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Don’t believe your eyes and ears, spending is stable that’s how you end up with 37 trillion in debt. Common sense he’s not common anymore.

By cutting taxes. Republicans have been slashing taxes for decades without cutting spending.

Government is spending money on Bert and Ernie in Baghdad. It’s not the taxes that’s the problem.

It’s almost as if there are two(!) components to deficits. If it isn’t spending, what could the other factor possibly be?

It could be that spending other peoples money is really easy and really wasteful.