Quote (IceMage @ May 28 2021 03:46pm)
Perhaps if the person has an extremely short-term view of politics. A political party losing can be beneficial for it's long-term health. If the selling point of the Republican party is that they spend less than Democrats, while Democrats are going batshit crazy with spending, it's worth pondering what would happen if voters refused to go along with the Republican party abandoning fiscal sanity. But when so many on the right pretend that a Democrat winning is the end of America, so they'll support Republicans no matter what, there's no self-correction possible.
Republicans in 4 years lost the Presidency, House, and Senate. Is anyone on the right(outside of those who've always been anti-Trump) talking about what went wrong? You can't correct a problem if you don't acknowledge it exists.
I'm going to ignore the silly attack at the end.
It's one of the selling points, but not a very important one for you apparently. Tweets and what is 'presidential behavior' obviously more important to you.
Trumps tax cuts were a one time 'benefit' and it's economic savings at the expense of tax income are somewhere between 1-2 trillion dollars.
Biden's budget plan is 6 trillion dollars for 2022, which is approximately 50% higher than it was in pre-covid recent past. And this is already outside the 10+ trillion dollars that was already spent during Covid.
The difference between the two is the tax-cuts are a one time impact meanwhile the budget spending growth is sticky. 6 Trillion will become the new normal and the baseline for spending. So to compare the two and say it's a wash is to just be ignorant of numbers and scale of the effective impact.
This post was edited by ofthevoid on May 29 2021 07:21am