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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Are you seriously making this argument?
Incoming and outgoing deficit numbers don't tell you a damn thing. You have to account for revenue if you want to use those numbers. Revenue=taxes. Dems historically raise taxes. Tax and spend.
You could spend $70 gazillion and lower the deficit if you raise taxes enough.
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TBQH, I don't think there's enough fluctuation in the tax rate from year to year to account for the differences EddyBeers noted. You'd be talking about massive raises and cuts to cause those changes without spending increasing or decreasing.
Of course, revenues can increase or decrease because of economic conditions that have nothing to do with taxes. But a better rebuttal to EddyBeers' point would have been that many of those presidents faced a Congress that was controlled by the other party; since the president can't unilaterally set tax and budget policy, the numbers are misleading in that sense.