Republican Deficit Hypocrisy

You shouldn't be convinced. Republicans are lying when they say they want to cut the deficit or pay off the debt. You only have to look at the Bush years and Trump's 2016-2020 administration to see increasing deficits every single year, due to tax cuts rather than any sort of spending problem. When they are in power, they dismantle good government and regulations and redistribute American wealth from the poor and middle class up to the wealthy.<a href="https://fiscaldata.t

Anti spending? The deficit has increased under every republican president almost back to ww2. Their two Santa strategy seems to work well confusing people though.

Cutting enough to do what?Address deficit spending? Trump and the GOP do not care about that at all, they're looking at increasing the deficit dramatically.The GOP has done an amazing job selling people on topics like the deficit, trade, big tech and doing the opposite and people still fall for it.

What I don't understand is why they want to cut the debt or the budget. Previous terms have shown that increasing spending and racking up debts isn't leading to loss of polls. Why are Trump and Elon going on this cutting spree instead of doling out tax cuts and increasing pork to their constituents on borrowed money?

You are against any deficit spending?

Actually, nobody makes the debt smaller. They monkey with the deficit, but the debt continues to grow.But your original claim is a naive talking point based upon who happened to be President at the time. Often, the Congress has a lot more to do with what happens spending-wise.Clinton was a good example. The Republicans were the ones who reined in the budget under Clinton, but somehow Clinton liked to talk about how he had "balanced the budget".

Not sure why everyone pointing this out is being downvoted. But we reduced revenue (taxes) while keeping spending the same. So debt goes up.On top of that some emergency situations have also contributed (GFC, COVID) and then and in the Iraq war.Right now they’re proposing a budget that will reduce taxes again, and increase our debt by over $4 trillion.Edit: seriously everyone here knows math, this is math, it is public data, why is it treated this way. Argue the substance of cutting pro

Mostly because the Republicans cried crocodile tears about the deficit when a Democratic president was in office, but have no problem blowing up the deficit when a Republican is in office now or when Bush was in office. We're already over a trillion up in debt in the past year and trillions more expected for the tax giveaway in the next few years. And this is in good times when we should be paying down the debt, unlike the beginning of the decade when the US was in recession.I believe Re

Not really. If this were true, one might expect to see, say, deficit spending temper when Republicans control both houses and the presidency.Republicans just like to put debt into different things, like tax cuts for the rich.Plus a good deal of the “wouldn’t it be nice…” is real-world tested and proven and the “yeah, but…” is nonsense.[edit] this notion is a hold-over from when it was sorta, kinda true, when both parties were still basically trying to make government work well and large

It is misleading to fully assign spending outcomes to the sitting president-- Congress has far more control over spending than the White House. Clinton was anti-deficit but he also had the most conservative Congress in modern times after 1994 sending him appropriations bills. Obama had a similar dynamic after 2010. In both cases GOP Congresses imposed hard spending caps-- in fact, in 1994 they even clawed back spending from 1993.