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Originally Posted by trainwayne
Perhaps in your wisdom, you can explain how from 1992 until 2000 the country managed to reduce the deficit and seemingly get things into a semblence of order finacially with the tax rates that where in effect under Clinton, yet when the Bush tax cuts for the top wage earners went into effect, we expanded the deficit? Damn, trickle didn't work...AGAIN!
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Thank you for demonstrating and validating my earlier assertion and now proven point that you cannot do what you ask of others. I asked how a question and of course you do not answer.....you divert and head onto something else.
Try again. How can you give a tax cut to 95% of the people when only 67% of them are paying federal income taxes?
Also, since the Bush tax cuts are going to be allowed to expire next year and not be renewed by the Democrats and Obama, is that not a tax increase?
As to Bush, you are correct that government grew more under Republican control than any previous. My question to you then is with that fact verified and vilified by you along with myself and many other Americans, why do you feel the need to defend Obama doing it on a scale that dwarfs what the Republicans and Bush did? If you vilify Bush and Republican for it, then it would be hypocritical of you to support Obama and Democrats for doing it worse AS THEY ARE????
Of course, maybe you do not answer because you concede I am correct but I am giving you another opportunity to answer.
As to why the budget was 'balanced', and I use that loosely because they were still throwing IOU's into the SS piggy bank, it was because the Republicans, at that time, reduced the rates of growth and in many cases eliminated any departmental growth and Clinton signed off on it. The Dubya tax cuts are going to be gone next year and you will find out just how 'rich' those who got them are when you see your income taxes go up.