• Voytrekk@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They directly reference the data from the feds, which shows that the direct statement isn’t completely true. It does show that democrats(Clinton in particular) were better about not increasing the deficit.

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      9 months ago

      Well, yeah, it’s never really as simple as all that. Clinton, in particular, has to get most of his budgets past Newt Gingrich in the House. Newt, for all his many, many faults, might have been the last Republican to care about actually balancing the budget, as opposed to just talking about balancing it while cutting taxes.