Consume Product

This was written by one of those whiny alphabet soup Jews like Lewis Black who think you can fund an economy on Foucauldian powerknowledge. Democrats lower the deficit. They do this by increasing spending, then increasing taxes by an even greater amount. The result is a lower deficit. Democrats raise the debt more than anybody else. Republicans raise the deficit because they cut spending slightly and then cut taxes more. Democracts regularly increase the tax burden of the middle class, and Republicans regularly soothe the tax burden for C-suites. Democrats like to act like spending more money that isn't theirs will make us not owe money to China anymore, and Republicans like to talk about reducing spending and then not reduce spending.

The number that actually matters is inflation-adjusted net public debt. Nixon put the country on fiat-only and here's what's happened since:

* Under Ford, the debt increased
* Under Carter, the debt increased
* Under Reagan, the debt increased
* Under Bush, the debt increased
* Under Clinton, the debt increased (although only slightly--mostly it was flat during this period)
* Under W. Bush, the debt increased
* Under Obama, the debt increased
* Under Trump, the debt increased
* Under Biden, the debt increased
* Under Trump 2, the debit is increasing

It is true synergy.