Like I said, government spending causes deficits - not tax reductions. Thanks for affirming that...Quote from Jerry030:
The Iraq war could not have happened without deficit spending.
If made to actually pay for a war to bring democracy to countries with lots of oil, the nation would have booted Bush out of office for gross idiocy, since it's much cheaper just to buy the oil then to spend the next 100 years fighting for it.

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Like I said, government spending causes deficits - not tax reductions. Thanks for affirming that...![]()
You don't read too well do you? I said revenues went up (that's what you call "income"). It has been excessive spending (that's what you call "expense") that has caused the deficits of both the eighties and zeros.Quote from Jerry030:
Actually the difference between income and expense causes deficits or bounced checks in a checking account.
What you tax or how tax receipts are spent is an unrelated issue.
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Again - tax reductions on a national level increase government revenues through economic stimulation. Stopping deficit spending stops deficits.
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They portray themselves as "friends of Bush" so that the US will be their ultimate protector... at our expense... and the other countries won't have to waste their resources on military and defense.