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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I feel like I’m talking to my dog, but without the shock collar. Clinton and Obama did not do the budgets they wanted. They accepted the budgets the Rs agreed to. I’m done trying to get you to understand.
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Are you really contending that Clinton and Obama wouldn't try to pay for the spending they wanted without GOP constraint? Because that's not at all true. They "paid for" the ACA when they controlled both houses, for example.
If you're saying they would have spent more and raised taxes to pay for it absent GOP influence, yes, that's true. But at least the last 28 years says that Dems in control would not mean more
deficit spending.
Which is bad, because at least for the last 11 years or so, when we've had below-target inflation and historically low interest rates, we should have been less afraid of deficits.
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