There was no mandate for two tax cuts, two wars and PartD.
And my statement was nto about two tax cuts, two wars and PartD (since they where not the biggest drivers of increased spending and thus increased deficits), but rather about entitlements.
Once again - "There was a large increase in spending. Some of it under previously passed laws (but then most of those laws where passed when Democrats where in power), some not." The previously passed laws where laws, mostly from decades ago, that created expensive entitlements which account for the biggest part of federal spending.
Or to get back to the main point, if we had never cut taxes, didn't have the wars, and didn't have Medicare Part D, we still would not have had $5tril in surpluses.
Your pushing those things as having created a $10tril swing in the government budget balance over 10 years, or a trillion per year, but those items simply don't add up to that much (esp. when you consider the fact that cutting taxes reduces revenue less than a static analysis of the tax cut would suggest, since lower taxes distort and discourage economic activity less). |
