The uproar about the national debt and deficit spending kind of falls flat when literally every conservative president since Reagan has made it much, much worse while in office, and the fact that the uproar is weaponized against programs that help fellow citizens rather than those abusing taxpayer money and the government at large.
Compare the national debt to the trillions in offshore accounts and other tax shelters, and then bear witness to the government being at the beck and call of the holders of those hoards of wealth helping them generate it in the first place.
The problem is revenue. Republicans take every chance they get to cut taxes on the richest Americans and Giant Corporations. When it comes to spending the only thing they offer is cuts to programs that benefit middle income and lower income Americans. That is what is unsustainable. The richest Americans control virtually the entire economy. We are at or near the same ratio as during the late 1800s. We simply have to increase taxes on rich people and large corporations. We are seeing record wealth growth among the top 5% of Americans and Record Profits among large corporation. At least these people could try to meet the middle class half way and we could try to get back to more of a ratio we had from WWII to 1980.
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The uproar about the national debt and deficit spending kind of falls flat when literally every conservative president since Reagan has made it much, much worse while in office, and the fact that the uproar is weaponized against programs that help fellow citizens rather than those abusing taxpayer money and the government at large.
Compare the national debt to the trillions in offshore accounts and other tax shelters, and then bear witness to the government being at the beck and call of the holders of those hoards of wealth helping them generate it in the first place.
The problem is revenue. Republicans take every chance they get to cut taxes on the richest Americans and Giant Corporations. When it comes to spending the only thing they offer is cuts to programs that benefit middle income and lower income Americans. That is what is unsustainable. The richest Americans control virtually the entire economy. We are at or near the same ratio as during the late 1800s. We simply have to increase taxes on rich people and large corporations. We are seeing record wealth growth among the top 5% of Americans and Record Profits among large corporation. At least these people could try to meet the middle class half way and we could try to get back to more of a ratio we had from WWII to 1980.