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But we are. And the people voted us "liberals" (i.e. Democrats and Republicans) into power. So why don't you think we should pay for our expenditures?
Are you referring to Reagan? This is exactly what I'm talking about. Reagan was not a cut-taxes-and-cut-spending president. Reagan was a cut-taxes-and-increase-spending president. Just like every other president in recent memory.
What on earth are you talking about? Please back this absurd assertion with economic data.
I've given this some thought and I think you make a valid point: only a small minority of conservatives are tax-less spend-less kinds of folks, and I'm not one of them.
I support lower taxes because it increases a household’s disposable income and increases tax revenue: more money for the government.
I also support lots of government spending. No, I don't support a host of new programs or pork projects like saving a brown mouse in SF (Obama’s stimulus). I support spending what is genuinely needed to maintain existing infrastructure, the military, social security, and similar, and then taking everything that's left and paying down our debt.
That's the nature of what Ragan did. He lowered taxes to increase revenue and then spent the rais he gave the national budget with those tax cuts on needed government expenses.
For the life of me I don't see President Obama's administration making any attempt to do this. The left (and I think it's fair to speak with an air of partisanship here as the left currently has control of both houses and the Presidency), is reducing their cash flow by increasing taxes and spending more money then they even had originally.
This, IMO, makes absolutely no sense.
It's exactly like taking a significant pay cut at work and then going on a shopping spree.
I support the government having a large income, living as far below it's means as it can without sacrificing needed expenses, and paying off our debt asap.