Originally posted by Cuauhtémoc1520
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But Ronald Reagan did TRY to cut spending. In fact he and his team were so foolish, that they agreed to raise taxes in exchange for spending cuts. The tax increases came immeditely, but those imaginary cuts in spending vanished and the debt went up. Hence why this should be used as a good illustration of why Small Government conservatives should never compromise with Democrat Leftists who offer imaginary 3 to 1 spending cuts for tax increases. Never mind that they shouldn't raise taxes on principle, but in practice it would never get done. Every spending cut that a Democrat proposes is just slowing down the rate of growth over a period of time...which isn't much of anything.
It's like a 180 pound person deciding that they need to go on a diet and lose 10 pounds. But first they go up to 200 pounds and then move back down to 190 and say that they lost 10 pounds.
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