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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
Oh no we haven't!
Your boy is in, your folks are running Congress - you own it leftie 
That said Trump didn't care about the deficit. Heck even Reagan only kept it from increasing.
Years ago here I researched the so called 'surplus' from a few years back by looking at total government debt. There might, maybe, have been a 12 month period were it actually went down but it didn't fit into the fiscal year. Again, this was looking at government debt. If there was a real surplus it would've gone down. Politicians and smoke and mirrors, go figure.
It was close though.
The debt clock says every taxpayer owes $240k now. Up from $148k in 2012 and estimated $302k in 2026. Although I wonder what figure they're using for inflation. |
Most of the
Total Government Debt was accumulated by Repubs.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news...bt/5891161001/