Democrats have a much better record at controlling debt. Whenever Republicans want to reduce spending they also correspondingly decrease revenue with tax cuts, which makes the exercise neutral or negative in terms of debt. But more often republicans merely move spending from things they don;t like spending on (education, health welfare) into things they do like spending money on (defense, law and order, private prisons, farm subsidies) and don't actually reduce spending while giving tax cuts to people who already have way more money than they need.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
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Jimi Hendrix
