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Why aren't Republican Doing More Policy That They Actually Want?

Floridafan said:
How does a President spend money? Please be specific as our constitution completely disagrees with you.
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Same way he cuts taxes for the rich.
 
Floridafan said:
From the day Republicans took over congress until the day Obama left office, our debt increased by 8 trillion.
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Spending went down after Republicans took over. Fact.

Your posts are hypocritical at best.
 
Floridafan said:
Congress cut taxes not the president.
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LOL, Ok, I'll let you continue on with your silly fourth grade understanding of the budgeting process.
 
Floridafan said:
Isnt the Republican Party supposed to favor low debt, balanced budgets, and all that good stuff.
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After Reagan, Dubya, and now Trump (with his $1T+ (!) deficits), I think we can definitively answer that question. No.
 
OpportunityCost said:
Because most Republicans want to be left alone by government, not have more rules to follow.
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Is that why they're blowing up the deficit spending? REPUBLICANS = HIGHER DEFICITS.
 
Media_Truth said:
Is that why they're blowing up the deficit spending? REPUBLICANS = HIGHER DEFICITS.
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Maybe you can read the rest of the thread and my multiple responses on this exact issue.
 
OpportunityCost said:
Nah. Lets look at spending.

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And what's your point. GW Bush was the big spender, and he executed the worst presidential pass-on since the Great Depression. Two Wars, Banking/Housing crisis, CEO corruption gone Amuk, Bankrupt American Auto Industry, Severely depressed stock market. Obama had no choice but to clean up his mess for his first 2 years. Then he started reducing spending. Your blind allegiance continues to amaze.
 
NeverTrumpGOP said:
A curious thing, they control the House, the Senate, the Presidency. Yet their signature policy achievement is a tax cut for the wealthy and questionable immigration enforcement. You'd think with the midterms coming they'd be trying to push through as much legislation as possible in case they lose in November. They only seem to be working in the shadows and hiding their crimes instead of working for the American people like they claimed they would.
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It's not always about legislation.

 
Media_Truth said:
And what's your point. GW Bush was the big spender, and he executed the worst presidential pass-on since the Great Depression. Two Wars, Banking/Housing crisis, CEO corruption gone Amuk, Bankrupt American Auto Industry, Severely depressed stock market. Obama had no choice but to clean up his mess for his first 2 years. Then he started reducing spending. Your blind allegiance continues to amaze.
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My point was Democrats increased spending, both baseline and stimulus and Republicans reduced it after 2010. You can quit trying to move the goal posts, I already knew you were going to do that. Presidents don't reduce spending, Congressional budgets and spending legislation does. Bush actually wasn't a big spender if you check his budgets.

I don't have blind allegiance, Im trying to have a factual discussion here. You might try it sometime.
 
OpportunityCost said:
My point was Democrats increased spending, both baseline and stimulus and Republicans reduced it after 2010. You can quit trying to move the goal posts, I already knew you were going to do that. Presidents don't reduce spending, Congressional budgets and spending legislation does. Bush actually wasn't a big spender if you check his budgets.

I don't have blind allegiance, Im trying to have a factual discussion here. You might try it sometime.
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Yeah, how are they doing with that right now?
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-09/republicans-deficits-and-the-two-santa-theory

With his signing of a budget deal Friday morning, a Republican president has now joined forces with a Republican-controlled Congress to increase the projected 2019 deficit from $710 billion to $1.15 trillion. And that's in just two months, the time it took to add spending increases to the effect of the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul enacted in January.
 
Media_Truth said:
Yeah, how are they doing with that right now?
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-09/republicans-deficits-and-the-two-santa-theory

With his signing of a budget deal Friday morning, a Republican president has now joined forces with a Republican-controlled Congress to increase the projected 2019 deficit from $710 billion to $1.15 trillion. And that's in just two months, the time it took to add spending increases to the effect of the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul enacted in January.
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And the goalposts keep on moving.

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NeverTrumpGOP said:
A curious thing, they control the House, the Senate, the Presidency. Yet their signature policy achievement is a tax cut for the wealthy and questionable immigration enforcement. You'd think with the midterms coming they'd be trying to push through as much legislation as possible in case they lose in November. They only seem to be working in the shadows and hiding their crimes instead of working for the American people like they claimed they would.
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Same reason Democrats didn't when they had all the power. At the end of the day they want the people divided over political issues to justify their position and give them something to rail on during campaign season.
 
Tax cuts, de-regulation, judges. That was the Republican leadership's goals. What they tell their rabble to get their support...lol...everyone knows that's just pillow talk baby!

Because right wing media convinced them that beating crooked Hillary and undoing illegitimate slenderman, were goals worth fighting for.
They did that, so they are just on deck now...waiting for the next set of adults to inch our nation forward, so they can then have a new enemy that's more current than "but her emails!!" They are trying the "But Mueller/Witch Hunt/No Kulooshin!", but they are concerned how that story ends, so it's kind of half-hearted.
 
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