…because it isn’t. Conservative economics is so simple I can sum it up in a two words: “save money”. The US since the 1980s or so has embarked on a radical conservative agenda: slashing public goods to less than zero, in order to cut taxes for the super rich, in order to clear the deficit. All this was supposed to make the average person better off. Except, if you look carefully, it wasn…

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Fred
Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Uh….. what US government are you watching? Government deficits have been climbing progressively higher since the 70’s. Obama doubled the debt in 8 years, despite bringing in record taxes.

Government outlays are averaging all time highs, from Medicare public schools. We’re not even a decade removed from multiple trillion dollar federal bailout programs and are still in the midst of expansionist monetary policy.

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