You're making a couple of fundamental errors.
Number one, government spending is not a synonym for economic growth. Particularly when they're spending money that does not exist. This has become pretty damn obvious over the past few years, except for a few remaining lunatics who say the only problem is we didn't borrow or print up a couple of trillion more dollars.
Number two, the Republicans are not looking for tax cuts, they're fighting against the massive tax increases the Democrats want to enact in the teeth of a recession. Does anyone remember Obama's speech when he extended all the Bush tax cuts?
I have proven a dozen times that our problem is not insufficient revenue, it's too damn much spending and an economy reeling under four years of Democratic policies. The revenues of 2007, under exactly the same tax laws we have right now, were an all-time record, exceeding those of the previous peak surplus year 2000 by over $100 billion. But the spending grew faster. Those same 2007 revenues would have paid the entire 1976 Federal budget twice over (all constant dollars).
Obama's last budget, analyzed by the CBO, which included the tax increases he wanted, has ever-increasing deficits as far as the analysis goes, with none of them less than $750 billion and peaking out well over the trillion-dollar mark. Remember Bush's $400 billion deficit, and how it was received by the same people who seem to have no problem with trillion dollar deficits?
Revenues in 2021 in this CBO analysis peak at $4.6 trillion dollars. Over twice current revenues. Remember, Obama's budget included the tax increases. And thanks to the insane spending, that year still produces a $1.2 trillion deficit.
Oh, damn, am I bothering people with those unpleasant facts again?
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