raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility age to 70, and index to 9 percent of the population going forward. We are living DECADES longer than our ancestors. We should be working longer. Common sense.
It's very, very simple to balance the budget, lower tax rates, and pay off the debt. But our crooked politicians have the gullible rubes' attention getting all hot and bothered about Mexicans.
You understand that the federal budget rises automatically every year do t you?
if we dont reduce spending you will never raise taxes high enough to balance the budget much less pay down the debt
I bet you thought you had me, didn't you. You thought I didn't have a plan. Too bad for you.
As for deficits, they were DECREASING under Obama, right up until the GOP got the reins of Congress again. Then they started INCREASING.
Then Trump came along and DOUBLED the deficit. Together, the GOP and Deficit Donald more than doubled the deficit.
Trump exacerbated the deficit by increasing spending and cutting taxes without a way to pay for the tax cut.
And the last time the GOP owned Congress and the White House under Bush, they took a balanced budget and blew it all to hell.
You have to be one very special retard to believe the GOP's horseshit about being for balanced budgets and small government.
ACTIONS speak far louder than WORDS, and yet the rube herd STILL hasn't woken up to the fact they are being massively hoaxed.
We get the politicians we deserve.