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Originally posted by Spanky
Yes to end a recession, you cut taxes and increase spending. Roosevelt kept trying to keep the balance in budget. He increased spending, but in order to pay for it he increased taxes on the rich. Therefore he never pulled us out of the depression. WWII forced the government to increase spending dramatically and it pulled us out of the depression. Bush learned this lesson, and applied it when he got to office in 2000.
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He's still applying it, even though the economy has turned a corner. Or was that Iraq? I keep forgetting.
