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

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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?
 
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What happened is the continuing resolution and the Omnibus. We need to get back to "regular order."
 
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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?
 
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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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!!!
 
QueafKing seems upset.

Something I said must have struck a nerve.

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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.
 
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.
 
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/
 
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. šŸ‘
 
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