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The lowest the deficit has been in the past 20 years was the year Obama handed things over to Trump. The lowest it's been in the past 30 years was the year Clinton handed it over to Bush.

Maybe stop giving control of our purse strings to the people digging us into this situation.

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It turns out that the tax-and-spend moniker Democrats were labeled with is infinitely preferable to the spend-and-spend-and-spend behavior Republicans have implemented in practice.

Well, republicans have only been trying to push tax and spend for the last 40+ years.

The problem is Republicans spend (it’s actually super hard to cut government spending, a whole lot of it is very popular or is spending that saves money in other ways) and cut taxes. They’re talking about doing it again. They are full to the eyeballs with shit when they complain about the deficit.

I agree. The Republican Party is kinda doing that whole governing thing wrong, aren't they? I think Trump's actions really did surprise a lot of people.

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