What happened to the Republican commitment to fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets?

[JohnEngelman]

When Ronald Reagan ran against President Jimmy Carter in 1980 he claimed that he could cut taxes, raise military spending, and balance the budget by 1983 without cutting popular domestic spending programs. All he would need to do would be to cut "waste, fraud, and abuse."

It did not happen of course. Instead, he nearly tripled the national debt.

Now, whenever Republicans have the power to do so they cut taxes (especially for the rich) while raising military spending. Then they use the increase in the national debt in efforts to cut popular domestic spending items.

Edmund Burke was an eighteenth century English statesman and political philosopher. He is often considered to be the founder of Anglo-American conservatism. In his Reflections on the French Revolution he wrote:

"Society is indeed a contract...

"It becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

How would Edmund Burke feel, knowing that the American conservative party advocates that we live off of past achievements, and borrow from the future?

 

[ll74]

No more author attributes, Johnny?..tsk tsk

 

[JohnEngelman]

No more author attributes, Johnny?..tsk tsk

I read real books. Do you have a problem with that?

What I do not do is to copy and paste a long word salad I find on the internet.

 

[Rightguide]

What happened is the continuing resolution and the Omnibus. We need to get back to "regular order."

 

[ll74]

Democrat lunacy happened.

It used to be that teachers taught, soldiers fought and the only successful acts of subversion were coming from the Soviet Union, but now every industry has to be repeatedly retooled after being destroyed by woke idiocy, and usually that retooling comes far past the point of no return so the damage has to be paid for instead of merely compensated by profit.

Was that when America was great?

 

[ll74]

No shit Sherlock

When exactly was that?

 

[Lazaran]

I’m looking forward to that, but Americans have slipped a long way. The founders started shooting over a breakfast beverage tax increase.

I’m not sure Americans have any fight left in them as long as they still have plenty of Big Macs, iPhones, Xbox, and Marvel movies.

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(Quoted for posterity and verity)

Take a look at fucked_a_lot advocating violence against those who refused / refuse to accept the racist, elitist, misogynistic America brought into existence by the founding FATHERS.

JFC

SAD!!!

 

[Lazaran]

QueafKing seems upset.

Something I said must have struck a nerve.



QueafKing

 

[Fuzzy1975]

QueafKing seems upset.

Something I said must have struck a nerve.



QueafKing

If I said that was BoBo, would you agree?

 

[RoryN]

*innocent whistling*

Let's just drop this right here...

Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' is projected to add $3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...-bill-add-3-trillion-debt-cbo-says-rcna220004

 

[73Seahawks]

When Ronald Reagan ran against President Jimmy Carter in 1980 he claimed that he could cut taxes, raise military spending, and balance the budget by 1983 without cutting popular domestic spending programs. All he would need to do would be to cut "waste, fraud, and abuse."

It did not happen of course. Instead, he nearly tripled the national debt.

Now, whenever Republicans have the power to do so they cut taxes (especially for the rich) while raising military spending. Then they use the increase in the national debt in efforts to cut popular domestic spending items.

Edmund Burke was an eighteenth century English statesman and political philosopher. He is often considered to be the founder of Anglo-American conservatism. In his Reflections on the French Revolution he wrote:

"Society is indeed a contract...

"It becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

How would Edmund Burke feel, knowing that the American conservative party advocates that we live off of past achievements, and borrow from the future?

Difference is Reagan never had a trifecta because the Democrats controlled the US House of Representatives throughout his entire Presidency.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Difference is Reagan never had a trifecta because the Democrats controlled the US House of Representatives throughout his entire Presidency.

Anyone who voted for tax cuts for the rich and for more military spending chares responsibility for Reagan's deficits.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The federal government deficit is 20% higher than last year. Deficit Donnie is at work!

US July budget deficit up 20% year-over-year despite record Trump tariff income

The sheep are going to be so agitated. How will they spin Deficit Donnie’s failure?

 

[OldSoldier96]

Monthly Deficit for June 2025

After adjusting for timing effects, the June 2025 deficit was $71 billion—57% lower than last June.

Monthly spending was $32 billion lower (-5%) compared to last June. Major increases in outlays included:

• A $12 billion (10%) increase for Social Security
• A $6 billion (22%) increase in outlays for the Department of Veterans Affairs
• A $5 billion (5%) increase for Medicare
• 
  
• Receipts in the first nine months of FY2025 are $254 billion (7%) higher than at this point last fiscal year. This includes:
  • A $216 billion (7%) increase in individual and payroll tax collections
  • A $26 billion (-7%) decrease in corporate tax receipts, largely because delayed 2023 returns from California businesses impacted by natural disasters shifted some payments into the first quarter of FY2024
  • A $64 billion (38%) increase in receipts from other revenue sources, including a $50 billion (89%) increase in customs duties due to increased tariffs on imported goods, an $11 billion (17%) increase in excise taxes, and a $2 billion (92%) increase in remittances from the Federal Reserve to the Treasury Department

Source: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/deficit-tracker/

 

[MajorRewrite]

Monthly Deficit for June 2025

After adjusting for timing effects, the June 2025 deficit was $71 billion—57% lower than last June.

Monthly spending was $32 billion lower (-5%) compared to last June. Major increases in outlays included:

• A $12 billion (10%) increase for Social Security
• A $6 billion (22%) increase in outlays for the Department of Veterans Affairs
• A $5 billion (5%) increase for Medicare

Source: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/deficit-tracker/

Ignoring the July data won’t make the deficit go away.

 

[MajorRewrite]

I hadn’t realized that the Big Ugly Bill included a time bomb for state government finances.

Starting next October, Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in SNAP costs from the federal government onto states. Some states won’t be able to afford this, and they could be forced to deeply cut or even shutter their SNAP programs altogether, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

“To be crystal clear, what this bill did was create the potential for SNAP programs to no longer exist … in states that cannot afford to?” Rep. Shomari Figures, an Alabama Democrat, asked a panel of state and county social services officials during a congressional hearing in September. Is it correct that under the new cost-sharing arrangement, Figures continued, these states might not have it in their budgets to feed anyone at all, including children and homeless veterans?

“Yes,” officials from Ohio to Wyoming answered, one by one by one.

So right before the midterm elections, states are suddenly going to have billions in new SNAP costs … and some states may just cut the program. Medicaid costs are being dumped on states too.

That’s going to make elections in many states even more interesting.

 

[Chadrone]

Anyone who voted for tax cuts for the rich and for more military spending chares responsibility for Reagan's deficits.

I love the "The problem is that we aren't stealing enough from productrive people, not that we're blowing astronomical ammounts of money on bullshit nobody but a handful of corrupt assholes needs or asked for. " mentality of the left.

You don't give a fuck about the budget or the economy, you just want to shit on anyone with 5 bucks more than you....typical leftist, the politics of ENVY.

 

[AlexBailey]

I love the "The problem is that we aren't stealing enough for productrive people, not that we're blowing astronomical ammounts of money on bullshit nobody but a handful of corrupt assholes needs or asked for. " mentality of the left.

You don't give a fuck about the budget or the economy, you just want to shit on anyone with 5 bucks more than you....typical leftist, the politics of ENVY.

Nice slip, born on third-base Freud boy.

How many $ billions of taxpayer dollars is Trump giving to farmers who he screwed with his tariff wars this year?

And since we aren’t taking as much tax from the rich under the Big Beautiful Bill, just who is paying for those bailouts?

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/12/trump-bails-out-the-farmers-he-kneecapped-with-tariffs-again/

 

[Chadrone]

Nice slip, third-base Freud boy.

Nah typo should read FROM produictive people

Because robbing productive people is all you lefties know how to do.

How many $billions of taxpayer dollars is Trump giving to farmers who he screwed with his tariffs this year?

Should be zero....he didn't screw them, they screwed themselves.

 

[AlexBailey]

Nah typo should read FROM produictive people

Because robbing productive people is all you lefties know how to do.



Should be zero....he didn't screw them, they screwed themselves.

Sure the farmers screwed themselves.

They didn’t want to sell to those foreign markets? They wanted to pay higher prices for Canadian fertilizers?

Go polish your knobs, whiner.

 

[Chadrone]

Sure the farmers screwed themselves.

They decided to monocrop soy/pork for a gubbmint check promised by the CCP or corn for bigOil a market created out of thin air by politics and will be gone the instant a pen is waved in the other direction...... as they are learning.

They literally did that themselves. Nobody forced them to cuck out to big oil or the CCP, they chose to do that for the easy check.

This is a problem that independent farmers who CHOSE NOT TO monocrop for China/BigOil......are not suffering any consiquences of, in fact we're benefitting.

They didn’t want to sell to those foreign markets? They wanted to pay higher prices for Canadian fertilizers?

Of course they did. We all want things.

But wanting something doesn't make it a smart business move.....

Go polish your knobs, whiner.

Says the leftoid shilling for big Ag, big oil and the CCP ....LOL

 

[MajorRewrite]

Go polish your knobs, whiner.

Replying to the Chad thing is counterproductive.

 

[Chadrone]

Replying to the Chad thing is counterproductive.

I'm not buying your bullshit, and you can't actually argue aginst reality it just makes you and yours look as insane as you are .....so that's 100% correct.

 

[JohnEngelman]

I love the "The problem is that we aren't stealing enough from productrive people, not that we're blowing astronomical ammounts of money on bullshit nobody but a handful of corrupt assholes needs or asked for. " mentality of the left.

You don't give a fuck about the budget or the economy, you just want to shit on anyone with 5 bucks more than you....typical leftist, the politics of ENVY.

The politics of envy is potentially the strongest issue the Democrats have. I wish the Democrats were more skilled in exploiting it. Instead, the Democrats emphasize social issues, where the Republicans have the natural advantage.

 

[AlexBailey]

They decided to monocrop soy/pork for a gubbmint check promised by the CCP or corn for bigOil a market created out of thin air by politics and will be gone the instant a pen is waved in the other direction...... as they are learning.

They literally did that themselves. Nobody forced them to cuck out to big oil or the CCP, they chose to do that for the easy check.

This is a problem that independent farmers who CHOSE NOT TO monocrop for China/BigOil......are not suffering any consiquences of, in fact we're benefitting.


Of course they did. We all want things.

But wanting something doesn't make it a smart business move.....



Says the leftoid shilling for big Ag, big oil and the CCP ....LOL

Oh, you mean how farmers had contracts and markets they were producing for until the stable genius started renegotiating them.

Come on, you know how farming is. Right Bot-boy? It’s not something you can change in the middle of a season.

Trump fucked up and now taxpayers are paying for it.


BTW, what’s your bet on when the East wing of the White House is going to be done? Do you honestly believe no taxpayer money is going to be spent on the boondoggle ballroom?



BTW,

Some benefits of mixing ethanol with gasoline:

How Ethanol Improves Combustion:

• Higher Octane: Ethanol naturally raises the octane rating, preventing premature detonation (knocking) and allowing for more efficient engine operation.
• Oxygenation: It contains oxygen, which promotes a more thorough burn, reducing carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) emissions.
• Cooling Effect: Ethanol has a high latent heat of vaporization, cooling the air-fuel charge, making it denser and improving engine performance, especially in boosted engines.
• Faster Flame Speed: Ethanol burns faster than gasoline, improving the overall combustion process and efficiency.

Benefits in the Engine:

• Reduced Emissions: Cleaner burn leads to lower CO, HC, and some other pollutant emissions.
• Prevents Knock: High octane prevents engine knock, protecting the engine.
• Cleaner Fuel System: Ethanol helps keep fuel injectors clean by dissolving deposits.