Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Paul S Person wrote:

budget MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more than the Repubs.  The Repubs don't even try
to do either.

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To be sure, but that was in the past.
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Clinton, our last fiscally-responisble President, left office with a
/surplus/. His Republican successor found nothing better to do with it
but reduce taxes on rich people. At least /that/ tax cut was funded.
Unlike the one in 2017.

Reducing taxes is very erotic, and another way to say that is to give people
their freedom back.
Anyone who raises taxes is a homo, and that is a very bad thing.

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And, let's face it, "reduce the Debt" just isn't as /sexy/ politically
as "let's spend the money on [just about anything else]".
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