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Originally Posted by bradclark1
No, but it sure as hell beats what it is now. From 1996 to 2001 the federal debt dropped nearly 1 trillion dollars. From 2001 to 2007 the debt rose 5 trillion dollars. This isn't about voting Democrat or Republican it's about fiscal responsibility. It's about paying as you go or as close to it as a goverment can, not "I have a checkbook and I can spend as long as I have checks". It's as I've said countless times and voted countless times it's not the party I'll vote for it's who has the right message be it Republican, Democrat or Independent. But if a thread turns into a Republicans are smart and Democrats are stupid thread I'll do my best to make Republicans look even stupider.
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And they'll return and make Dems look even stupider than that, when the truth is they are both equally stupid in their own ways. Unfortunately it is political one upsmanship just like that from both sides that has gotten us to the state we're in now.
We haven't had a remotely unifyng president since Reagan and even he had problems with it.
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I don't see how that would be but even if so that doesn't give reason for mindless spending, being in a war, and then turn around and cut taxes. It doesn't make sense to me. The return isn't there and it was proven it wasn't before it was enacted.
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The tax cut is not the source of the problem, governmental spending is. If the Bush tax cuts had never been implemented the budget deficit would be just as big as it is now.
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To nullify or "cancel" specific provisions of a bill, usually budget appropriations so I would take it that it was open to other uses also.
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Yeah the Supreme Court viewed the LIV as a separation of powers issue. Congress can't give up it's "power of the purse strings" without a constitutional amendment.