Clinton-era taxes? How about Clinton-era spending as a baby step toward sanity?

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The usual suspects that seem oblivious to the problem of an infinite money supply problem and on-rushing Weimar Republic sinking of the value of your dollar, are going on talk shows to claim that going to Clinton tax rates will not hurt the economy because there was so much prosperity.

Let’s even skip over the fact that Federal Reserve policies were spinning the economy into a recession in Clinton’s last year or two….

That argument only works if you declare an election like that of 1994 (or 2010 eh?) that “the era of big government is over” like Clinton did, and then implement pro-business policies like Clinton did, and if your budget is the size of Clinton’s, and your national debt is still “as low as” it was during Clinton’s presidency, indulging the oxymoronic use of “low” and “national debt”.

Oh yes, and remember, also, that he did have the “peace dividend”, and avoided getting the USA into the really big and very costly interventionist wars that G.W. Bush and Obama did, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere.

Heck the most radical spending-cutter in Congress in 2012 is (still this month) Ron Paul, and in the campaign he only demanded a return to 2008 spending levels!!!

 

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