| HappySqurriel said: So saving $200 Billion after you have already gone in deficit $2 Trillion, will (likely) add another couple trillion in debt through increased spending on healthcare and further "stimulus", and instituting the largest regressive tax increase in US history now makes you fiscally conservative? |
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. run a deficit every year they were in office? I don't think we have had a fiscally conservative President since Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter.
Not to mention it is pretty much impossible to avoid running a deficit during a recession unless you just shut the government down entirely and stop providing essential services.
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